David B Teague wrote: > 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
...........loathe hearing .... or ...........am loath to hear.... Otherwise, this pedant agrees entirely, > 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 > > > -- Peter B. West <http://cv.pbw.id.au/> Folio <http://defoe.sourceforge.net/folio/folio.html> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
