On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 2:59 PM, Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 02:05:41PM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: >> Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 12:03:25PM +0000, Goksin Akdeniz wrote: >> >> On Friday 21 November 2008 01:21:20 Gary Kline wrote: >> >> > >> >> > If there is one with OOo-3, I haven't been able to build it yet.... >> >> > >> >> > gary >> >> >> >> Hello Gary, >> >> >> >> Spellcheck and dictionary addons are avilable for OOo-3 but can not be >> >> installed due to bugs. >> > >> > >> > thanks for the datapoint. good to know these tools are en-route. >> > i'm working on some ye-olden texts that need updating to 21st century >> > english. .... >> >> They aren't really "en route". They are here, and they're working for me. >> The dictionaries are no longer installed with OpenOffice by default -- as >> I understand it, this is because there are now so many different languages >> that would need to be included. >> >> The documentation I used was at: >> http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Dictionaries > > > i Can understand the ``myriad dictionaries problem'' since OO > supports so many languages; but I'm looking for a grammar tool. > There was some rumble about a grammar-checker becoming available > sometime [like RSN:)] ... but so far nothing. --At the same > time, the GNU diction program has found several things. Havent > used that for ages. > > gary > Well, there is http://www.languagetool.org/ available for OOo, but I don't know how to get it installed due to the "bad transfer url" error that's been reported [1] when installing extensions. Any ideas related to that?
[1] http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-openoffice/2008-October/003941.html >> >> -- >> Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area >> http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > -- > Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix > http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
