Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:59:31 -0800 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: do we have any grammar checkers for FBSD? Message-ID: <20081121205931.GA8633@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <44bpw8vr0a.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <20081121012115.GA68795@thought.org> <200811211203.29000.goksin.akdeniz@gmail.com> <20081121181108.GB98578@thought.org> <44bpw8vr0a.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 02:05:41PM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Gary Kline <kline@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 > > -- > 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
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