ral Posted October 11, 2002 Report Share Posted October 11, 2002 Thanks guys, the fix worked for me :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ral Posted October 12, 2002 Report Share Posted October 12, 2002 Oh oh...its not working again and can't get it to work again... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonMage Posted October 19, 2002 Report Share Posted October 19, 2002 Ok Guys and Gals. I finally found out how to enable the spell check in openoffice in Mandrake 9.0. 1. Make sure that you have the appropriate dictionary and hyphenations rpm installed. 2. Now, open up openoffice, go to tools -> options 3. Go to openoffice.org -> Paths. then edit the Dictionary path to /usr/share/dict/ooo 4. Make sure that you got the right language setup in Language settings -> Languages, and got the tickmarks ticked in Language Settings -> Writing Aids. 5. Now you should have spellcheck working. Anyway, if the setting doesn't keep, try deleting the /home/user/.openoffice directory, then restart openoffice and edit the options around. I made all my changes stay, with exception of the 109% view scale trick. Now could you test if my theory on this is right? If it is, put a copy in trick and tips or tutorial. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ral Posted October 20, 2002 Report Share Posted October 20, 2002 Worked for awhile altough I had to follow the delete the OpenOffice diretory in home option. Also you have to select Canadian English. If you select US English it marks all words as mispelled and does not offer suggested replacements. The problem is after you restart OpenOffice it seems to think it does have the Canadian English package installed and the spellchecker no longer works. If you check the languages in options it indicates that there is support for US English. If you sellect this than the spell checkers works, but again indicating all words as mispelled. Now this setting does stick. The contents of my usr/dict/ooo directory are: dictionary.lst en_CA.aff en_CA.dic th_en_US.dat th_en_US.idx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ral Posted October 23, 2002 Report Share Posted October 23, 2002 Okay by deleting the (1) OpenOffice folder, (2) editing the patch of Open office from /usr/share/dict to usr/shr/dict/ooo and (3) selecting Canadian English I can get the spell checker working for one session. Next time I launch OpenOffice it will have English (USA) selevted instead of English canadia. I checked out: file:/home/ral/.openoffice/user/config/registry/instance/org/openoffice/Office/Linguistic.xml And the first line reads en-CAsoffice.dic sun.dic The contents of my usr/dict/ooo directory are: dictionary.lst en_CA.aff en_CA.dic th_en_US.dat th_en_US.idx Could this be the source of the problem? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonMage Posted October 23, 2002 Report Share Posted October 23, 2002 Sorry if this offends you, but I have to ask this question. Why Canadian English if you are not Canadian? Yes, I know that Canadians in general speak better English than Americans, but isn't it a lot easier just to install the US English dictionaries if you just want spell checking ability? All you got to do is just install these rpms if you want to make sure that it has spellchecking capabilities in US, Canadian and UK English. myspell-en_US-1.0.1-0.20020626.4mdk myspell-hyph-en-1.0.1-0.20020727.4mdk myspell-en_GB-1.0.1-0.20020903.4mdk myspell-en_CA-1.0.1-0.20020315.4mdk Anyway let's do a bit of comparison.. I put the Local Setting to Canadian English and this is the first line in /home/dmage/.openoffice/user/config/registry/instance/org/openoffice/Office/Lingustic.xml <DefaultLocale cfg:type="string">en-US</DefaultLocale> and in ~/.openoffice/user/config/registry/instance/org/openoffice/Setup.xml <ooLocale cfg:type="string">en-US</ooLocale> <ooSetupCurrency cfg:type="string">CAD-en-CA</ooSetupCurrency> <ooSetupSystemLocale cfg:type="string">en-CA</ooSetupSystemLocale> Which means that no matter what I do, the default language for documents will always be US English, but the local will be English Canada.. Anyway, to continue the comparison, this is my dictionary listing in /usr/share/dict/ooo/ dictionary.lst en_CA.dic en_GB.dic en_US.dic th_en_US.dat en_CA.aff en_GB.aff en_US.aff hyph_en.dic th_en_US.idx Oh.. it seems that the language setting is saved to document. If you load a document saved in Canadian English setting, then OO will keep the setting and load the approppriate spellcheck dictionary. Anyway.. If you install all three dictionaries, be sure to enable them by going to option -> Language Settings -> Writing Aids. Press the edit button besides Available Language modules box and Put tickmarks into all the available language (In my case it's English USA, English Canada and English UK). The Canadian English spellcheck should work once you put the document into the Canadian English setting. Sorry I cannot help you any more than this.. I am having problems with mandrake's implementation of openoffice too. but I manage to make it usable enough for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ral Posted October 24, 2002 Report Share Posted October 24, 2002 Actually, I used it because it is the only one that worked, and only works if I delete the OO.o folder in my home directory and dothe changes you suggested. After I close OO.o, well it stops working. Looks like I may be missing files in my Dict folder. I don't suppose I can downlaod the US dict somewhere? Think I will try unisnatalling and reisntalling the en language module. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonMage Posted October 24, 2002 Report Share Posted October 24, 2002 The myspell rpms I mentioned should be in your mandrake 9.0 disks. If not, check rpmfind.net or something.. Those rpms I wrote above is basically what I got when typing rpm -qa |grep myspell Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ab2ms Posted October 24, 2002 Report Share Posted October 24, 2002 Just installed the rpm's off the cd's (2 and 3) and finally got my spellchecker working... even after a restart. Must not be a default to install the proper files....... but that is what this board is for! figuring out the solutions 8) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ral Posted October 24, 2002 Report Share Posted October 24, 2002 Installed a myspell-en and myspell-gb of the second CDRom. Looks like that did the trick. Thanks Dragon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ral Posted October 24, 2002 Report Share Posted October 24, 2002 It work, closed and started again several times it worked...with US English. But it stoped working again. Okay my dict/ooo folder now looks like this: /usr/share/dict/ooo/ dictionary.lst en_CA.dic en_GB.dic en_US.dic th_en_US.dat en_CA.aff en_GB.aff en_US.aff th_en_US.idx Sigh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ral Posted October 24, 2002 Report Share Posted October 24, 2002 Okay, I got it working this time for real. I .change the path back to /dict form /dict/ooo and it works... :) Have rebooted and log out several times and it still works. Phew. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonMage Posted October 24, 2002 Report Share Posted October 24, 2002 Coolness, now should I copy the information to tips and tricks (just so that it's easier to find) or just leave the information in this topic? Or would someone else who is better at technical writing write one for me? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest viewsonic Posted October 24, 2002 Report Share Posted October 24, 2002 HOWTO: Get OpenOffice.org 1.0.0 Spell check to work in Mandrake Linux 9.0 The following assumes that OO was installed as part of your Mandrake install and spell check does not work: 1.Uninstall OpenOffice.org-1.0.1-9mdk and OpenOffice.org-l10n-en-1.0.1 using Mandrake Control Center>Remove Software>Software Packages Removal. 2.Delete /home/user/.openoffice. 3.Install myspell-en_US-1.0.1-0.20020626.4mdk AND reinstall OpenOffice.org-1.0.1-9mdk and OpenOffice.org-l10n-en-1.0.1 using Mandrake Control Center>Install Software>Software Packages Installation. You should not have to alter your path or anything else in Tools>Options. Disclamer: I got this info from alt.os.linux.mandrake Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ral Posted October 25, 2002 Report Share Posted October 25, 2002 I think we should post three possible fixes in one post: First: Try adding my-spell-en_US-xxxxx Second: Try altering the dict/ to dict/ooo if this still does not work. Third: Try the method proposed by Viesonic. It seems that different things worked for different people. This is probably because we install M9 differently. I do a custom install with KDE only. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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