Package: openoffice.org-dictionaries
Version: 1:2.0.2.99.2.0.3rc5-3
I'm using a standard installation of OpenOffice on
stable/etch, and my spellchecking is no longer working. I've upgraded
recently to etch from sarge, and I don't remember is the spell check
was working post upgrade or not.
You may think that it's the trivial issue of not having the
proper language set in the paragraph style. Well, it's not.
This is what I do in Writer :
o create a new Text document.
o type random characters
o select the text
o context menu -> Characters
o Language is set to "English USA"
o Tools->Spellcheck
o "The spellcheck is complete".
o Text it not corrected.
Note that after noticing the problem, the first thing I did
was to delete the ~/.office* directories. This did not help.
These are random observations leading me to believe that
this is not an usual problem.
In the Character->Language selection pulldown, I remember that
all languages with a dictionaty installed had a ABC tickmark icon in front
of them. On my install, none of them has that.
The title of the spellcheck windows has the following title :
"Spellcheck: ()"
The Wizards->Install new dictionaries does not do anything at all.
In Tools->Options->LanguageSettings->WritingAids, the list of
"Available language module" is empty.
Tools->Language->Thesaurus is grayed out.
Tools->Language->Hyphenation returned an error the first time
I ran it that it could not find US/GB stuff. Later, it just does nothing.
A few details on my system.
I'm not using Gnome or KDE, but fvwm2.
My locales :
>locale
LANG=en_US
LANGUAGE=en_US:en_GB:en
LC_CTYPE="en_US"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US"
LC_TIME="en_US"
LC_COLLATE="en_US"
LC_MONETARY="en_US"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US"
LC_PAPER="en_US"
LC_NAME="en_US"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US"
LC_ALL=
# ls /usr/lib/openoffice/share/wordbook
en-GB/ en-US/ fr/ it/
# ll /usr/lib/openoffice/share/wordbook/en-US/
total 16
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-04-20 13:20 ./
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 2007-05-08 14:02 ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 77 2007-03-22 03:38 Debian.dic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 786 2007-03-22 03:38 soffice.dic
# ls /usr/share/myspell/dicts/
DicOOo.sxw en_GB.dic en_US.dic it_IT.aff th_en_US_v2.dat
dictionary.lst@ en-GB.dic@ en-US.dic@ it-IT.aff@ th_en_US_v2.idx
en_GB.aff en_US.aff fr.aff it_IT.dic th_it_IT_v2.dat
en-GB.aff@ en-US.aff@ fr.dic it-IT.dic@ th_it_IT_v2.idx
# cat /etc/openoffice/dictionary.lst
[...]
## !!! BEGIN AUTOMATIC SECTION -- DO NOT CHANGE !!!
## !!! ADD YOUR ADDITIONAL ENTRIES BELOW THIS SECTION !!!
DICT en GB en_GB
DICT en US en_US
DICT fr FR fr
DICT fr BE fr
DICT fr CA fr
DICT it IT it_IT
THES en US th_en_US_v2
THES en GB th_en_US_v2
THES it IT th_it_IT_v2
## !!! END AUTOMATIC SECTION -- DO NOT CHANGE !!!
# dpkg -l \*openoffice\* | grep '^ii'
ii openoffice.org 2.0.4.dfsg.2-5etch1 OpenOffice.org
Office suite version 2.0
ii openoffice.org-base 2.0.4.dfsg.2-5etch1 OpenOffice.org
office suite - database
ii openoffice.org-calc 2.0.4.dfsg.2-5etch1 OpenOffice.org
office suite - spreadsheet
ii openoffice.org-common 2.0.4.dfsg.2-5etch1 OpenOffice.org
office suite architecture ind
ii openoffice.org-core 2.0.4.dfsg.2-5etch1 OpenOffice.org
office suite architecture dep
ii openoffice.org-draw 2.0.4.dfsg.2-5etch1 OpenOffice.org
office suite - drawing
ii openoffice.org-gcj 2.0.4.dfsg.2-5etch1 OpenOffice.orgs
Java libraries (native for u
ii openoffice.org-help-en-us 2.0.4.dfsg.2-5etch1 English_american
help for OpenOffice.org
ii openoffice.org-impress 2.0.4.dfsg.2-5etch1 OpenOffice.org
office suite - presentation
ii openoffice.org-java-common 2.0.4.dfsg.2-5etch1 OpenOffice.org
office suite Java support arc
ii openoffice.org-l10n-en-gb 2.0.4.dfsg.2-5etch1 English_british
language package for OpenOff
ii openoffice.org-l10n-fr 2.0.4.dfsg.2-5etch1 French language
package for OpenOffice.org
ii openoffice.org-l10n-it 2.0.4.dfsg.2-5etch1 Italian language
package for OpenOffice.org
ii openoffice.org-math 2.0.4.dfsg.2-5etch1 OpenOffice.org
office suite - equation edito
ii openoffice.org-thesaurus-en-us 2.0.4~rc1-3 English Thesaurus
for OpenOffice.org
ii openoffice.org-thesaurus-it 0+20050726 Italian Thesaurus
for OpenOffice.org 2
ii openoffice.org-writer 2.0.4.dfsg.2-5etch1 OpenOffice.org
office suite - word processor
# dpkg -l \*spell\* | grep '^ii'
ii aspell 0.60.4-4 GNU Aspell spell-checker
ii aspell-en 6.0-0-5.1 English dictionary for
GNU Aspell
ii aspell-fr 0.50-3-6 French dictionary for
aspell
ii aspell-it 0.60.20060723ds1-1 The Italian dictionary
for GNU Aspell
ii ispell 3.1.20.0-4.3 International Ispell (an
interactive spellin
ii libaspell15 0.60.4-4 GNU Aspell spell-checker
runtime library
ii libmyspell3c2 3.1-18 MySpell spellchecking
library
ii myspell-en-gb 2.0.4~rc1-3 English_british
dictionary for myspell
ii myspell-en-us 2.0.4~rc1-3 English_american
dictionary for myspell
ii myspell-fr-gut 1.0-18 The French dictionary
for myspell (GUTenberg
ii myspell-it 2.0.4~rc1-3 Italian dictionary for
myspell
ii spell 1.0-17 GNU Spell, a clone of
Unix `spell'
# dpkg -l \*americ\* | grep '^ii'
ii iamerican 3.1.20.0-4.3 An American
English dictionary for ispell
ii wamerican 6-2 American
English dictionary words for /usr/s
# dpkg -l \*brit\* | grep '^ii'
ii ibritish 3.1.20.0-4.3 A British English dictionary for ispell
ii wbritish 6-2 British English dictionary words for /usr/sh
Yeah, I guess you must now be quite puzzled. Well, good luck...
Regards,
Jean
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