On Tuesday 10 January 2006 00:07, Howard Coles Jr. wrote: > I have tried using the dicOOo macro, and I've searched using Google, and I > cannot figure out how to safely add a Thesaurus dictionary to OOo 2.0. > > I am running Kubuntu 5.1 (breezy) with OpenOffice.org 2. There is no .deb > file for the thesaurus for some reason, and finding out why has been > equally frustrating. So, attempting to add one manually has been > impossible. I tried using the dicOOo macro, but OOo crashes when I do. > (the version of dicOOo I found was 1.4 if there is a newer one that > supports 2.0 better please point me to it and I'll try it) > > I have asked on the Kubuntu list, however they just say "Use > File->Wizards->Install New Dictionaries" but that has never worked either, > so I'm stuck. > > I have searched and dug for hours, its now midnight, I'm asking for as much > help here as anyone can give.
Sorry I have no idea why that email address was still in my config, however, I found a work around for the problem which I sent to the Kubuntu list as follows: (however if someone knows where I can download the dicOOo 1.5.5 that works with OpenOffice.org2 I'd appreciate it) You have to download and install a windows version to do this, however, it does work. If you have OpenOffice.org 2 installed on (K)Ubuntu, from the persons repository, (thank you for creating the .deb files that you did!), but miss the Thesaurus function as I did, then you have to copy the Hyphen and Thesaurus Dictionaries from a Windows install. If you try to use dicOOo (version 1.4 that is) you will get the thesaurus files for OOo 1.1.x, not 2.0.x. So, on your Windows install under the OpenOffice.org directory, look for share/dict/ooo/ You will see the files that start with "hyph_" or "th_<langcode>_<countrycode>_v2" (.dat and .idx for the thesaurus files). copy them according to your language and country, to /usr/share/myspell/dicts Then edit the /usr/share/myspell/dicts/dictionary.1st to include the newly copied dictionaries. It should look something like: ## !!! BEGIN AUTOMATIC SECTION -- DO NOT CHANGE !!! ## !!! ADD YOUR ADDITIONAL ENTRIES BELOW THIS SECTION !!! DICT en GB en_GB DICT en US en_US ## !!! END AUTOMATIC SECTION -- DO NOT CHANGE !!! THES en US th_en_US_v2 HYPH en US hyph_en_US (some dates may be here as there were in mine). -- See Ya' Howard Coles Jr. John 3:16! Christian Books On-Line http://risenbooks.com http://home.comcast.net/~dhcolesj --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
