| Checking OpenOffice documents for correct spelling in your mothers' tongue
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13 Jan 05 |
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Having completed the TagCleaner, so I
could clean HTML output from OpenOffice, I noticed I still hadn’t
gotten around getting the Dutch spell-checker to work under SuSe Linux. In
complexity of configuration OpenOffice sometimes matches commercial office
suites… sigh. Documentation exists, but it is a bit hard to find, it
took me half an hour to get to it.
These are the steps (for OpenOffice 1.02):
- go to yast, and install myspell-dutch (or your own language instead of
dutch :-)). Installing the package updates your open office dictionary
configuration file (dictionary.lst) automatically.
- add the dutch dictionary (and hyphenation list if you want to) by going to
Tools->Options->Language->writing aids. Behind the
‘edit’ button on the right you can then add the dutch
dictionary. More details for this step are outlined here: distribution.openoffice.org/cdrom/Dictionaries.html
- to use the dictionary in your document, you have to change the language,
which is un-intuitively hidden behind Format->Character, where you have
to look in the Font tab, where there is a ‘language’ drop-down
list. I wonder how it ended up there… I would have expected this
feature in paragraph styles under ‘language’, which
doesn’t exist.
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