On Saturday 05 October 2002 5:55 am, Buchan Milne wrote:
> On Sat, 5 Oct 2002, Vox wrote:
> > Carfield Yim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > Hi all, I have installed the mandrake version rpm package of
> > > OpenOffice. However, the package don't contain any dictionary files.
> > > Where can I find the dictionary file and install?
> >
> >   urpmi OpenOffice.org-l10n-<twolettercodeoflanguageyouwant>
> >
> >   Vox
>
> Actullay, try:
>
> # urpmi myspell
>
> and then select your language. OpenOffice.org requires a myspell, so you
> probably have one installed already, you might want to use Software
> Manager to search for myspell, and choose additional dictionaries.
>
> But, please remember that this is not a support list, and your post was
> not a bug report, but seems very much like a support question. There are
> more appropriate lists for that.
>
> Regards,
> Buchan

Actually, I believe this *is* a bug.  I've installed 9.0 final three times and 
each time spell checking in OpenOffice.org was broken until I manually 
installed a US English myspell (which newbies certainly wouldn't know to do).  
It doesn't seem likely that OO.o should have broken spell-checking 
intentionally.  Maybe it's just a problem for US English installations.  I'm 
not sure.

The most serious aspect of this is that OO.o doesn't TELL the user that 
spelling is broken.  I could set Autocheck to "yes" and it didn't complain, 
it just didn't do anything.  I could manually order a spellcheck, and it 
didn't complain, it just didn't work (as if there were no spelling errors in 
the document, even if the document was all gibberish).

Again, this definitely sounds like a bug to me.  =)

Regards,
Rob

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