Hi John, > I'm using ooo3 on opensuse 11.0 > > The Thesaurus item in Tools-Language menu is greyed out, so cannot be used. > > I've checked in > Tools-Options-Language_Settings-Writing_aids-Openoffice_Thesaurus - edit, and > there is no thesaurus listed when the language is set to British or Canadian > English, only when set to American English, which then also changes the > spellchecker, which I do not want to do. > > I've checked in the extensions repository, but there is no British English > thesaurus listed there either. > > Is it not possible to use a thesaurus for British English?
Please check with "Toools/Extension Manager" if there is an extension named "English spelling and hyphenation dictionaries and thesaurus" installed. If not it is a problem of your distribution since it does not make use of extensions. The OOo installation distributed via www.openoffice.org has a thesaurus for English-GB in the pre-installed extension for English. However, as it already was the case in previous OpenOffice versions the one to be actually used was the Enhlish-US thesaurus. English-GB and English-ZA thesaurus were (and currently still are) just redirections to the English-US thesaurus. If you have a look at http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Dictionaries you can see that the very same thesaurus is intended to be used with English-US AND English-GB. Thus the redirection should be no problem in itself. I think that your distribution is sharing the old-style plain data files with other apps but is lacking the redirection from English-GB and English-ZA to the English-US thesaurus (and the very same problem will probably happen for other dictionaries as well!). Therefore you should contact your distributor. A possible solution should be to create respective named soft links to achieve the missing redirections. Regards, Thomas --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
