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Re: OpenOffice.org - how to install additional languages?



On Saturday 02 April 2011 02:39:03 Scott Ferguson wrote:
> On 02/04/11 09:00, Lisi wrote:
> > On Friday 01 April 2011 16:02:53 Camaleón wrote:
> >> On Fri, 01 Apr 2011 16:48:25 +0200, Klistvud wrote:
> >>> Dne, 01. 04. 2011 16:40:37 je Camaleón napisal(a):
> >>>> Check your "thesaurus" packages (dpkg -l | grep -i thesaurus) and look
> >>>> for the OOo's italian one ("-i10n" packages are mostly for the UI -
> >>>> localization-).
> >>>
> >>> ii  libmythes-1.2-0
> >>> 2:1.2.1-1                         simple thesaurus library ii
> >>> openoffice.org-thesaurus-en-us
> >>> 1:3.2.1-2                         English Thesaurus for OpenOffice.org
> >>> ii  openoffice.org-thesaurus-it
> >>> 2.0.7.gh.deb1-1.1                 Italian Thesaurus for OpenOffice.org
> >>> 2
> >>>
> >>> It's installed, apparenly...
> >>
> >> How weird :-?
> >>
> >> Well, if we attend to this notice:
> >>
> >> http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Dictionaries
> >>
> >> "(...)	IMPORTANT NOTE: From OpenOffice.org 3.0 on the dictionary wizard
> >> is no longer available -- All new dictionaries are now available via the
> >> Extensions Repository."
> >>
> >> You may try the extension (as suggested) and check if that works:
> >>
> >> http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/project/Dict_it_IT
> >>
> >> Greetings,
> >>
> >> --
> >> Camaleón
> >
> > And what about English English??  Surely a reasonable concept, but:
> >
> > Dutch	Nederlands	Dutch spelling and hyphenation Dictionary
> > Engligh	English	Chemistry Dictionary
> > English		English dictionaries with fixed dash handling and new ligature
> > and phonetic suggestion support
> > English (Australian)	English (Australian)	English Australian Dictionary
> > English (Canadian)	English (Canadian)	Canadian English Spell Checking,
> > Hyphenation and Thesaurus
> > English (New Zealand)	English (New Zealand)	English New Zealand
> > Dictionary English (South African)	English (South African)	South African
> > English spell checking dictionary
> > English (US)	English (US)	US English Spell Checking Dictionary
> > Esperanto	Esperanto	Esperantilo - spell check, grammar checker and
> > thesaurus for Esperanto language
> >
> > (Lines before and after shown to illustrate that I have not simply
> > omitted it. It actually belongs between Canada and New Zealand.)
> >
> > When is English English going to get a look in??  I work in OOo without a
> > spell checker because I am so fed up with being told that honor is right
> > and honour is wrong, fantasize is right and fantasise is wrong.  Etc. 
> > And I like to use a spell checker because I am a lousy typist and an even
> > worse proof-reader.
> >
> > My lovely Kmail spell checker just tried to correct honor and fantasize!!
> >
> > US, OK.  I don't like it, but they are numerous.  But Australian,
> > Canadian, New Zealand and South Africa get a mention and we don't.  It is
> > called English. Surely the English English should get a look in??
> >
> > Lisi
>
> openoffice.org-l10n-en-gb

Thanks for the help, but that is already installed.  I installed it when I 
installed OOo.

Lisi


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