RE: [newbie] OpenOffice Spell Checker.
Michel, I also use myspell-en_GB, but for my spell checker to work I had to also load myspell-en the U.S language component. This seemed necessary for me, so please try it and let me know if it works. To get it, go to the Mandrake Control Centre and proceed as before. Best wishes, Malcolm Candlish. On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 17:59, Michel Clasquin wrote: On Friday 22 November 2002 22:05, Malcolm Candlish wrote: I think we have cracked it! On the Mandrake 9.0 installation disk are some 'myspell' files which when installed enable the Spell Checker. 1.Go to Mandrake Control Centre and click on Add Software. 2.Click Workstation and then openoffice. You will see myspell for different languages, I chose myspell-en_GB. 3.Click install Software and close Mandrake Control Centre. 4.Open openoffice writer. Click Tools options Language Setting Writing Aids Select Language Edit tick myspell spelling, then ok. I have myspell and several languages loaded, but no amount of tinkering with the options will get the spellcheck to work - it just flashes through the document and gives me a dialog box saying that all is OK. Oh well, one more reason to boot back into windows :-( Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] OpenOffice Spell Checker.
On Wednesday 04 December 2002 21:26, Malcolm Candlish wrote: Michel, I also use myspell-en_GB, but for my spell checker to work I had to also load myspell-en the U.S language component. This seemed necessary for me, so please try it and let me know if it works. To get it, go to the Mandrake Control Centre and proceed as before. Thanks, Malcolm, but I already have the following loaded: myspell-en_CA myspell-en_GB myspell-en_US myspell--hyph-en myspell-hyph-nl myspell-nl_NL I still think it's the fonts. As soon as I change the text to a regular font, the spellchecker works fine. I suspect that drakfont marked them as symbol fonts, like Wingdings, when it installed them, and now OOo is trying to be helpful by not spellchecking anything written in them. Michel -- Michel Clasquin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] OpenOffice Spell Checker.
On Friday 22 November 2002 22:05, Malcolm Candlish wrote: I think we have cracked it! On the Mandrake 9.0 installation disk are some 'myspell' files which when installed enable the Spell Checker. 1.Go to Mandrake Control Centre and click on Add Software. 2.Click Workstation and then openoffice. You will see myspell for different languages, I chose myspell-en_GB. 3.Click install Software and close Mandrake Control Centre. 4.Open openoffice writer. Click Tools options Language Setting Writing Aids Select Language Edit tick myspell spelling, then ok. I have myspell and several languages loaded, but no amount of tinkering with the options will get the spellcheck to work - it just flashes through the document and gives me a dialog box saying that all is OK. Oh well, one more reason to boot back into windows :-( Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] OpenOffice Spell Checker.
tools/options/language settings/writing aides/available language modules /highlight oo myspell spellchecker and hit the edit button on the right, when in there tick what you want to be active. Mr Smiley :o) -Original Message- From: Michel Clasquin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 29 November 2002 6:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] OpenOffice Spell Checker. On Friday 22 November 2002 22:05, Malcolm Candlish wrote: I think we have cracked it! On the Mandrake 9.0 installation disk are some 'myspell' files which when installed enable the Spell Checker. 1.Go to Mandrake Control Centre and click on Add Software. 2.Click Workstation and then openoffice. You will see myspell for different languages, I chose myspell-en_GB. 3.Click install Software and close Mandrake Control Centre. 4.Open openoffice writer. Click Tools options Language Setting Writing Aids Select Language Edit tick myspell spelling, then ok. I have myspell and several languages loaded, but no amount of tinkering with the options will get the spellcheck to work - it just flashes through the document and gives me a dialog box saying that all is OK. Oh well, one more reason to boot back into windows :-( Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] OpenOffice Spell Checker.
On Friday 29 November 2002 19:59, Michel Clasquin wrote: I have myspell and several languages loaded, but no amount of tinkering with the options will get the spellcheck to work - it just flashes through the document and gives me a dialog box saying that all is OK. Oh well, one more reason to boot back into windows :-( Bad habit, answering my own posts, but I've just discovered that OO refuses to spellcheck anything written in my custom-loaded CSX+ fonts. stuff written in its own fonts seem OK SERIOUSLY weird! -- Michel Clasquin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] OpenOffice Spell Checker.
On Friday 29 November 2002 20:06, Ken Walker wrote: tools/options/language settings/writing aides/available language modules /highlight oo myspell spellchecker and hit the edit button on the right, when in there tick what you want to be active. Mr Smiley Tried that several times, but as I just discovered, OO just will not check anything writen in the CSX (Romanised Sanskrit) fonts I use, even though the doccie langauge is set to english(uk) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] OpenOffice Spell Checker.
Hello, Thank you for your mail interest. I think we have cracked it! On the Mandrake 9.0 installation disk are some 'myspell' files which when installed enable the Spell Checker. 1.Go to Mandrake Control Centre and click on Add Software. 2.Click Workstation and then openoffice. You will see myspell for different languages, I chose myspell-en_GB. 3.Click install Software and close Mandrake Control Centre. 4.Open openoffice writer. Click Tools options Language Setting Writing Aids Select Language Edit tick myspell spelling, then ok. This works well for me. Best wishes, Malcolm Candlish. On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 21:47, Craig Williamson (ENZ) wrote: Hi There, I can't be 100% certain about this. I know that the mandrake guys are really clued up about what they do, maybe they did disable the spell checker on purpose, maybe it was a genuine mistake. If they did it on purpose, they would most likely try and push the fix to the solution as StarOffice (hence the powerpack statement) or possibly even the Mandrake Club. If true, it smells of a Microsoft tactic. Disable an important feature in a cheaper program, and push the solution as the more expensive option. It could also be a mistake, no bodies perfect. In my experiences with Mandrake9.0, there are a lot of bugs that keep me from completely dropping windows. This problem is pretty big for a lot of people, and I am sure that if Mandrake didn't ship StarOffice as well, OpenOffice would have been working correctly. Any comments? Craig -Original Message- From: Miark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 20 November, 2002 10:28 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] OpenOffice Spell Checker. Craig, you can't be serious. Miark Mandrake's repair tool does not fix the problem. Just off topic, the Mandrake guys may have done this on purpose (as a ploy) to put you onto StarOffice (i.e. buy the PowerPack). Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OpenOffice Spell Checker.
Hello Spence, I found the 'myspell' rpm in the Mandrake Control Centre Add Software section. After adding, it works well, but did not install originally as you seem to have found. Thank you for your kind interest. Malcolm Candlish. On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 22:14, Spencer wrote: On November 19, 2002 01:47 pm, Craig Williamson (ENZ) wrote Before anyone makes wild assumptions about what Mandrake did or did not do, please ensure that you have the appropriate OO help rpm installed, such as; file:/Cooker/Mandrake/RPMS/OpenOffice.org-help-en-1.0.1-9mdk.i586.rpm All spellchecking is enabled with installation of this rpm. Please ensure that myspell is also installed. For some reason, these are not installed automatically when OO is originally installed. I included this rpm when I did the first install and spellchecking has worked properly since. Spence Hi There, I can't be 100% certain about this. I know that the mandrake guys are really clued up about what they do, maybe they did disable the spell checker on purpose, maybe it was a genuine mistake. If they did it on purpose, they would most likely try and push the fix to the solution as StarOffice (hence the powerpack statement) or possibly even the Mandrake Club. If true, it smells of a Microsoft tactic. Disable an important feature in a cheaper program, and push the solution as the more expensive option. It could also be a mistake, no bodies perfect. In my experiences with Mandrake9.0, there are a lot of bugs that keep me from completely dropping windows. This problem is pretty big for a lot of people, and I am sure that if Mandrake didn't ship StarOffice as well, OpenOffice would have been working correctly. Any comments? Craig -Original Message- From: Miark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 20 November, 2002 10:28 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] OpenOffice Spell Checker. Craig, you can't be serious. Miark Mandrake's repair tool does not fix the problem. Just off topic, the Mandrake guys may have done this on purpose (as a ploy) to put you onto StarOffice (i.e. buy the PowerPack). Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OpenOffice Spell Checker.
Hello Paul, Yes thank you, the myspell was in the installation set and having installed it separately, it now works well. Best wishes, Malcolm Candlish. On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 16:54, Paul Rodriguez wrote: I had a similar problem getting extra language dictionaries. The folks in #openoffice.org at irc.openprojects.org were very helpful. In Mandrake, we just need the appropriate myspell packages to be installed, so make sure that the corresponding myspell package for the language you are looking for (presumably English) is installed. For example: myspell-en_US-1.0.1-0.20020626.4mdk.noarch.rpm I find that if I have a program the should be working but isn't, sometimes a forced upgrade of that programs helps if the program was improperly installed without my knowledge. Running rpm -Uvh --force myspell-en_US-1.0.1-0.20020626.4mdk.noarch.rpm from a console as root (assuming that file is in my local directory) has resolved problems like this for me. I hope this helps. Also, make sure that you have the proper dictionary chosen in Tools-Options-Language Settings-Languages Hope this helps. - Paul On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 14:55, Malcolm Candlish wrote: Hello, Can any one suggest a method of getting OO Spell Checker in Mandrake 9.0 working. I have looked around without finding information, except at www.openoffice.org from whence I downloaded 'OOodi-static-0.55-0.i386.rpm'. However I simply cannot get it to run! I expect this has come up some where before, if so please let me know. With thanks in advance of your kind reading. Malcolm Candlish. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OpenOffice Spell Checker.
Hello Joseph, I did as you suggested and it now works well. However, why does the myspell file not load with openoffice as a dependency? Does seem strange, but apart from that I must say I am very pleased with OO. Best wishes, Malcolm Candlish. On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 02:37, Joseph Braddock wrote: You need to go back and install myspell and the appropriate dictionary for you language. Joeb On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 13:55, Malcolm Candlish wrote: Hello, Can any one suggest a method of getting OO Spell Checker in Mandrake 9.0 working. I have looked around without finding information, except at www.openoffice.org from whence I downloaded 'OOodi-static-0.55-0.i386.rpm'. However I simply cannot get it to run! I expect this has come up some where before, if so please let me know. With thanks in advance of your kind reading. Malcolm Candlish. __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Joseph Braddock [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] OpenOffice Spell Checker.
Yep i have had lots of head scratching getting it working. I installed Myspell, and it still didn't work, but the clue is in the message below. You have to go into Tools Options Language Settings Writing Aids and then check the first box in the top section (turning on MySpell spell checker). BUT you then have to go into the edit option on the right of this box and enable it for oo. Now it all works :o) Mr Smiley Ants can survive for two weeks underwater and they always fall onto their right side when intoxicated. -Original Message- From: L.V.Gandhi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 20 November 2002 2:32 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] OpenOffice Spell Checker. On Wednesday 20 Nov 2002 3:44 am, Spencer wrote: On November 19, 2002 01:47 pm, Craig Williamson (ENZ) wrote Before anyone makes wild assumptions about what Mandrake did or did not do, please ensure that you have the appropriate OO help rpm installed, such as; file:/Cooker/Mandrake/RPMS/OpenOffice.org-help-en-1.0.1-9mdk.i586.rpm All spellchecking is enabled with installation of this rpm. No. I was having this rpm. But still spell check was not working. However as per post as given below relevant rpms for languages are installed. 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. It started working. I know that the mandrake guys are really clued up about what they do, maybe they did disable the spell checker on purpose, maybe it was a genuine mistake. If they did it on purpose, they would most likely try and push the fix to the solution as StarOffice (hence the powerpack statement) or possibly even the Mandrake Club. If true, it smells of a Microsoft tactic. Disable an important feature in a cheaper program, and push the solution as the more expensive option. It could also be a mistake, no bodies perfect. In my experiences with Mandrake9.0, there are a lot of bugs that keep me from completely dropping windows. This problem is pretty big for a lot of people, and I am sure that if Mandrake didn't ship StarOffice as well, OpenOffice would have been working correctly. This may be an oversight by mandrake in setting dependencies like drakefont working dependencies. Attributing motives by a few to mandrake guys is not in good taste. I think it may not be fact. -- 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] OpenOffice Spell Checker.
Ken Walker wrote: Yep i have had lots of head scratching getting it working. I installed Myspell, and it still didn't work, but the clue is in the message below. You have to go into Tools Options Language Settings Writing Aids and then check the first box in the top section (turning on MySpell spell checker). BUT you then have to go into the edit option on the right of this box and enable it for oo. Now it all works :o) Mr Smiley Ants can survive for two weeks underwater and they always fall onto their right side when intoxicated. -Original Message- From: L.V.Gandhi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 20 November 2002 2:32 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] OpenOffice Spell Checker. On Wednesday 20 Nov 2002 3:44 am, Spencer wrote: On November 19, 2002 01:47 pm, Craig Williamson (ENZ) wrote Before anyone makes wild assumptions about what Mandrake did or did not do, please ensure that you have the appropriate OO help rpm installed, such as; file:/Cooker/Mandrake/RPMS/OpenOffice.org-help-en-1.0.1-9mdk.i586.rpm All spellchecking is enabled with installation of this rpm. No. I was having this rpm. But still spell check was not working. However as per post as given below relevant rpms for languages are installed. 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. It started working. I know that the mandrake guys are really clued up about what they do, maybe they did disable the spell checker on purpose, maybe it was a genuine mistake. If they did it on purpose, they would most likely try and push the fix to the solution as StarOffice (hence the powerpack statement) or possibly even the Mandrake Club. If true, it smells of a Microsoft tactic. Disable an important feature in a cheaper program, and push the solution as the more expensive option. It could also be a mistake, no bodies perfect. In my experiences with Mandrake9.0, there are a lot of bugs that keep me from completely dropping windows. This problem is pretty big for a lot of people, and I am sure that if Mandrake didn't ship StarOffice as well, OpenOffice would have been working correctly. This may be an oversight by mandrake in setting dependencies like drakefont working dependencies. Attributing motives by a few to mandrake guys is not in good taste. I think it may not be fact. That is correct, and if your OOword screen looks like mine you have two spellchecker tabs on the lefthand side of the OOword window, the blue one does a full spellcheck the red wavy line one merely underlines wrongly spelt words. John John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OpenOffice Spell Checker.
I had a similar problem getting extra language dictionaries. The folks in #openoffice.org at irc.openprojects.org were very helpful. In Mandrake, we just need the appropriate myspell packages to be installed, so make sure that the corresponding myspell package for the language you are looking for (presumably English) is installed. For example: myspell-en_US-1.0.1-0.20020626.4mdk.noarch.rpm I find that if I have a program the should be working but isn't, sometimes a forced upgrade of that programs helps if the program was improperly installed without my knowledge. Running rpm -Uvh --force myspell-en_US-1.0.1-0.20020626.4mdk.noarch.rpm from a console as root (assuming that file is in my local directory) has resolved problems like this for me. I hope this helps. Also, make sure that you have the proper dictionary chosen in Tools-Options-Language Settings-Languages Hope this helps. - Paul On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 14:55, Malcolm Candlish wrote: Hello, Can any one suggest a method of getting OO Spell Checker in Mandrake 9.0 working. I have looked around without finding information, except at www.openoffice.org from whence I downloaded 'OOodi-static-0.55-0.i386.rpm'. However I simply cannot get it to run! I expect this has come up some where before, if so please let me know. With thanks in advance of your kind reading. Malcolm Candlish. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OpenOffice Spell Checker.
Having an installation only a few days old, this was new to me. I can confirm, however, that after installing the UK dictionary and hyphenation tool, and enabling them under Tools Options Language Settings Writing Aids the spellchecker picked up all the deliberately inserted mis-spellings. I have to say that when something does not work, my first thought is what am I doing wrong, or what have I failed to do? Anne On Tuesday 19 Nov 2002 10:31 pm, Francisco Alcaraz Ariza wrote: But runing properly the spell checker is as easy as to have the appropriate files in the wordbook directory and with the dictionary.lst well configured!; if you need some help about how to do it manually, ask me. Also the OOo-dicinstaller could do that automatically. I have OOo 1.0.1 runing fine under Mandrake 9.0, in fact in our laboratory we use it as major word-processor. El Mar 19 Nov 2002 22:28, Miark escribió: Craig, you can't be serious. Miark Mandrake's repair tool does not fix the problem. Just off topic, the Mandrake guys may have done this on purpose (as a ploy) to put you onto StarOffice (i.e. buy the PowerPack). Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OpenOffice Spell Checker.
On Wednesday 20 Nov 2002 3:44 am, Spencer wrote: On November 19, 2002 01:47 pm, Craig Williamson (ENZ) wrote Before anyone makes wild assumptions about what Mandrake did or did not do, please ensure that you have the appropriate OO help rpm installed, such as; file:/Cooker/Mandrake/RPMS/OpenOffice.org-help-en-1.0.1-9mdk.i586.rpm All spellchecking is enabled with installation of this rpm. No. I was having this rpm. But still spell check was not working. However as per post as given below relevant rpms for languages are installed. 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. It started working. I know that the mandrake guys are really clued up about what they do, maybe they did disable the spell checker on purpose, maybe it was a genuine mistake. If they did it on purpose, they would most likely try and push the fix to the solution as StarOffice (hence the powerpack statement) or possibly even the Mandrake Club. If true, it smells of a Microsoft tactic. Disable an important feature in a cheaper program, and push the solution as the more expensive option. It could also be a mistake, no bodies perfect. In my experiences with Mandrake9.0, there are a lot of bugs that keep me from completely dropping windows. This problem is pretty big for a lot of people, and I am sure that if Mandrake didn't ship StarOffice as well, OpenOffice would have been working correctly. This may be an oversight by mandrake in setting dependencies like drakefont working dependencies. Attributing motives by a few to mandrake guys is not in good taste. I think it may not be fact. -- 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] OpenOffice Spell Checker.
Title: RE: [newbie] OpenOffice Spell Checker. Hi There, I asked that question before. Not many people were forthcoming with suggestions. It seems like the spellchecker in Mandrake9.0 is corrupted. There is no possible way that I know to get it working. Redhat8.0's OpenOffice spellchecker had the same problem, but running the repair tool fixed this up. Mandrake's repair tool does not fix the problem. Just off topic, the Mandrake guys may have done this on purpose (as a ploy) to put you onto StarOffice (i.e. buy the PowerPack). I actually e-mailed the openoffice mailing list as well and their suggestion was to blow away the Mandrake version, and grab the 'official' version from the openoffice.org site. Hope this helps. Craig -Original Message- From: Malcolm Candlish [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 20 November, 2002 8:56 AM To: Mandrake List Subject: [newbie] OpenOffice Spell Checker. Hello, Can any one suggest a method of getting OO Spell Checker in Mandrake 9.0 working. I have looked around without finding information, except at www.openoffice.org from whence I downloaded 'OOodi-static-0.55-0.i386.rpm'. However I simply cannot get it to run! I expect this has come up some where before, if so please let me know. With thanks in advance of your kind reading. Malcolm Candlish.
Re: [newbie] OpenOffice Spell Checker.
Craig, you can't be serious. Miark Mandrake's repair tool does not fix the problem. Just off topic, the Mandrake guys may have done this on purpose (as a ploy) to put you onto StarOffice (i.e. buy the PowerPack). Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] OpenOffice Spell Checker.
Title: RE: [newbie] OpenOffice Spell Checker. Hi There, I can't be 100% certain about this. I know that the mandrake guys are really clued up about what they do, maybe they did disable the spell checker on purpose, maybe it was a genuine mistake. If they did it on purpose, they would most likely try and push the fix to the solution as StarOffice (hence the powerpack statement) or possibly even the Mandrake Club. If true, it smells of a Microsoft tactic. Disable an important feature in a cheaper program, and push the solution as the more expensive option. It could also be a mistake, no bodies perfect. In my experiences with Mandrake9.0, there are a lot of bugs that keep me from completely dropping windows. This problem is pretty big for a lot of people, and I am sure that if Mandrake didn't ship StarOffice as well, OpenOffice would have been working correctly. Any comments? Craig -Original Message- From: Miark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 20 November, 2002 10:28 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] OpenOffice Spell Checker. Craig, you can't be serious. Miark Mandrake's repair tool does not fix the problem. Just off topic, the Mandrake guys may have done this on purpose (as a ploy) to put you onto StarOffice (i.e. buy the PowerPack).
Re: [newbie] OpenOffice Spell Checker.
On November 19, 2002 01:47 pm, Craig Williamson (ENZ) wrote Before anyone makes wild assumptions about what Mandrake did or did not do, please ensure that you have the appropriate OO help rpm installed, such as; file:/Cooker/Mandrake/RPMS/OpenOffice.org-help-en-1.0.1-9mdk.i586.rpm All spellchecking is enabled with installation of this rpm. Please ensure that myspell is also installed. For some reason, these are not installed automatically when OO is originally installed. I included this rpm when I did the first install and spellchecking has worked properly since. Spence Hi There, I can't be 100% certain about this. I know that the mandrake guys are really clued up about what they do, maybe they did disable the spell checker on purpose, maybe it was a genuine mistake. If they did it on purpose, they would most likely try and push the fix to the solution as StarOffice (hence the powerpack statement) or possibly even the Mandrake Club. If true, it smells of a Microsoft tactic. Disable an important feature in a cheaper program, and push the solution as the more expensive option. It could also be a mistake, no bodies perfect. In my experiences with Mandrake9.0, there are a lot of bugs that keep me from completely dropping windows. This problem is pretty big for a lot of people, and I am sure that if Mandrake didn't ship StarOffice as well, OpenOffice would have been working correctly. Any comments? Craig -Original Message- From: Miark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 20 November, 2002 10:28 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] OpenOffice Spell Checker. Craig, you can't be serious. Miark Mandrake's repair tool does not fix the problem. Just off topic, the Mandrake guys may have done this on purpose (as a ploy) to put you onto StarOffice (i.e. buy the PowerPack). Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OpenOffice Spell Checker.
But runing properly the spell checker is as easy as to have the appropriate files in the wordbook directory and with the dictionary.lst well configured!; if you need some help about how to do it manually, ask me. Also the OOo-dicinstaller could do that automatically. I have OOo 1.0.1 runing fine under Mandrake 9.0, in fact in our laboratory we use it as major word-processor. El Mar 19 Nov 2002 22:28, Miark escribió: Craig, you can't be serious. Miark Mandrake's repair tool does not fix the problem. Just off topic, the Mandrake guys may have done this on purpose (as a ploy) to put you onto StarOffice (i.e. buy the PowerPack). -- Francisco Alcaraz Ariza Departamento de Biología Vegetal Universidad de Murcia E-30100 Murcia España (Spain) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OpenOffice Spell Checker.
I think we are infinitely more likely to fix such a problem than we are to upgrade ourselves out of it. And I think Mandrakesoft knows it. So if this were a tactic on MDK's part, it's a poor one. Also, a set-up like this would give fodder to anti open source factions, and propel the myth that proprietary apps are better. We all know that MDK lives and breathes the open source philosophy. They stand alone in that respect, I think. So I have to believe that MDK just made a mistake. They're smarter and more circumspect than to do this deliberately. Miark On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 08:47:03 +1100 Craig Williamson (ENZ) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi There, I can't be 100% certain about this. I know that the mandrake guys are really clued up about what they do, maybe they did disable the spell checker on purpose, maybe it was a genuine mistake. If they did it on purpose, they would most likely try and push the fix to the solution as StarOffice (hence the powerpack statement) or possibly even the Mandrake Club. If true, it smells of a Microsoft tactic. Disable an important feature in a cheaper program, and push the solution as the more expensive option. It could also be a mistake, no bodies perfect. In my experiences with Mandrake9.0, there are a lot of bugs that keep me from completely dropping windows. This problem is pretty big for a lot of people, and I am sure that if Mandrake didn't ship StarOffice as well, OpenOffice would have been working correctly. Any comments? Craig -Original Message- From: Miark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 20 November, 2002 10:28 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] OpenOffice Spell Checker. Craig, you can't be serious. Miark Mandrake's repair tool does not fix the problem. Just off topic, the Mandrake guys may have done this on purpose (as a ploy) to put you onto StarOffice (i.e. buy the PowerPack). Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OpenOffice Spell Checker.
Miark wrote: Craig, you can't be serious. Miark Mandrake's repair tool does not fix the problem. Just off topic, the Mandrake guys may have done this on purpose (as a ploy) to put you onto StarOffice (i.e. buy the PowerPack). They also force OO to use Canadian English by default. Why? Mandrake is a French company, and they are in league with French Canadians who want to make the world use Canadian English as a prelude to using Canadian French. It's all a Bonapartist conspiracy. I said it before and you all laughed at me. But they laughed at Galileo. They laughed at Niels Bohr. They laughed at Homer Simpson ... Blame Canada, blame Canada ... Sir Robin -- Do unto others what you would like others to do unto you. And have fun doing it. - Linus Torvalds Robin Turner IDMYO, Bilkent University Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OpenOffice Spell Checker.
Thanks for the 'heads-up, Robin! For the longest time, I have been trying to fugure out why whenever I misspelled 'he' as 'eh', the spell checker never picked it up as a mistake! T :-) - Original Message - From: Robin Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 5:52 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] OpenOffice Spell Checker. Miark wrote: Craig, you can't be serious. Miark Mandrake's repair tool does not fix the problem. Just off topic, the Mandrake guys may have done this on purpose (as a ploy) to put you onto StarOffice (i.e. buy the PowerPack). They also force OO to use Canadian English by default. Why? Mandrake is a French company, and they are in league with French Canadians who want to make the world use Canadian English as a prelude to using Canadian French. It's all a Bonapartist conspiracy. I said it before and you all laughed at me. But they laughed at Galileo. They laughed at Niels Bohr. They laughed at Homer Simpson ... Blame Canada, blame Canada ... Sir Robin -- Do unto others what you would like others to do unto you. And have fun doing it. - Linus Torvalds Robin Turner IDMYO, Bilkent University Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] OpenOffice Spell Checker.
What dictionary did you install? My OO spell checks quite well. Is it possible that you didn't install myspell and the dictionary for your language? They don't install by default. Joeb On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 15:47, Craig Williamson (ENZ) wrote: Hi There, I can't be 100% certain about this. I know that the mandrake guys are really clued up about what they do, maybe they did disable the spell checker on purpose, maybe it was a genuine mistake. If they did it on purpose, they would most likely try and push the fix to the solution as StarOffice (hence the powerpack statement) or possibly even the Mandrake Club. If true, it smells of a Microsoft tactic. Disable an important feature in a cheaper program, and push the solution as the more expensive option. It could also be a mistake, no bodies perfect. In my experiences with Mandrake9.0, there are a lot of bugs that keep me from completely dropping windows. This problem is pretty big for a lot of people, and I am sure that if Mandrake didn't ship StarOffice as well, OpenOffice would have been working correctly. Any comments? Craig -Original Message- From: Miark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 20 November, 2002 10:28 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] OpenOffice Spell Checker. Craig, you can't be serious. Miark Mandrake's repair tool does not fix the problem. Just off topic, the Mandrake guys may have done this on purpose (as a ploy) to put you onto StarOffice (i.e. buy the PowerPack). -- Joseph Braddock [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OpenOffice Spell Checker.
You need to go back and install myspell and the appropriate dictionary for you language. Joeb On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 13:55, Malcolm Candlish wrote: Hello, Can any one suggest a method of getting OO Spell Checker in Mandrake 9.0 working. I have looked around without finding information, except at www.openoffice.org from whence I downloaded 'OOodi-static-0.55-0.i386.rpm'. However I simply cannot get it to run! I expect this has come up some where before, if so please let me know. With thanks in advance of your kind reading. Malcolm Candlish. __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Joseph Braddock [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
