Marcin Miłkowski wrote:
Dnia 29 stycznia 2009 21:55 David B Teague <[email protected]>
napisał(a):
Marcin Miłkowski wrote:
Hi,
Try to install some other Java-based extension, like Report Builder:
http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/reportdesign
If you're having problems with this as well, the problem is your Java settings
in OOo. Try to find the file javasettings*.xml in your home directory
(Documents and Settings\Application Data\OpenOffice.org\....) and simply remove
it. It will get recreated and probably the problems will be gone. Happened to
me a couple of times.
Regards,
Marcin
Dnia 29 stycznia 2009 18:27 David B Teague napisał(a):
Marcin
That worked. Many thanks. I deleted the Javasettings file and restarted
OO.o. The extension could be installed immediately. I restarted OO.o
Writer yet again. The grammar checker works, but now OO.o spelling isn't
checked as I type. It did underline words that were misspelled but not
anymore. I have looked for a place to turn the spelling as I type back
on, but I can't find it.
Can you help me again?
Hm, checking as you type is activated via the ABC icon on the toolbar and
Tools>Options>Language settings. I have no access to OOo right now, so I'm
trying to remember that.
Marcin
Thanks, I had found that, but it was already turned on.
I have a more fundamental problem with the grammar checker. First, it
doesn't give enough context in it user interface so to decide whether to
agree with its indication of a problem. It also does not have a
dictionary that contains usual non-standard spellings, such as Yahoo!.
In the context, "Yahoo! uses this." it flags "uses" as the uncapitalized
start of a sentence, but it doesn't give the context so I can tell the
difficulty.
It does not understand /grammar, /to wit, the /objective/ case.
Properly, prepositions, /for/, /to/, /of/, etc., take the /objective
/case, in particular, "/him/", "/her/", and "/me/". It happily ignores
"... for he and I." The grammar checker either doesn't check this or
ignore this peccadillo. Or worse the guy who wrote the rules doesn't
know. I loath to hear or read, in Standard English, "... something for
John and I." Correctly, this is "... for John and *ME*." And most
assuredly not the nausiating "... for John and */myself." / *
I can't get the checker to recheck a page once it has been checked even
if the something on the page has been changed.
I am desperately hoping that the lacks are in me and my use of it, but I
am truly afraid it is not.
These are serious lacks, and I want to help with this, but I have to be
sure I can make what is there work as intended, even if the results are
wrong, before even thinking about actually trying to help.
I HAVE to have a trustworthy spelling checker. OO.o 3.0.1 with the
grammar checker installed does not appear to be such a beast -- yet.
Warmest Regards
David Teague
