Hi! I have already the French dictionary (96000 words) installed and it is working fine. What I need to do is find its location on the computer and replace it initially by a new French(FF1) proofing tool of only 1500 basic words. By doing so, when proofing any text, all the words which are not part of the basic French dictionary will be highlighted. I have placed FF1 in C;\Users\User\appdata\Roaming\OpenOffice.org\3\User\Wordbook. However, when I follow your instructions, I get the various French dictionaries but no French(FF1). It looks like I should place this limited dictionary somewhere else. Thanks for your help. Best regards, Bernard Haezewindt UK
-----Original Message----- From: Harold Fuchs [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 12 February 2010 19:11 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [discuss] Proofing tool 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
