[Mageia-discuss] Spell checkers on Libre Office

[Sigrid Carrera]

Hi Alejandro, *, 

On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 11:00:31 +0200
Alejandro López <listas.apl at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Florian Hubold <doktor5000 at arcor.de> wrote:
> > Am 14.09.2011 10:07, schrieb Alejandro López:
> >>
> >> As I got not one answer for this question, I presume I asked in the
> >> wrong list. Can someone tell me which would be the right list?
> >>
> >> 2011/9/11 Alejandro López<listas.apl at gmail.com>:
> >>>
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> I have my system running in spanish and LibreOffice was correctly
> >>> installed
> >>> in spanish and spell checker is working fine.
> >>>
> >>> However, I usually write documents also in french and english. I'm trying
> >>> to
> >>> install the dictionaries for those extra languages without success. Are
> >>> there packages in mageia for that? I tried with the
> >>> libreoffice-langpack-*
> >>> packages but when I try to select any of them I get this error:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> -----------------------------------------------------
> >>> Following package cannot be selected:
> >>>
> >>> libreoffice-langpack-fr-3.3.3.1-0.1.mga1.i586 (because
> >>> libreoffice-core[==
> >>> 3.3.3.1-0.1.mga1] is not satisfied)
> >>> -----------------------------------------------------
> >>>
> >>> and the package is deselected. Needless to say that the libreoffice-core
> >>> package I have installed in my system is exactly 3.3.3.1-0.1.mga1...
> >>>
> >>> My questions are:
> >>>
> >>> - are the langpack packages the way to install dictionaries?

No, usually you need to install the corresponding extension
(.oxt-file). 
You can find extensions here:
http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/ Yes, this is an
openoffice-link, but those extensions work for libreoffice as well.
(If you experience any problems with the download (like a timeout),
just hit reload as many times as possible. There are a few problems
with the availability of the server...

> >>>
> >>> - If yes, why then I get this error message?
> >>> - If not, which is then the right method for installing dictionaries?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Thanks in advance.
> >>> Alejandro.
> >>>
> > I'm not into libreoffice, but i think it uses myspell dictionaries.
> > The libreoffice-fr package only contains french translations of libreoffice,
> > AFAIK. You want myspell-fr_FR and one of the myspell-en_ variants
> > (en_GB, en_US, en_ZA ...)

Florian, I'm not sure that libreoffice uses myspell. I thought it
uses hunspell. But I can be wrong of course. But looking at my Mageia
Installation, I only have aspell and hunspell installed. And I have a
German dictionary for LibreOffice. :) 

> >
> > About the installation problem i'm not sure, but maybe the forum
> > is better suited than this list for troubleshooting?
> 
> Thanks. I thought this mailling list was for this type of questions.
> Sorry for the noise.

Don't be sorry. You can ask such questions here. Or in the forum.
What ever you prefer. 

Sigrid