Re: [newbie] spell check in open office
joe wrote: On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 16:00, Matt Harrison wrote: I do have aspell running and my OO still has crappy spell check. Mine is so bad it is even missing words I misspell on purpose to test it. -Matt I also have aspell and 3 kinds of English dictionaries installed. I also purposely misspelled word to check, ie corrporration, was not picked up. It says spell check complete...but it isn't. Once I got an error message saying something about checking my settings under tools/options/language settings/writing aides, which I did and everything looks good. Myspell spell checker is there, looks enabled, thesaurus is there... What else could I check? I cant seem to get the same error message again, now it always says spell check complete. There's a good dictionary with a spellchecker attatched called kdict which looks to me like the webster's dictionary that was part of M8.2 incorporated into kde and it works but the disadvantage is that it has to be online, and of course it isn't intergrated into either Mozilla which is where I want one most of all, nor anywhere else as far as I can see. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] spell check in open office
On Mon, 18 Nov 2002 21:03:36 -0700 joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 16:00, Matt Harrison wrote: I do have aspell running and my OO still has crappy spell check. Mine is so bad it is even missing words I misspell on purpose to test it. -Matt I also have aspell and 3 kinds of English dictionaries installed. I also purposely misspelled word to check, ie corrporration, was not picked up. It says spell check complete...but it isn't. Once I got an error message saying something about checking my settings under tools/options/language settings/writing aides, which I did and everything looks good. Myspell spell checker is there, looks enabled, thesaurus is there... What else could I check? I cant seem to get the same error message again, now it always says spell check complete. Currently OO still uses myspell not aspell/pspell for spell checking. Charles Many aligators will be slain, but the swamp will remain. -- Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] spell check in open office
On Tuesday 19 Nov 2002 9:33 am, joe wrote: On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 16:00, Matt Harrison wrote: I do have aspell running and my OO still has crappy spell check. Mine is so bad it is even missing words I misspell on purpose to test it. -Matt I also have aspell and 3 kinds of English dictionaries installed. I also purposely misspelled word to check, ie corrporration, was not picked up. It says spell check complete...but it isn't. Once I got an error message saying something about checking my settings under tools/options/language settings/writing aides, which I did and everything looks good. Myspell spell checker is there, looks enabled, thesaurus is there... What else could I check? I cant seem to get the same error message again, now it always says spell check complete. I also did spell check. Though I installed English UK as default language, I changed it using tools/options/language settings/languages/ default to English USA. Still It checks the following sentence and says spell check complete without pointing out errors. This is tst messege. -- L.V.Gandhi 203, Soundaryalahari Apartments, Lawsons Bay colony, Visakhapatnam, 530017 MECON, 5th Floor, RTC Complex, Visakhapatnam AP 530020 INDIA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] spell check in open office
with MySpell dictionary and hyphenation dictionary installed (en_US) [mdk 9.0 CD 3], in OO.o, open: Tools Options Language Settings Writing Aids and then check the first box in the top section (turning on MySpell spell checker). In other sections of that window, you can set the options, including automatic spell checking (incorrectly spelled words will be underlined in red). It works fine for me. HTH. On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 06:43, L.V.Gandhi wrote: On Tuesday 19 Nov 2002 9:33 am, joe wrote: On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 16:00, Matt Harrison wrote: I do have aspell running and my OO still has crappy spell check. Mine is so bad it is even missing words I misspell on purpose to test it. -Matt I also have aspell and 3 kinds of English dictionaries installed. I also purposely misspelled word to check, ie corrporration, was not picked up. It says spell check complete...but it isn't. Once I got an error message saying something about checking my settings under tools/options/language settings/writing aides, which I did and everything looks good. Myspell spell checker is there, looks enabled, thesaurus is there... What else could I check? I cant seem to get the same error message again, now it always says spell check complete. I also did spell check. Though I installed English UK as default language, I changed it using tools/options/language settings/languages/ default to English USA. Still It checks the following sentence and says spell check complete without pointing out errors. This is tst messege. -- L.V.Gandhi 203, Soundaryalahari Apartments, Lawsons Bay colony, Visakhapatnam, 530017 MECON, 5th Floor, RTC Complex, Visakhapatnam AP 530020 INDIA -- Erik Linux User 288105 = Bill who? Micro what? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] spell check in open office - solution
When I first checked out OOwriter, I found that a default language had yet to be set. Curious. So I set it US English. Spell checking still wasn't working. I checked if MySpell was installed. Sure enough, but Canadian English. WTF?! I didn't do that. So I installed US en package. Still didn't work. So I uninstalled the Canadian English--bingo! Spell checking is working. I wonder if others have experienced the same thing? Miark On 19 Nov 2002 11:50:04 -0600 Erik Farnsworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: with MySpell dictionary and hyphenation dictionary installed (en_US) [mdk 9.0 CD 3], in OO.o, open: Tools Options Language Settings Writing Aids and then check the first box in the top section (turning on MySpell spell checker). In other sections of that window, you can set the options, including automatic spell checking (incorrectly spelled words will be underlined in red). It works fine for me. HTH. On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 06:43, L.V.Gandhi wrote: On Tuesday 19 Nov 2002 9:33 am, joe wrote: On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 16:00, Matt Harrison wrote: I do have aspell running and my OO still has crappy spell check. Mine is so bad it is even missing words I misspell on purpose to test it. -Matt I also have aspell and 3 kinds of English dictionaries installed. I also purposely misspelled word to check, ie corrporration, was not picked up. It says spell check complete...but it isn't. Once I got an error message saying something about checking my settings under tools/options/language settings/writing aides, which I did and everything looks good. Myspell spell checker is there, looks enabled, thesaurus is there... What else could I check? I cant seem to get the same error message again, now it always says spell check complete. I also did spell check. Though I installed English UK as default language, I changed it using tools/options/language settings/languages/ default to English USA. Still It checks the following sentence and says spell check complete without pointing out errors. This is tst messege. -- L.V.Gandhi 203, Soundaryalahari Apartments, Lawsons Bay colony, Visakhapatnam, 530017 MECON, 5th Floor, RTC Complex, Visakhapatnam AP 530020 INDIA -- Erik Linux User 288105 = Bill who? Micro what? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] spell check in open office
Anyone else find that the spell checker is especially poor in open office? I know that none are perfect but...other than really common errors that it fixes automatically, it doesn't seem to find them. I have found that evolution is better at pointing out my mistakes. Any yet I can't copy text from evolution to OO, making things a little difficult. Suggestions as to what I might do (other than spell properly, which I never was good at)? Also does star office have a grammar checker? I miss it sometimes when I'm using OO. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] spell check in open office
On Monday 18 November 2002 09:53 pm, joe wrote: Anyone else find that the spell checker is especially poor in open office? I know that none are perfect but...other than really common errors that it fixes automatically, it doesn't seem to find them. I have found that evolution is better at pointing out my mistakes. Any yet I can't copy text from evolution to OO, making things a little difficult. Suggestions as to what I might do (other than spell properly, which I never was good at)? Also does star office have a grammar checker? I miss it sometimes when I'm using OO. Agreed, Joe. I had a lot of trouble getting my danish spell-checker to work in Open Office. After a while, I gave up. Then, amazingly, I tried KWord. To set up spell-checking in KWord is a breeze. You can add as many languages you want, and switch between them in a heartbeat. - Provided, of course, that you have installed aspell-[language_code_here] and the corresponding locales. Stubborn, as I tend to be, I re-tried OO. It's reallly quirky to set up, but when you finally have it running, it's brilliant ! - Could it be, that you don't run aspell ? A suggestion : one can get an idea of the completeness of various spell-checkers by comparing their file-sizes in the rpm-listings. That's the reason I use aspell. I have 4 languages installed : en_us (default), da (my wife has a - what's it called - word-blindness-disorder ?), de and fr (for my teen-age daughters) and all work splendidly. HTH ( I didn't use any spell-check here, - sorry ) Kaj Haulrich Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] spell check in open office
On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 16:00, Matt Harrison wrote: I do have aspell running and my OO still has crappy spell check. Mine is so bad it is even missing words I misspell on purpose to test it. -Matt I also have aspell and 3 kinds of English dictionaries installed. I also purposely misspelled word to check, ie corrporration, was not picked up. It says spell check complete...but it isn't. Once I got an error message saying something about checking my settings under tools/options/language settings/writing aides, which I did and everything looks good. Myspell spell checker is there, looks enabled, thesaurus is there... What else could I check? I cant seem to get the same error message again, now it always says spell check complete. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
