On Fri, 2006-11-10 at 19:46 +1000, Registration Account wrote: > Is there an English AU Dictionary available for open office and how is > it installed into which directory. I take it its a text file and > assume spell check utilises the same file. > I am probably not the first to ask this question and I am sorry to > those who have answered it before me joining. > I find the Openoffice site most unhelpful in layout and presentation, > but I suppose I will get the best it has to offer in time. > Like most all other English speaking country I am currently using a UK > Dictionary which is almost 98% effective, however it would be nice to > have the slight variations. > Thanks to all. My Distro is SUSE Linux 10.1 and Open Office is 2.0.2 > > Thanks Scott
Hi Scott, Yes, there is an Australian dictionary available, thanks mainly to the work of Kelvin Eldridge. The details can be found at: http://www.justlocal.com.au/clients/oooau/ Alternatively, contact me off-list and I will email the necessary files to you. Installing them is a simple task if you only want to use AU. Setting up for additional languages/dialects is a little more complicated. As to where you install depends upon whether or not you are using the "official" version or the adaptation that SuSE included with 10.1 FWIW I would recommend that you uninstall 2.02, download the latest "official" version 2.04 then install the AU dictionary, hyphenation and thesaurus in /opt/openoffice.org2.0/share/dict/ooo If you want to stay with the SuSE edition, there may be more current version in the repositories, which will install somewhere under /usr It has been suggested to you by others on this list to use the "Install new dictionaries" wizard or download via wiki services. I am not sure if the wizard works for the SuSE edition and the dictionary offered on the Ooo ftp server is fairly old, Kelvin updated the files just a few days ago. Hope this helps. Dave -- Registered Linux User #288562 http://counter.li.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
