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| If Spellcheck, still, not working</a></h2> |
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| From: Kevin B. Hendricks <kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca> |
| Subject: Re: [users] question (spellcheck still not working) |
| Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 09:28:26 -0500 |
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| Hi, |
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| I'm the author of the spellchecking system with which some seem to be having trouble. |
| I really want to nail down what is going wrong. |
| |
| > Apart from that, the spellchecker dialog presents every word |
| > of 2 or more characters as an "Unknown word". After clicking the |
| > "confirm (ABC tick)" button, the "Language" list box changes from |
| > "English (AU)" to "English (USA)", I then click on the "Add" button and |
| > the checker moves to the next "Unknown word". |
| > It is as if the checker is learning the language. I am not sure where |
| > the checked words are being saved - soffice [All] perhaps. When I rerun |
| > the checker, it skips the words it has already checked. |
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| <p>No, this is wrong -- you are mixing two different types of dictionaries.<br /> |
| <br /> |
| Spellchecking *does* work and you do *not* need to add every word to a user specified dictionary. If you do, <br /> |
| you will simply interfere with the proper operation of other dictionaries and create bloat.<br /> |
| <br /> |
| Assuming we are talking about a Linux system (we can modify these steps for Windows). Please do the following <br /> |
| to test the spell checking system from scratch: We will delete any old or partially installed dictionariesand re-install <br /> |
| them from known, good copies and go from there)<br /> |
| <br /> |
| 1. Start with OOo1.0.1 or OOo643C (english only), spellchecking in OOo1.0.0 has too many bugs. <br /> |
| Please upgrade, if at all possible.<br /> |
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| 2. Exit out of OpenOffice and Quickstarter (make sure neither is running).<br /> |
| <br /> |
| 3. Next, let's remove any old dictionary files of any sort. (you may have to be root to perform this step):<br /> |
| cd PLACE_YOU_INSTALLED_OPENOFFICE/share/dict/ooo<br /> |
| rm *.dic<br /> |
| rm *.aff<br /> |
| rm dictionary.lst<br /> |
| <br /> |
| [as user]<br /> |
| cd YOUR_USER_SPECIFIC_LOCATION/user/wordbook/<br /> |
| rm *.dic<br /> |
| rm *.aff<br /> |
| rm dictionary.lst<br /> |
| <br /> |
| 4. Using en_GB as an example, ... go to http://lingucomponent.openoffice.org/download_dictionary.html <br /> |
| and download to your computer:<br /> |
| en_GB.zip<br /> |
| hyph_en.zip<br /> |
| en_US.zip<br /> |
| <br /> |
| 5. cd PLACE_YOU_INSTALLED_OPENOFFICE/share/dict/ooo<br /> |
| unzip PATH_TO/en_GB.zip<br /> |
| unzip PATH_TO/en_US.zip<br /> |
| unzip PATH_TO/hyph_en.zip<br /> |
| (this will create en_GB.dic and en_GB.aff in share/dict/ooo/ and <br /> |
| replace the en_US.aff, en_US.dic, and hyph_en.dic that came with OOo |
| originallywhich you deleted in step 3 above)<br /> |
| <br /> |
| 6. create a completely new dictionary.lst file at this location just in case the old one is messed up somehow:<br /> |
| echo "DICT en GB en_GB" > dictionary.lst<br /> |
| echo "HYPH en GB hyph_en" >> dictionary.lst<br /> |
| echo "THES en GB th_en_US" >> dictionary.lst<br /> |
| echo "DICT en US en_US" >> dictionary.lst<br /> |
| echo "HYPH en US hyph_en" >> dictionary.lst<br /> |
| echo "THES en US th_en_US" >> dictionary.lst<br /> |
| [Note: you can do this with a text editor, if preferred.]<br /> |
| <br /> |
| 7. If you did all of this, then share/dict/ooo/ should look like the following:<br /> |
| dictionary.lst<br /> |
| en_GB.aff<br /> |
| en_GB.dic<br /> |
| en_US.dic<br /> |
| en_US.aff<br /> |
| hyph_en.dic<br /> |
| th_en_US.dat<br /> |
| th_en_US.idx<br /> |
| <br /> |
| and dictionary.lst should look like this:<br /> |
| DICT en GB en_GB<br /> |
| HYPH en GB hyph_en<br /> |
| THES en GB th_en_US<br /> |
| DICT en US en_US<br /> |
| HYPH en US hyph_en<br /> |
| THES en US th_en_US<br /> |
| <br /> |
| 8. After double-checking that steps 1 to 7 have been done, then start up OOo (and quickstarter if you use it).<br /> |
| <br /> |
| 9. Go immediately to: Tools->Options->LanguageSettings->WritingAids<br /> |
| Hit "Edit" and use the *pull down* menu to select your locale<br /> |
| DO NOT FORGET TO HIT THE EDIT BUTTON AND USE THE LOCALE PULLDOWN and then, |
| make sure to check the box beside the MySpell Spell Checker for that locale, as well as hyphenator and theasurus, |
| if so desired.Then, once those are checked you should see checkboxes with ABC beside both en(US) and en(UK).<br /> |
| <br /> |
| 10. Now, to test if this has worked, do NOT open any previous document but simply go to an empty Writer doc (should be on screen already ) |
| and type the following lines:<br /> |
| This is a line of text in American, and<br /> |
| this is a line of text in British.<br /> |
| Then highlight both lines and use the Font pull-down menu and select a font you know absolutely certain is installed on your machine (i.e., |
| do NOT select Thorndale!). I chose Courier on my machine for this test.<br /> |
| <br /> |
| 11. Highlight the first line of the file and go to Format->Character->Font<br /> |
| and using the language pulldown menu select "en (US)" (you should see a<br /> |
| little check with ABC by it).<br /> |
| <br /> |
| 12. Highlight the second line of the file and go to Format->Character->Font and use the pulldown menu and select "en (UK)" (it should |
| also have a little check ABC beside it).<br /> |
| <br /> |
| 13. Then, once all of this is done, please put your cursor at the very beginning of this document and using Tools, tell it to spellcheck the |
| document.<br /> |
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| You should immediately see a spelling error with "linee" in a window with "line" as one of the suggestions (this is the spellling error in |
| the American line) and then once you replace that you should in fact see the exact same window (this time for the British spelling error) |
| which you can then replace.<br /> |
| <br /> |
| You should have now spellchecked a document successfully in two different languages in one pass. I have tested all of these procedures on my |
| machine and it works 100% of the time for me.<br /> |
| <br /> |
| If you have followed these instructions exactly and don't see what I see, then we have a bug I need to track down. Please contact me directly |
| with exactly what happened at each step and we can figure out why spellchecking is not working for you.<br /> |
| <br /> |
| Kevin</p> |
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