On Tuesday 19 August 2008, Graham Murray wrote: > I have a similar problem. I have installed and selected dictionaries, > but openoffice will only allow me to select English as the language for > spell checking.
I don't know what version of OOo you are using and I don't run it on Gentoo now so I don't know if there is anything special, but AFAIK you have to *install* the dictonaries from "inside" OpenOffice. You can check in your home directory (for me in .000-2.0/user/wordbook) what dictionaries are installed. Specialy check the file dictionary.lst: if your dictionary is not correctly listed, OOo will not give you the possibility to use it. For example, I have this: # 23.09.2007 09:23:16 # 23.09.2007 09:23:24 # 23.09.2007 09:23:49 DICT fr FR fr_FR DICT fr CH fr_FR DICT de DE de_DE HYPH en GB hyph_en_GB HYPH fr FR hyph_fr_FR HYPH fr CH hyph_fr_FR HYPH de DE hyph_de_DE THES en GB th_en_US_v2 THES fr FR th_fr_FR_v2 THES fr CH th_fr_FR_v2 THES de DE th_de_DE_v2 # 23.09.2007 09:29:44 DICT en US en_US HYPH en US hyph_en_US THES en US th_en_US_v2 You can either modify this file by hand, or use OpenOffice to install the missing dictionaries (these should be a macro for that on their site, or some versions had a wizard if I remeber well). Thierry