[one] solution found (Was: [kl...@thought.org: Re: Openoffice3 and aspell])
- Forwarded message from Gary Kline kl...@thought.org - Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2010 23:41:00 -0800 From: Gary Kline kl...@thought.org Subject: Re: Openoffice3 and aspell To: Neil Short nesh...@yahoo.com Cc: Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org The main reason I upgraded to OOo-311 was to have a functional spellchecker. I can't find any, even tho but clicking around I found ``en_US.oxt'' which is a zip file. The HElp file does not jibe with what's there in the File - Wizards ... . Anyway, Adam, the extension you listed turns out to be the file I downloaded. How-to install the thing and get it working!? gary ___ To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org - End forwarded message - About an hour ago things started working, and this time I made notes. ((__NOTE__: The thesaurus stuff is 28.0MB and harder to retrieve; I'll try later.)) Here is a cut and paste of my notes on getting en_US.oxt to install and work: Left mouse click on Insert top bar, go down to File at the last entry of the dropdown. [it may take several seconds.] A widget/window/dialogue will open in your cwd with a list of files that should include the spell-checking file, en_US.oxt. Scroll down the list and click on this file. Then click the Insert button on the dialog. You may need to restart OOo at least once until the checker starts underlining misspelled words. If anyone onlist can find WiRWib.oxt, the thesaurus file, I may be able to make it available on a server somewhere in the States. -gdk -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 7.79a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Openoffice3 and aspell
On Fri, 1 Jan 2010 20:00:28 -0800 (PST) Neil Short nesh...@yahoo.com replied: Does it include a thesaurus? Until at least recently there was no English (American) language thesaurus. BTW, have fun with the 'extensions'. I have seen grown men cry trying to get them installed correctly in FreeBSD; much less get them to work correctly. If you have any other word processor available, irregardless of OS, I would strongly recommend using it. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com |=== |=== |=== |=== | I look at life as being cruise director on the Titanic. I may not get there, but I'm going first class. Art Buchwald ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Openoffice3 and aspell
On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 06:22:13AM -0500, Jerry wrote: On Fri, 1 Jan 2010 20:00:28 -0800 (PST) Neil Short nesh...@yahoo.com replied: Does it include a thesaurus? Until at least recently there was no English (American) language thesaurus. BTW, have fun with the 'extensions'. I have seen grown men cry trying to get them installed correctly in FreeBSD; much less get them to work correctly. If you have any other word processor available, irregardless of OS, I would strongly recommend using it. I use Softmaker Office; the Linux binary works fine on FreeBSD. It's closed source and you've got to pay for it, which turns most people off. But if you can get past those two characteristics, it's a wonderful office suite, and the word processor has both dictionary and thesaurus. It's furthermore extremely fast, especially compared to OO.o. www.softmaker.de ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Openoffice3 and aspell
On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 1:41 AM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 08:00:28PM -0800, Neil Short wrote: --- On Fri, 1/1/10, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com wrote: From: Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Openoffice3 and aspell To: Neil Short nesh...@yahoo.com Date: Friday, January 1, 2010, 7:27 PM On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 5:58 PM, Neil Short nesh...@yahoo.com wrote: An extension? Mine is called American English Spell Checking 1.0 -- Adam Vande More Does it include a thesaurus? I found a spell checking extension; but it doesn't include a thesaurus. There are some thesaurus dictionaries; but they include crummy instructions on how to install them. Weird that in previous installations all this stuff was automatically configured by the ports tree. Thank you for your communications. -Neil The main reason I upgraded to OOo-311 was to have a functional spellchecker. I can't find any, even tho but clicking around I found ``en_US.oxt'' which is a zip file. The HElp file does not jibe with what's there in the File - Wizards ... . Anyway, Adam, the extension you listed turns out to be the file I downloaded. How-to install the thing and get it working!? gary Tools Extension Manager Add -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Openoffice3 and aspell
On Sat, 2 Jan 2010 15:06:35 +0100 Randall Wood rand...@woodbriceno.net replied: On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 06:22:13AM -0500, Jerry wrote: On Fri, 1 Jan 2010 20:00:28 -0800 (PST) Neil Short nesh...@yahoo.com replied: Does it include a thesaurus? Until at least recently there was no English (American) language thesaurus. BTW, have fun with the 'extensions'. I have seen grown men cry trying to get them installed correctly in FreeBSD; much less get them to work correctly. If you have any other word processor available, irregardless of OS, I would strongly recommend using it. I use Softmaker Office; the Linux binary works fine on FreeBSD. It's closed source and you've got to pay for it, which turns most people off. But if you can get past those two characteristics, it's a wonderful office suite, and the word processor has both dictionary and thesaurus. It's furthermore extremely fast, especially compared to OO.o. www.softmaker.de I am rather surprised at the price. It is identical to what I could purchase the Microsoft Home Student version for. The only difference between HS and the Standard edition is that Outlook and PowerPoint are not included. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com |=== |=== |=== |=== | ingrate, n: A man who bites the hand that feeds him, and then complains of indigestion. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: [one] solution found (Was: [kl...@thought.org: Re: Openoffice3 and aspell])
On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 01:09:31AM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: About an hour ago things started working, and this time I made notes. ((__NOTE__: The thesaurus stuff is 28.0MB and harder to retrieve; I'll try later.)) Here is a cut and paste of my notes on getting en_US.oxt to install and work: Left mouse click on Insert top bar, go down to File at the last entry of the dropdown. [it may take several seconds.] A widget/window/dialogue will open in your cwd with a list of files that should include the spell-checking file, en_US.oxt. Scroll down the list and click on this file. Then click the Insert button on the dialog. You may need to restart OOo at least once until the checker starts underlining misspelled words. If anyone onlist can find WiRWib.oxt, the thesaurus file, I may be able to make it available on a server somewhere in the States. -gdk Update, just minutes ago I got the wibwir.oxt file downloaded. But (to twist an old saying), there may be no there, there. It is only ~16megs, not 28megs. And since this is only version 0.03, it isn't worth sweating. cheers, gary -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 7.79a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Openoffice3 and aspell
I just noticed that openoffice (openoffice.org-3.1.1) is not checking my spelling. The spell checker on my system is aspell-0.60.6_2. gtkspell-2.0.15_1 is also installed. Before sending this email I tried installing ispell-3.3.02_4. No improvement. How do I get Ooo to check my spelling? == What did you do? the man holding the flashlight asked. I put down a spider, he said, wondering why the man didn't see; in the beam of yellow light the spider bloated up larger than life. So it could get away. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Openoffice3 and aspell
On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Neil Short nesh...@yahoo.com wrote: I just noticed that openoffice (openoffice.org-3.1.1) is not checking my spelling. The spell checker on my system is aspell-0.60.6_2. gtkspell-2.0.15_1 is also installed. Before sending this email I tried installing ispell-3.3.02_4. No improvement. How do I get Ooo to check my spelling? == What did you do? the man holding the flashlight asked. I put down a spider, he said, wondering why the man didn't see; in the beam of yellow light the spider bloated up larger th an life. So it could get away. Hi, AFAIK Ooo use myspell to check the spelling try to install it Regards ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Openoffice3 and aspell
On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 12:27 PM, Neil Short nesh...@yahoo.com wrote: I just noticed that openoffice (openoffice.org-3.1.1) is not checking my spelling. The spell checker on my system is aspell-0.60.6_2. gtkspell-2.0.15_1 is also installed. Before sending this email I tried installing ispell-3.3.02_4. No improvement. How do I get Ooo to check my spelling? == What did you do? the man holding the flashlight asked. I put down a spider, he said, wondering why the man didn't see; in the beam of yellow light the spider bloated up larger than life. So it could get away. There is an OO plugin you need to install for this functionality. -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Openoffice3 and aspell
--- On Fri, 1/1/10, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com wrote: From: Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Openoffice3 and aspell To: Neil Short nesh...@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Friday, January 1, 2010, 4:43 PM On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 12:27 PM, Neil Short nesh...@yahoo.com wrote: I just noticed that openoffice (openoffice.org-3.1.1) is not checking my spelling. The spell checker on my system is aspell-0.60.6_2. gtkspell-2.0.15_1 is also installed. Before sending this email I tried installing ispell-3.3.02_4. No improvement. How do I get Ooo to check my spelling? == What did you do? the man holding the flashlight asked. I put down a spider, he said, wondering why the man didn't see; in the beam of yellow light the spider bloated up larger than life. So it could get away. There is an OO plugin you need to install for this functionality. -- Adam Vande More An extension? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Openoffice3 and aspell
--- On Fri, 1/1/10, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com wrote: From: Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Openoffice3 and aspell To: Neil Short nesh...@yahoo.com Date: Friday, January 1, 2010, 7:27 PM On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 5:58 PM, Neil Short nesh...@yahoo.com wrote: An extension? Mine is called American English Spell Checking 1.0 -- Adam Vande More Does it include a thesaurus? I found a spell checking extension; but it doesn't include a thesaurus. There are some thesaurus dictionaries; but they include crummy instructions on how to install them. Weird that in previous installations all this stuff was automatically configured by the ports tree. Thank you for your communications. -Neil ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Openoffice3 and aspell
On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 08:00:28PM -0800, Neil Short wrote: --- On Fri, 1/1/10, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com wrote: From: Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Openoffice3 and aspell To: Neil Short nesh...@yahoo.com Date: Friday, January 1, 2010, 7:27 PM On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 5:58 PM, Neil Short nesh...@yahoo.com wrote: An extension? Mine is called American English Spell Checking 1.0 -- Adam Vande More Does it include a thesaurus? I found a spell checking extension; but it doesn't include a thesaurus. There are some thesaurus dictionaries; but they include crummy instructions on how to install them. Weird that in previous installations all this stuff was automatically configured by the ports tree. Thank you for your communications. -Neil The main reason I upgraded to OOo-311 was to have a functional spellchecker. I can't find any, even tho but clicking around I found ``en_US.oxt'' which is a zip file. The HElp file does not jibe with what's there in the File - Wizards ... . Anyway, Adam, the extension you listed turns out to be the file I downloaded. How-to install the thing and get it working!? gary ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 7.79a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
