Re: Spellcheck Problem

2002-12-01 Thread Tom Badran
On Sunday 01 Dec 2002 4:17 pm, Kevin B. Hendricks wrote: > Hi, > > > For some reason i had changed that line to "DICT en US en_GB" > > In the future, please tell people you have hacked and played around with > installing other dictionaries. That would have been a helpful piece of > information to

Re: Spellcheck Problem

2002-12-01 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 01 Dec 2002 4:19 pm, you wrote: > > seems to suggest much better alternatives than openoffice's built in > > spellchecker. > > Specific examples please A bit tough there, its one of those 'general feeling' things and i just seem general

Re: Spellcheck Problem

2002-12-01 Thread Kevin B. Hendricks
Hi, > using aspell > seems to suggest much better alternatives than openoffice's built in > spellchecker. BTW, I looked at the en_GB.aff file and they do *not* use the replacement table feature of MySpell. So their suggestions mechanism will ONLY catch common typing problems (additional letter

Re: Spellcheck Problem

2002-12-01 Thread Kevin B. Hendricks
Hi, > On a side note, it it possible to make openoffice > use aspell rather than its built in one as kmail/kword using aspell No, aspell is not crossplatform enough but Kevin Atkinbson is trying to make it better. He would welcome the any development help you might offer. > seems to suggest mu

Re: Spellcheck Problem

2002-12-01 Thread Kevin B. Hendricks
Hi, > For some reason i had changed that line to "DICT en US en_GB" In the future, please tell people you have hacked and played around with installing other dictionaries. That would have been a helpful piece of information to post in the bug report don't you think. > it must have been a

Re: Spellcheck Problem

2002-12-01 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi Kevin, Kevin B. Hendricks wrote: > Yes, here are a few other things to check. > > 1. are there any old or extra en_US peices found in the user's own > spellcheck directory (upstream look in > ~/OpenOffice.org1.0.1/user/wordbook > That directory should now be empty. Tom? Have you something

[rene@debian.org: Re: Spellcheck Problem]

2002-12-01 Thread Rene Engelhard
L PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Spellcheck Problem User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: The Debian Project Hi, Kevin B. Hendricks wrote: > Hi, > > Here are some more things to check: > > 3. are en_US.aff and en_US.dic world readable? Yes. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l /usr/lib/openoffice

Re: Spellcheck Problem

2002-12-01 Thread Tom Badran
It is now fixed, i was missing the .aff file for en_GB Thanks for help guys. On a side note, it it possible to make openoffice use aspell rather than its built in one as kmail/kword using aspell seems to suggest much better alternatives than openoffice's built in spellchecker. Tom

Re: Spellcheck Problem

2002-12-01 Thread Tom Badran
On Sunday 01 Dec 2002 3:45 pm, Kevin B. Hendricks wrote: > Hi, > > No the problem is not upstream. Spellchecking works fine upstream. > So something about the debain installation is not correct (it seems to be > missing the affix information). > > Please check for the files en_US.aff and en_US.dic

Re: Spellcheck Problem

2002-12-01 Thread Kevin B. Hendricks
Hi, Here are some more things to check: 3. are en_US.aff and en_US.dic world readable? 4. do the share/dict/ooo directories have execute privs enabled 5. As A test, you could simply remove the en_US.* files and manully place known good copies (use the dictionary installer available from the

Re: Spellcheck Problem

2002-12-01 Thread Kevin B. Hendricks
Hi, Yes, here are a few other things to check. 1. are there any old or extra en_US peices found in the user's own spellcheck directory (upstream look in ~/OpenOffice.org1.0.1/user/wordbook That directory should now be empty. 2. Corruption of the en_US.aff file. Please zip up those files and

Re: Spellcheck Problem

2002-12-01 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi Kevin, Kevin B. Hendricks wrote: > No the problem is not upstream. Spellchecking works fine upstream. > So something about the debain installation is not correct (it seems to be > missing the affix information). > > Please check for the files en_US.aff and en_US.dic being present in your >

Re: Spellcheck Problem

2002-12-01 Thread Kevin B. Hendricks
Hi, No the problem is not upstream. Spellchecking works fine upstream. So something about the debain installation is not correct (it seems to be missing the affix information). Please check for the files en_US.aff and en_US.dic being present in your tree in the proper place (under an official

Spellcheck Problem

2002-12-01 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ive had this problem for a while with the debian packages, but as it is still in the latest version (upgraded yesterday) i thought i would report it. The spell check (en_us or manually installed en_gb) is basically useless as it cant recognise any p