From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 21 19:59:43 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B62110656FC for ; Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:59:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bill@ayn.mi.celestial.com) Received: from ayn.mi.celestial.com (hayek.celestial.com [192.136.111.12]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77A248FC1C for ; Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:59:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bill@ayn.mi.celestial.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ayn.mi.celestial.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3283D686147A3; Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:59:43 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mi.celestial.com Received: from ayn.mi.celestial.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ayn.mi.celestial.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id ZrfNJBXssKKO; Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:59:43 -0800 (PST) Received: by ayn.mi.celestial.com (Postfix, from userid 203) id 0D2A4686147A2; Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:59:43 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:59:42 -0800 From: Bill Campbell To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20081121195942.GC25228@ayn.mi.celestial.com> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20081121012115.GA68795@thought.org> <200811211203.29000.goksin.akdeniz@gmail.com> <20081121172532.GA31728@ayn.mi.celestial.com> <20081121183222.GC98578@thought.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081121183222.GC98578@thought.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 OpenPKG/% (2008-05-17) Subject: Re: do we have any grammar checkers for FBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd@celestial.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:59:43 -0000 On Fri, Nov 21, 2008, Gary Kline wrote: >On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 09:25:32AM -0800, Bill Campbell wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 21, 2008, 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. >> >> Eons ago I used ``style'' and ``diction'' which were from the >> Bell Labs *roff text processing that were available on Xenix. I >> found them quite useful, but haven't seen them in years. > > hmmm! yeah, i probably have these that i swiped from SVR2 [shhh-h] > in 1986-7. i never used the roff stuff except in in idiot-mode, but i do > remember that joe <> came up with the tool for running-off > man pages. I'm enough of a curmudgeon that I still do the majority of my writing with vim using -mm macros. I have even written tools that convert these to docbook XML, at least to get a first cut without having to write all the XML markup. Bill -- INTERNET: bill@celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820 Fax: (206) 232-9186 Property must be secured, or liberty cannot exist. -- John Adams