M Henri Day wrote:
It just goes to show, things aren't always what they seem to be ! I'm
beginning to feel pretty 'alien' myself, when confronted with these
difficulties ! Could I ask you, Jim, to explain in some detail for a
'noob'
some myself, to what you were referring when you referred to 'setting up
[the "official" version of OOo] with alien' ? If little green men from
Mars
or some as yet to us unknown Earth-like planet circling a distant star
can
help me with these download problems, I'd be delighted !...
My greatest problem, along side of which OOo's sudden disappearance
followed
by resurrection in which the lost documents are easily recovered, is
merely
a minor annoyance, is that I've been unable to gain access to a means of
writing passages in Chinese or Japanese in documents written mainly in
European languages. I've installed all the SCIM-files in Ubuntu and
made the
appropriate adjustments in OOo, but the one thing I've hitherto been
unable
to do is to activate the settings so that I can insert a series of
graphs (a
book title, a quote, etc) into a sentence in say, English or French or
Swedish. What do I have to do ? My standard keyboard setting is Swedish,
which works rather well for most European languages (not so well for
Danish
or Norwegian, but that is an inter-Nordic dispute), and I have set
simplified Chinese as the standard for so-called 'Asian' languages.
But how
can I change from the former to the latter, either between documents or
within a document. I've read the help pages which tell me to use
'Control +
space' or 'shift + space' to toggle back and forth between the two
settings,
but nothing happens ! This, indeed, was easier in Windows and Word, where
everything required could be accomplished with a few mouse clicks.
Anybody
feel like taking pity on me in my ignorance and providing me with
step-by-step instructions to make things work ?...
Henri
2006/12/14, jimw wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
I Use Ubuntu as well, though I haven't switched to the new version
just yet.
I've always used the 'official' version of OOo, setting it up with alien.
The first few Ubuntu Openoffices did not include the thesaurus,but if you
wanted to go to the trouble, you could load the Ubuntu OpenOffice
Thesaurus
separately.
That made me wonder what else they'd been messing around with, so I
only use
the official version now. That way, when I have a problem, I can get help
from the users group.
JimW
To help you install, go to
http://www.reallylinux.com/docs/oo2install.shtml
(Ignore the fact that it refers to 2.0. The process is what's
important. This is the page I referred to in my own install.)
As for the rest, I had a phase where I tried to get SCIM working on
Mandrake, but was never able to do so.
The biggest trouble is that most of the people, it seems, who know
anything about these input methods are Chinese themselves, and I have
never been able to track down one who could explain it in English.
Since Ubuntu is set up to deal with Unicode inherently, it ought to be
easier to do the Asian languages. One of the first things one would
have to do is to Get onto your Ubuntu Desktop and go
System>Preferences>keyboard and set the keyboard to whichever country
you're dealing with. You then use a Unicode-Compliant font, and your
SCIM or XIM should be able to work.
(I can't give any detailed instructions, because I've never tried it on
Ubuntu. You might ask on the Ubuntu Forums about that.)
Good Luck
JimW
