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Hi, Jean Tourrilhes wrote: > 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. Hmm. > Note that after noticing the problem, the first thing I did > was to delete the ~/.office* directories. This did not help. Because they don't exist? :) > 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. Yes, really weird. > # 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 wrong, unrelevant dir. This one here is important, though: $ dpkg -L openoffice.org-common | grep dict /usr/lib/openoffice/share/dict /usr/share/myspell/dicts /usr/share/myspell/dicts/DicOOo.sxw /usr/lib/openoffice/share/dict/ooo ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ /usr/share/myspell/dicts/dictionary.lst $ ls -l /usr/lib/openoffice/share/dict/ooo lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 2007-04-10 09:23 /usr/lib/openoffice/share/dict/ooo -> ../../../../share/myspell/dicts Do you have that? (If not, i've no idea why it got lost as it *is* in the package) > # 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 OK. > # 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 !!! OK > # 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 OK > # dpkg -l \*spell\* | grep '^ii' [ i-/aspell stuff stripped off ...] > 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 [...] OK. > # 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 Unrelated to OOo. 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