On Nov 7, 2007 3:40 AM, Khyati Gupta wrote: > yes i did tried everything, from your help options, till ur website, and i
1: 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 that is used, create a set of paragraph, character, numbering, and page styles. Use those styles when creating, or editing documents. This way spell checking will be correctly done. Language specific styles also allow for transparent grammar checking from within OOo. * A template that contains the start of language specific styles can be found at http://www.esnips.com/web/OOoRelatedThings. * Uncheck "Spell check in all languages" unless you want your work to contain spelling errors. 2: 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 to the languages that you use. Different grammar checkers cover different languages. 3: IME Issues Note: The following versions of Windows are known for their monolingualism. Upgrade to Linux if you need to create multilingual documents. * Windows 98; * Windows 98 SE; * Windows ME; * Windows Vista Starter; * Windows Vista Home Basic; * Windows Vista Home Basic N; * Windows Vista Home Basic K * Windows Vista Home Basic KN * Windows Vista Home Premium; * Windows Vista Home Premium K: * Windows Vista Business; * Windows Vista Business N; * Windows Vista Business K * Windows Vista Business KN You may need an IME for the following writing systems: # CJKV: * Chinese; * Japanese; * Korean; * Vietnamese; # INDUS VALLEY WRITING SYSTEMS; * Devangari; * Sanskrit; * Tibetan; * Thai: # BiDI WRITING SYSTEMS; * Mongolian; * Arabic; * Hebrew; # BOUSTROPHEDOUN WRITING SYSTEMS; * Rongo Rongo OOo does not directly support Boustrophedoun Writing systems. [ This can be faked/emulated by using styles.] WINDOWS: For international keyboard support, refer to the following articles: * WinXP: http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/handson/user/xpintlsupp.mspx; * Win2003: http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/handson/user/xpintlsupp.mspx; * Win2K: http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/handson/user/2kintlsupp.mspx; For IMEs refer to the following article: http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/handson/user/IME_Paper.mspx The IMEs that Microsoft produces have the following issues: * One IME per language; * Require Microsoft Office to be installed; * Are not reliable for non-Microsoft programs; Commercial MIEs: * NJStar Communicator: http://www.mjstar.com : The virtue of this product is that it covers Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. FLOSS MIEs: * SCIM: http://www.scim-im.org/ : This product covers CKJV. Linux: My suggestion is to use SCIM. http://www.scim-im.org/ MACINTOSH: My suggestion is to use SCIM. http://www.scim-im.org/ xan jonathon -- OOo can not correct for incompetence in creating documents from MSO. Furthermore,OOo can not compensate for the defective and flawed security measures used by Microsoft. As such, before using this product for exams that require faulty and defective software, ensure that you will not be unjustly penalized for the incompetence of the organization that requires the use of software that is known to be flawed, defective, bug-ridden, and fails to meet ISO file format standards. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
