OpenOffice lacks spellchecking

[DavidMcCann]

I've discovered that my OpenOffice is not checking the spelling. I'd installed Hunspell, so it wasn't that. A search revealed I had no dictionary.

I have my own customised dictionary, which would normally (e.g. Fedora, Debian) live in /usr/share/myspell, but there's no such place. Googling suggested putting them in ~/.openoffice.org/.../wordbook, but that doesn't work. I tried ~/openoffice.org/.../uno_packages, but I didn't really expect that to work, as it's meant for internal use.

Then I went to the OO site to look for a dictionary; once it was installed I could find it and overwrite it. No British English.

Does anyone has an answer to this?

[gapan]

I thought you had it figured out: http://www.salixos.org/forum/viewtopic. ... 59&p=11370

[DavidMcCann]

I'd forgotton that one! That was when I was trying Salix in the guest partition of my desktop. Now I've installed in on my notebook, and the old remedy does not work.

As I said in another post, this is the 8th day of trying to get Salix functional. It looked great when I was just testing, but now I'm trying to set it up for real use things are not looking so good. If a distro is going to include a word processor, it needs to include all the relevant bits: like spell checking.

[gapan]

The way described in the wiki still works for me.

And in any case, if you believe that spelling support should be included in openoffice langpacks, go ask the openoffice developers why they have removed it from their langpack packages.

[DavidMcCann]

It seems I owe an apology. I didn't realise that OO had removed spellchecking and set up an obstacle course for installing it because, although Fedora 14 has OO 3.3, Red Hat have very wisely put things back as they were.

[mimosa]

Very soon it will be Libreoffice anyway - that's what's in 13.2 beta. I can't remember what the latest position is, but nonetheless, once you know you might need to install it yourself, it isn't hard. What is always hard is what you don't know you don't know, as Donald Rumsfeld more or less astutely observed, for once in his life, even if he may have been widely ridiculed for saying so. I suppose the rub is the grey area between what you don't know you don't know and what you wrongly imagine to be the case. Or is that a tautology? It's certainly a slippery slope.