David Lowe wrote:
On May 14, 2008, at 24:15 , Russell Butler wrote:
David Lowe wrote:
I have an additional dictionary [chemistry.dic] i would like to
add along with my regular English-USA. The dictionary came with
directions to install it on Windows, that refers to directories that
don't exist on my Mac. Since the Wizard doesn't like non-compressed
dictionaries, how am i to install it? I didn't find anything like
this in the help, nor through a web search...
Hi David
Have a look at some of the resources at
http://lingucomponent.openoffice.org/
What form does your dictionary take? Is it just a plain text list?
If so you can use the method discussed at
http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=52103
The lingucomponent page did have a link to "Non-automated Spelling
Installation", but that again refers me to edit files in a directory
that doesn't exist on my Mac [/share/...]. There is an additional link
regarding creating a dictionary, but no mention of what to do with it
other than submitting it to a tracker item. The page for issue 52103
mentions more non-existent directories [/opt/... and
~/.openoffice.org2/...].
Yes, the dictionary file is a plain text file containing just
chemical nomenclature, one word per line. But if the Wizard doesn't
know how to handle this, how the heck am i supposed to? If users are
expected to hand edit config files to make this work, why do the config
files have to be hidden in so many places?
Sorry, David
I am afraid I have no idea what the OOo directory structure is on a Mac.
Maybe some of the Mac users on the list can help you there.
There is, I believe, a project to make adding dictionaries an extension
rather than a wizard. IIRC expected for version 3.
Regards
Russell
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