do we have any grammar checkers for FBSD?
Gary Kline
kline at thought.org
Fri Nov 21 12:59:40 PST 2008
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 02:05:41PM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> Gary Kline <kline at thought.org> writes:
>
> > On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 12:03:25PM +0000, Goksin Akdeniz wrote:
> >> On Friday 21 November 2008 01:21:20 Gary Kline wrote:
> >> >
> >> > If there is one with OOo-3, I haven't been able to build it yet....
> >> >
> >> > gary
> >>
> >> Hello Gary,
> >>
> >> Spellcheck and dictionary addons are avilable for OOo-3 but can not be
> >> installed due to bugs.
> >
> >
> > thanks for the datapoint. good to know these tools are en-route.
> > i'm working on some ye-olden texts that need updating to 21st century
> > english. ....
>
> They aren't really "en route". They are here, and they're working for me.
> The dictionaries are no longer installed with OpenOffice by default -- as
> I understand it, this is because there are now so many different languages
> that would need to be included.
>
> The documentation I used was at:
> http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Dictionaries
i Can understand the ``myriad dictionaries problem'' since OO
supports so many languages; but I'm looking for a grammar tool.
There was some rumble about a grammar-checker becoming available
sometime [like RSN:)] ... but so far nothing. --At the same
time, the GNU diction program has found several things. Havent
used that for ages.
gary
>
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