The gentoo build removes the wizard and uses hunspell instead. My personal view is these suck big time and I would rather have the proper OO ones for en_AU. What happened to the policy of not mucking with upstream if at all possible?
BillK On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 08:32 +0200, Thierry de Coulon wrote: > 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 > -- William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home in Perth!
