On Sunday June 24 2007 2:20 am, jonathon wrote: > JM Shannon wrote: > > I realy like Open Office but is there or am I over looking > > "spelling & grammar checker"? > > Spell checking is built in. > > a) Install the appropriate dictionaries, thesauri, and > hyphenation dictionaries. > ">File >Wizards >Install new dictionaries" should bring up > the tool for installing dictionaries. > * This tool will automatically check to see if it is the > most current version. If it is not, then it will ask if you > want to update to the current version. > * The user interface for version 1.7 is in 27 languages; > * It lists roughly 120 dictionaries for spell checking; > ** There are some ---probably less than a dozen --- > dictionaries for OOo that are not listed in this tool. For > the most part, the unlisted dictionaries are very new, very > specialized, or very large. > * Only install dictionaries etc that you use, and need. > OOo performance can be severely degraded if too many > dictionaries, etc are installed. [My experience is that > performance degradation is noticeable at around 5 > dictionaries, and is complete at around 100 dictionaries. > The amount of RAM, and your chip speed will affect the > performance degradation.] > > b) Create and use language specific styles; > * For each language, you need to create a set of styles. > When you write, use those styles. This way spell checking > will be correctly done. With language specific styles, > grammar checking can be transparently done. > > Obsolete stuff: > > * DictInstall is obsolete, and works only on Windows. It can > be obtained from http://ooodocs.sourceforge.net/dictinstall/ > > > Grammar Checking > > You can find a list of grammar checkers at > http://lingucomponent.openoffice.org/grammar.html > > You can find an article on installing LanguageTool at > http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/04/27/2033202 > > Note: Select your grammar checker according tot he > languages that you use. Different grammar checkers cover > different languages. > > xan > > jonathon
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