Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:47:02 -0600 From: Matt <datahead4@gmail.com> To: "Gary Kline" <kline@thought.org> Cc: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: do we have any grammar checkers for FBSD? Message-ID: <cd6b4a5b0811211347k6f1b9c8yd68616badfd3d362@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <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> <20081121205931.GA8633@thought.org>
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On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 2:59 PM, Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> wrote: > 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 > Well, there is http://www.languagetool.org/ available for OOo, but I don't know how to get it installed due to the "bad transfer url" error that's been reported [1] when installing extensions. Any ideas related to that? [1] http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-openoffice/2008-October/003941.html >> >> -- >> 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > 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" >
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