Rob Clement wrote: > Jim Allan wrote: >> John King wrote: >>> I'm using ooo3 on opensuse 11.0 >>> >>> The Thesaurus item in Tools-Language menu is greyed out, so cannot be >>> used. >>> >>> I've checked in >>> Tools-Options-Language_Settings-Writing_aids-Openoffice_Thesaurus - >>> edit, and there is no thesaurus listed when the language is set to >>> British or Canadian English, only when set to American English, which >>> then also changes the spellchecker, which I do not want to do. >>> >>> I've checked in the extensions repository, but there is no British >>> English thesaurus listed there either. >>> >>> Is it not possible to use a thesaurus for British English? >> >> I normally have my OpenOffice.org set to Canadian English. I opened >> Write to check this, and a message popped up saying that there was an >> update available if I wished to accept it. >> >> The update was for Canadian and UK dictionaries, including the >> thesaurus. I accepted the update. The Canadian thesaurus and UK >> thesaurus work fine. >> >> Just checked again and another update is available for the French >> dictionary, including the thesaurus. I accepted that also. >> >> But I on checking the extension web page I find the Canadian dictionary >> (with thesaurus) but not the UK dictionary. >> >> Most odd. >> >> Jim Allan >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> > John and Jim > > I cannot replicate this on OOo 3.0 running under Vista. > > I checked in my Extension manager and the English spelling and > hyphenation dictionaries and thesaurus are dated 2008.07.01. Do you have > the same version? > > Rob
This seems to be a packaging problem. Following your comment above about ooo on vista, I checked the setup on a Windows XP machine and found an extension dict-en.oxt that wasn't on my opensuse 11 setup (nor on the unofficial ooo3 ubuntu installation from ppa.launchpad.net ), though it was part of the rpm's on the version on the ooo site. Anyway, I've extracted the file from the standard ooo3 release and used package manager as root to install it, and everything seems to be working fine. Just to check, I also repeated the procedure on my ubuntu laptop with the file copied from an Windows machine, and that's ok too. It looks as though that file was left out of the opensuse and launchpad packaging. Unless it turns up in the next few days, I'll submit a bug report. -- regards John [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
