On February 09, 2005, Jonathan Blake said > There are _four_ grammar checkers available for OOo. Which one to use > depends upon the language that one wants to check the grammar in.
Are any of them for English? If so would someone please post a pointer? David Teague, Advocating Free Software and Double Bass tuned in fifths www.dennismasuzzo.com www.silviodallatorre.com www.joelquarrington.com/ For information on Red Mitchell, see http://home.teleport.com/~mimuma/ www.larryholloway.com http://cs.wcu.edu/~dbt ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jonathon Blake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <users@openoffice.org> Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 3:29 PM Subject: Re: [users] Which MS Office is OpenOffice Equivalent To? > Rich wrote: > > >i believe there is no msoffice 98, > > It is a Mac version of Office. Not knowing what it was, cost me a job in 2000. > > Bruce wrote: > > > Anyway, what's been added to MSO in the last few versions that makes a eight year old version significantly lacking? > > DRM > Collaborative Document Creation > Document Authentication > Unicode support has gotten better. > > > that people could still use MSO 6.0 and get their work done without any inconvenience. > > WordStar has most of the required functionality, and is _much_ faster > for document creation, once you know the WordStar Command Set. The > downside of WordStar is that it doesn't have styles. Everything is > the same color, and font. > > Jeffrey wrote: > > > lack of a grammar checker is a downside. > > There are _four_ grammar checkers available for OOo. Which one to use > depends upon the language that one wants to check the grammar in. > > > would be great if they were learning grammar in High School, > > You still need to know grammar, to when the grammar checker is wrong. > [The last time I used the grammar checker of Word, every single > instance of it highlighting "bad grammar", was, in fact, correct > grammar.] > > xan > > jonathon > -- > The lines move. > > A static treatment of the Changes would be something of a joke. > > Carrin Dunne > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
