From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 21 20:59:40 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 685B31065675 for ; Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:59:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from aristotle.thought.org (ns1.thought.org [209.180.213.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1106A8FC12 for ; Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:59:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from thought.org (tao.thought.org [10.47.0.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by aristotle.thought.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id mALL00dk059926; Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:00:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1002 kline@thought.org; Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:59:31 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:59:31 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: Lowell Gilbert Message-ID: <20081121205931.GA8633@thought.org> References: <20081121012115.GA68795@thought.org> <200811211203.29000.goksin.akdeniz@gmail.com> <20081121181108.GB98578@thought.org> <44bpw8vr0a.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <44bpw8vr0a.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 22 years of service to the Unix community. X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=3.6 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on aristotle.thought.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: do we have any grammar checkers for FBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:59:40 -0000 On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 02:05:41PM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Gary Kline 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 > > -- > Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area > http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org