On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 10:19 +0100, Paul William Brown wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jonathon Coombes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 29 June 2005 23:26 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [discuss] Version 2 Thesaurus > > On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 17:12 +0300, Reg Kennedy wrote: > > Could we please have a Thesaurus that works in UK English? I enjoy using > > Open Office but I find the lack of a UK Thesaurus quite an irritation. > > A related problem is that in the Options/Writing Aids/edit modules, > > Danish is selected and won't be moved!! > > Hope you can solve these issues in Version 2. > > Jonathon's direction to the mindmeld site was very usefel. I have now > activated the thesaurus for my UK English install of OOo. It works, > but I have noticed that some of the meanings and synonyms are American > spellings rather than British, e.g. hue = color; respect = honor. I > have already changed the language of my program to UK English. The > spell checker works in UK English. Is there a way to resolve this?
Hi Paul, Yes, this was a work-around based on the US English thesaurus that was available. You have two options for a "UK" Thesaurus - first you can find a UK-spelling thesaurus and change the format to suit OOo, or you can edit the thesaurus file to change the incorrect spellings to a UK spelling. I would probably opt for the second option. The reason I use this as a work around is that you can use the thesaurus to find similar words, and then use the correct (UK) dictionary to do the spellchecking and correct them. I don't think it would matter to much to have the US spelling and then change them on a final run of the UK spellchecker. Regards Jonathon -- OOo Tips (RSS) - http://mindmeld.cybersite.com.au/tips.rss OOo Knowledgebase - http://mindmeld.cybersite.com.au/ Cybersite Consulting - http://www.cybersite.com.au/ Training4Linux - http://www.training4linux.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
