b.haezewindt wrote:
Hi !
I am a retired French teacher/lecturer and I wish to create free readers in
French out of copyright- free texts.
In order to do so, I am trying to get existing texts to be "proofread"
through a proofing tool made up of a limited corpus of words (1500 words for
Basic French level One and 3000 words for level Two). Proofing any given
text with either limited words vocabularies, I expect that the words not
belonging to basic French will be highlighted and I shall change them for
words which exist in the limited corpus or rewrite in a simpler way the
sentence they appear in.
I have created two text files in the Open Office 3 proofing tool, called FF1
and FF2 (Fundamental French 1 and 2) and placed them in the appropriate
folder "Open Office 3 Wordbook". I have pasted 1300 words and 3500 words
respectively in the text files, FF1 and FF2.
When I want to "proof" any given text, I cannot activate the basis French
"dictionaries".
Can you help?
I think my idea could be of some use to any modern language tutor wishing to
provide simplified materials which could interest their students, be it as a
group or individually.
I hope you can help.
Best regards
Bernard Haezewindt
Have you actually got the French dictionary installed? You can see like
this:
* go to Tools>Options>Languages>Language Settings
* under "Default language for documents" scroll down/up till you see
"French (France)". If this does *not* have a small blue tick
(check mark) next to it then the relevant dictionary is not
installed. You need to install it (see below).
* If the dictionary is installed, select it and, possibly, tick "For
the current document only"
* Spell checking in French should now work.
To install a new dictionary:
* go to Tools>Extension Manager and click "Get more extensions
online ...".
* When the Extensions web page opens, click Dictionaries
* find the dictionary you want and click its link
* select Open with OpenOffice
* the dictionary will be installed
* close OpenOffice *and* the Quickstarter
* when you open OpenOffice again the dictionary will be available as
above.
--
Harold Fuchs
London, England
