Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OpenOffice-bin spell checking?

[Mark Knecht]

On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 12:18 AM, Zoltán Füves <zoleexfz@×××××.com> wrote:
> 2009/2/25 Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>:
>> Is OO really so stupid that it makes you add by hand for each user an
>> extension spelling library from /usr/lib/openoffice/extension/install
>> to get a spelling checker to work?
>
> Sorry about that but I have the same problem with OO3  and in my
> install I didn't find this directory. So somehow can I fix it in
> openoffice 3? Actually I need the hunspell support and it looks like
> to configured but I cant use it in the main programs :( .
>
> thanks for your help
> Z.
>
>
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 8:03 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>   I emerged eselect-oodict and it acts like it's doing something but
>>> still I don't see any dictionaries in
>>>
>>> Tools->Options->Language Settings->Writing Aids
>>>
>>>   Under Languages I have selected English (USA)
>>>
>>>   Is there something else I have to turn on to get spell checking
>>> working for my wife? I do not see the entry this person has in the
>>> upper box. Why not? I seem to have hunspell installed and it says it's
>>> a replacement for myspell. Does it work? What's the special trick?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Mark
>>>
>>>
>>> dragonfly ~ # eselect oodict show
>>> OpenOffice.org configured dictionaries
>>>  [1]   myspell
>>>    Configured language codes from /usr/share/myspell:
>>>      en
>>> dragonfly ~ # eselect oodict unset myspell-en
>>> dragonfly ~ # eselect oodict show
>>> OpenOffice.org configured dictionaries
>>>  (none)
>>> dragonfly ~ # eselect oodict set myspell-en
>>> dragonfly ~ # eselect oodict show
>>> OpenOffice.org configured dictionaries
>>>  [1]   myspell
>>>    Configured language codes from /usr/share/myspell:
>>>      en
>>> dragonfly ~ #
>>>
>>> dragonfly ~ # eix -Ic spell
>>> [I] app-dicts/aspell-en (6.0.0@08/10/2007): English (US, British,
>>> Canadian) language dictionary for aspell
>>> [I] app-dicts/myspell-en (20081002@02/24/2009): English dictionaries
>>> for myspell/hunspell
>>> [I] app-text/aspell (0.60.5@08/27/2007): A spell checker replacement for ispell
>>> [I] app-text/gnome-spell (1.0.8(1)@07/27/2008): Gnome spellchecking component
>>> [I] app-text/hunspell (1.2.8@01/28/2009): Hunspell spell checker - an
>>> improved replacement for myspell in OOo.
>>> Found 5 matches.
>>> dragonfly ~ #

Hi Zoltan,
   Sorry for the problems.

   OK, on all my machines there are extension dictionaries located at

/usr/lib/openoffice/share/extension/install/

lightning ~ # ls /usr/lib/openoffice/share/extension/install/
dict-en.oxt  dict-es.oxt  dict-fr.oxt

   When I first searched for who put them there equery doesn't seem to
tell me what package they come from:

lightning ~ # equery belongs
/usr/lib/openoffice/share/extension/install/dict-en.oxt
[ Searching for file(s)
/usr/lib/openoffice/share/extension/install/dict-en.oxt in *... ]
lightning ~ #

But this is a 64-bit system and /usr/lib is a link to /usr/lib64. When
I use that path it says OpenOffice provided them:

lightning ~ # equery belongs
/usr/lib64/openoffice/share/extension/install/dict-en.oxt
[ Searching for file(s)
/usr/lib64/openoffice/share/extension/install/dict-en.oxt in *... ]
app-office/openoffice-bin-3.0.0
(/usr/lib64/openoffice/share/extension/install/dict-en.oxt)
lightning ~ #

QUESTION TO ALL: Is this is equery bug that it doesn't trace links or
is there an option somewhere to tell it to do that? (Not reading the
man page right now)

   Hopefully you can do a search for dict-en.oxt and find your copy
but if it's really not there and you cannot find it on some other
machine then there does seem to be another possibility. It you start
OOwriter and go to Tools->Extension Manager then I see a link in the
bottom left that says 'Get more extensions here'. Clicking on that
took me to the OpenOffice web site and there you can find a search bar
on the left. If I type 'English Dictionary' or US English' and do the
search I come up with a number of options I can download. I haven't
tested it but I suspect that you save them somewhere and then load
them in the Extension Manager to make them active. I don't know how
those dictionaries differ from the one supplied with openoffice-3.0

   I see lots of other dictionaries, as well as page formatting
templates and stuff for calc. Maybe those will be of interest also.

   Note that new extensions do not seem to become active until you
close and restart writer.

Hope this helps,
Mark