The UK Thesaurus is indeed a bit of a pain.
At present I resorted to use the US thesaurus making OOo think that it is
the UK one, a bit of a pain, but doable:
If you use windows like me here's how:
1. go to the folder where you installed OOo and then navigate to
\share\dict\ooo. In most of the cases it would be
C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org 1.9.abc\share\dict\ooo where abc is the
snapshot.
2. rename the file th_en_US_new.dat to th_en_GB.dat
3. rename the file th_en_US_new.idx to th_en_GB.idx
4. edit with wordpad or with whatever editor you fancy (not notepad though)
the file dictionary.lst. find the line
THES en US th_en_US_new
And replace it with the following line
THES en GB th_en_GB.
5. I think you need to restart completely OOo, so close every instance of
the program including the quick start in the system tray and open a text
document to have the settings activated.
NOTE!!! If you want to edit document in American English, at step 2 and 3
instead of renaming the existing files make a copy of the original files and
rename them. At step 4 instead of replacing the line, just add the new one.
Not very nice but it does the job for me.
Cheers,
Michele
-----Original Message-----
From: SOTL [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 27 July 2005 20:01
To: [email protected]; Avraham Hanadari
Subject: Re: [users] Snapshot Thesauruses
On Wednesday 27 July 2005 06:05 am, Avraham Hanadari wrote:
> At the beginning of July several people complained about the absence of
> certain Thesauruses in the latest Wizards. I noted that the missing
> items could be found on earlier Wizard files, which I personally
> provided to the searchers. Unfortunately 118 and the latest wizard for
> it is also broken in the same fashion. What exactly is the big problem?
> The thesauruses for UK English and other languages missing from the
> latest wizards are all to be found on earlier wizards. Why can't they be
> made accessable on the latest wizards?
>
> Avrahan Hanadari
Don know about latest version but the Thesaurus has always been a bitch to
make work. Why? Don have a clue.
What you have to do is set language first then set Thesaurus to work with
that
language. For the English [US] Thesaurus one problem is that for some reason
part of OO thinks the proper language is German and part thinks it is
English. All language settings must be set to English [US] if that is your
fancy or to German. You can not mix the two.
Second issue some times I can get it to work and some time I can not from
the
same installation files. Why I do not have a clue.
Frank
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