I do not think that the LO Extension Center would be a good place for
that. We need to keep non-LO packages off the LO Extension and Template
sites.
As for the Thesaurus in LibreOffice, well you need to install a
dictionary/thesaurus .oxt file as the easiest way to get one working
with LO. I know there are Thesaurus files in the Ubuntu repository, but
I do not know how to get LO to access them properly. There seems to be
several file formats for Ubuntu's internal/repository spelling and
thesaurus data files. LO must be able access them properly to use
them. Since Windows does not include such files, as far as I can tell,
would the developers create the coding for each type of Linux
dictionary/thesaurus repository based file formats when Mac and Windows
might not have them? Would these file be in all the Ubuntu, Debian, Red
Hat, openSUSE, etc, based distros, or only in some of them? I would not
want to be the one responsible for testing LO to see if it works with
each and every distro's repository-based spelling dictionary and
thesaurus files. It is much easier to just work with the ones enabled
through the installing of the .oxt file based ones.
http://libreoffice-na.us/English-3.4-installs/dictionary.html is the
list of all the .oxt dictionary and thesaurus files I know of, except
any new ones listed in the LO Extension Center that I have not listed
[yet]. There are over 200 dictionaries [last counted] listed, with over
20 localized Spanish ones. So, to be honest, I would rather deal with
using a .oxt file-based thesaurus and dictionary than try to get what
Ubuntu has to work with LO.
As for the question about stand-alone Thesaurus for Ubuntu, for now
Artha would be the easiest route to go. Install it, then run it. You
will not see it's window coming up normally. You have to do a
"ctrl-alt-w" to have the window pop up for use. The package stays in
memory, or partly, until you reboot [or at least as far as I know it
does]. I have used it a few times though. Actually it is more than
just a Thesaurus. There is a "Relatives" tab system that lists their
titles called: Synonyms, Antonyms, Derivatives, Related to, Attributes,
Similar, Domain, Causes, Entails, Kind of, Kinds, Part of, and Parts.
What all these options will show, I have no real clue, but they are listed.
On 02/03/2012 11:17 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
Hi :)
Ahh, i wasn't think of being that organised. I was just thinking of adding a
link to the page that we already have. That would make your Extensions page a
central point which would be great imo as there is a lot of great stuff there
and other packages are possibly not quite so good even before doing more work
on it.
Regards from
Tom :)
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Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] How to Enable Thesaurus
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Date: Friday, 3 February, 2012, 16:07
Sorry, Artha is not something I have dealt with, except testing it out
on my Ubuntu system.
If you think there needs to be a page listing all of the possible
dictionary and thesaurus options for Ubuntu and Windows, well if I have
the time I might think about doing one.
But for now, I have a good one for LO within my .oxt
dictionary/thesaurus/hyphenation files. Outside of LO, I thing Artha
might be a useful one.
On 02/03/2012 10:56 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
Hi :)
Would it be reasonably easy to add a link to the Artha one on Tim's dictionary
Extensions page? If that page could be a one-stop-shop it might be good for
keeping track of all those things and a good one to sign-post people to.
Regards from
Tom :)
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Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] How to Enable Thesaurus
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Date: Friday, 3 February, 2012, 15:00
On 02/02/2012 09:13 PM, Doug wrote:
On 2/2/2012 4:57 PM, Mick Sulley wrote:
Running -
LibreOffice 3.3.4
OOO330m19 (Build:401)
tag libreoffice-3.3.3.1, Ubuntu package 1:3.3.4-0ubuntu1
Language is English (UK)
How can I enable the Thesaurus?
If I go to Tools> Language, Thesaurus is greyed out
If I go to Tools> Options> Language Settings> Writing Aids
I see OpenOffice.org New Thesaurus and it is ticked.
Am I missing something here?
Thanks
Mick
Don't know about LO Thesaurus, but a nice free-standing one, which also doubles
as a dictionary, is Artha. Check your repos for that--it's in PCLOS.
--doug
Yes, I have Artha as a stand-alone one. You can get it off the distros as
well, and I believe there is a Windows version as well.
But if you need one to be used in LibreOffice, my set of English dictionaries
have one that has over 140,000 word/phrase listings to get a result from. All
you have to do is download and install one of my American English, British
English, or Canadian English, .oxt files and install it through the Extension
Manager.
You can get them at the Extension Center http://extensions.libreoffice.org/ and look for
the Dictionaries for any version. Or you can go to my portal and download them from
there. http://libreoffice-na.us/English-3.4-installs/dictionary.html#english They start
with "kpp" in the dictionary file list. There are a total of 11 dictionaries
to choose from. All you have to do is choose the version of English [American, British,
or Canadian], and choose the spelling word list count size [98K, 217K, 390K, and 638K
words in the list]. You can install all of them, but only keep one of each English
version enabled at a time. Hopefully, soon I will be uploading an update with about 1K
of computer technical words and terms that were missing from these word lists. I have
been busy so I will need a bit of time to make the updates available online in the
Extension Center and my portal.
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