Openoffice 3.0.0 - spellchecker not functioning

[Nikola Lečić]

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On Fri, 07 Nov 2008 14:17:25 +0000
Craig Butler <craig001 at lerwick.hopto.org> wrote:
 
> On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 18:13 +0000, Mike Clarke wrote:
> > I've installed en-openoffice.org-GB-3.0.0 from ports on my 6.4-RC1 
> > system. The install, using the command  
> > portinstall  -m "LOCALIZED_LANG=en-GB -DWITH_KDE" 
> > editors/openoffice.org-3, appeared to complete OK and I can 
> > run /usr/local/bin/openoffice.org-3.0.0-swriter but attempts to
> > check spelling in a document with known spelling errors always fail
> > to find any errors.
> > 
> > The "Available language modules" section in Tools - Options -
> > Language Settings - Writing Aids" is empty, unlike my copy of
> > Openoffice 2.3 which has 3 entries in this section.
> > 
> > Should the language modules have been installed or have I missed 
> > anything when installing the port?
> > 
> 
> Hi Mike,
> 
> Don't think ya missed anything, I am in the same boat...
> I also compiled with the LOCALIZED_LANG=en-GB flag.
> 
> Anybody with a solution ? my spelling isn't that good so would need to
> spell check my documents.

I have sr-openoffice.org-3.1.20081009/, i.e. openoffice.org-3-devel
compiled with

  'editors/openoffice*' => [
	'LOCALIZED_LANG=sr',
	'WITHOUT_CUPS=yes',
	'WITH_SYSTEM_FREETYPE=yes',
	'WITH_SYSTEM_ICU=yes',
  ]

on FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE #0: Sun Oct 12 (i386) and I have all 3
sections in Tools -> Options -> Language Settings -> Writing Aids.

The OpenOffice.org dictionaries page says:

	IMPORTANT NOTE: From OpenOffice.org 3.0 on the dictionary wizard
	is not longer available -- Dictionaries are now available via
	the extensions repository.

		[http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Dictionaries]

So, the OpenOffice.org-3 users are supposed to download .oxt files and
run them. However, I experienced the 'bad transfer url' problem with all
extension files; this was reported on FreeBSD mailing lists in the past
with no available solution.

Happily, the instruction from the same page (DictOOo-Wizard, intended
for OpenOffice.org-2) worked just fine in my OpenOffice-3. I downloaded

  http://ftp.services.openoffice.org/pub/OpenOffice.org/contrib/dictionaries/dicooo/DicOOo.sxw

and it worked like a charm, installing Hunspell Spellchecker module and
dictionary files.

Hope this helps.

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