do we have any grammar checkers for FBSD?

[Matt]

On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 2:59 PM, Gary Kline <kline at thought.org> wrote:
> 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
>
Well, there is http://www.languagetool.org/ available for OOo, but I
don't know how to get it installed due to the "bad transfer url" error
that's been reported [1] when installing extensions.  Any ideas
related to that?

[1] http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-openoffice/2008-October/003941.html
>>
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>> Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area
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