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Borelia

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Registered: 2006-06-06

Posts: 15

OpenOffice 2.2

Hi folks no opportunity to download "dicts" in openoffice 2.2. What is
the idea behind compiling Openoffice --without-myspell-dicts-?

berbae

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From: France

Registered: 2007-02-12

Posts: 1,302

Re: OpenOffice 2.2

Hi Borelia
At the end of the installation by pacman this message is written, among others :

en_US spellchecker is no more included. a separate pkg is available now.
"pacman -S openoffice-spell-en" if you need it.

I presume it's for size reason, and it gives the choice of the dictionary languages to choose to install.
In the extra repository there are german, english, spanish, french, dutch, portuguese, russian, swedish spell packages.

pressh

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From: Netherlands

Registered: 2005-08-14

Posts: 1,719

Re: OpenOffice 2.2

Also look in the AUR for even more languages like hebrew, norwegian, greek, and much more

grizz

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Registered: 2007-03-14

Posts: 49

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Re: OpenOffice 2.2

Hi folks no opportunity to download "dicts" in openoffice 2.2. What is
the idea behind compiling Openoffice --without-myspell-dicts-?

Simple... you instal that dicts what YOU want, not developers.

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julemand101

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From: Denmark

Registered: 2005-11-25

Posts: 16

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Re: OpenOffice 2.2

The problem is this dicts is to old and some dicts are updated every day. You can't make a packages with a stable md5sum. And why remove the options to install dicts in openoffice? In openoffice 2.0.4 you could use openoffice-spell-** without any problem OR use the guide without any problem.

Now I must download DicOOo.sxw manual here:
http://ftp.services.openoffice.org/pub/ … DicOOo.sxw

To get danish dict. there are updated. I can't understand the problem with include DicOOo.sxw in the openoffice-base packages.

(Sorry for my bad english)

Last edited by julemand101 (2007-04-05 09:44:44)

berbae

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From: France

Registered: 2007-02-12

Posts: 1,302

Re: OpenOffice 2.2

julemand101, you have a danish dictionary for Openoffice in the AUR.
See it there :  http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?d … s=0&SeB=nd

Edit: Sorry I just realize that you are the maintainer

Last edited by berbae (2007-04-05 12:54:14)

julemand101

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From: Denmark

Registered: 2005-11-25

Posts: 16

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Re: OpenOffice 2.2

yes yes, I know I am the maintainer of openoffice-spell-da but why not include DicOOo.sxw in openoffice-base so ALL users can find and install all dicts and not wait to somebody make a package.

Borelia

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Registered: 2006-06-06

Posts: 15

Re: OpenOffice 2.2

berbae & pressh and grizz - there would be nothing to worry about if it was my own computer, I can fix that, but I was installing Arch on 4 computers the other day including Openoffice for other people. It is much more simple to explain to a person using Arch, how to install a  danish dictionary over the phone the old way compared to how it is now. Honestly it is going backwards.

iBertus

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From: Greenville, NC

Registered: 2004-11-04

Posts: 2,228

Re: OpenOffice 2.2

Old way? As long as I can remember, Arch hasn't packaged any dictionaries with OOo and has always had openoffice-spell-XX packages to handle this. The only exception was en_US which was included in base.

julemand101

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From: Denmark

Registered: 2005-11-25

Posts: 16

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Re: OpenOffice 2.2

berbae & pressh and grizz - there would be nothing to worry about if it was my own computer, I can fix that, but I was installing Arch on 4 computers the other day including Openoffice for other people. It is much more simple to explain to a person using Arch, how to install a  danish dictionary over the phone the old way compared to how it is now. Honestly it is going backwards.

Yes, and not only that. In lots of guides are there something like this:

To install a new dictionary, call "File -> Wizards -> Install new dictionaries" in OpenOffice.org. Then exit and re-start OpenOffice.org, including the Quickstarter (if used)

But because the Wizard are removed can people not use this guides. I think I have used 1-2 hour yesterday to find out why the wizard are lost.

julemand101

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From: Denmark

Registered: 2005-11-25

Posts: 16

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Re: OpenOffice 2.2

Old way? As long as I can remember, Arch hasn't packaged any dictionaries with OOo and has always had openoffice-spell-XX packages to handle this. The only exception was en_US which was included in base.

This is first time Arch Linux has remove the Wizard to "Install new dictionaries".

dezza

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From: Denmark

Registered: 2007-04-05

Posts: 126

Re: OpenOffice 2.2

I hate the OpenOffice dictionary installation wizards, they are buggy, they are ugly, they are unprofessional, they never make it easy for the user to switch language, none of my friends, family, or other related people like OpenOffice because of it's bad dictionary install wizard and the tricky way to switch between dicts.

Borelia

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Registered: 2006-06-06

Posts: 15

Re: OpenOffice 2.2

Easy to use and it is working first time? I showed it to a 65 year old person the other day, and she found it quite easy to use. !!

iphitus

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2004-10-09

Posts: 4,927

Re: OpenOffice 2.2

afaik the dictionaries are available in pacman, so pacman -S openoffice-spell-whatever

James