On Monday 07 October 2002 09:19, Robert C. Dowdy wrote: > On Saturday 05 October 2002 5:55 am, Buchan Milne wrote: > > On Sat, 5 Oct 2002, Vox wrote: > > > Carfield Yim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Hi all, I have installed the mandrake version rpm package of > > > > OpenOffice. However, the package don't contain any dictionary files. > > > > Where can I find the dictionary file and install? > > > > > > urpmi OpenOffice.org-l10n-<twolettercodeoflanguageyouwant> > > > > > > Vox > > > > Actullay, try: > > > > # urpmi myspell > > > > and then select your language. OpenOffice.org requires a myspell, so you > > probably have one installed already, you might want to use Software > > Manager to search for myspell, and choose additional dictionaries. > > > > But, please remember that this is not a support list, and your post was > > not a bug report, but seems very much like a support question. There are > > more appropriate lists for that. > > > > Regards, > > Buchan > > Actually, I believe this *is* a bug. I've installed 9.0 final three times > and each time spell checking in OpenOffice.org was broken until I manually > installed a US English myspell (which newbies certainly wouldn't know to > do). It doesn't seem likely that OO.o should have broken spell-checking > intentionally. Maybe it's just a problem for US English installations. > I'm not sure. > This is also valid for german dictionary which is not installed automatically. Also german help files have to be installed manually. Hopefully this should be corrected with the next Mandrake edition (9.1 ?)
> The most serious aspect of this is that OO.o doesn't TELL the user that > spelling is broken. I could set Autocheck to "yes" and it didn't complain, > it just didn't do anything. I could manually order a spellcheck, and it > didn't complain, it just didn't work (as if there were no spelling errors > in the document, even if the document was all gibberish). > > Again, this definitely sounds like a bug to me. =) > > Regards, > Rob Walter Kasberg --
