Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:59:42 -0800 From: Bill Campbell <freebsd@celestial.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: do we have any grammar checkers for FBSD? Message-ID: <20081121195942.GC25228@ayn.mi.celestial.com> In-Reply-To: <20081121183222.GC98578@thought.org> References: <20081121012115.GA68795@thought.org> <200811211203.29000.goksin.akdeniz@gmail.com> <20081121172532.GA31728@ayn.mi.celestial.com> <20081121183222.GC98578@thought.org>
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On Fri, Nov 21, 2008, Gary Kline wrote: >On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 09:25:32AM -0800, Bill Campbell wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 21, 2008, 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. >> >> Eons ago I used ``style'' and ``diction'' which were from the >> Bell Labs *roff text processing that were available on Xenix. I >> found them quite useful, but haven't seen them in years. > > hmmm! yeah, i probably have these that i swiped from SVR2 [shhh-h] > in 1986-7. i never used the roff stuff except in in idiot-mode, but i do > remember that joe <<somebody>> came up with the tool for running-off > man pages. I'm enough of a curmudgeon that I still do the majority of my writing with vim using -mm macros. I have even written tools that convert these to docbook XML, at least to get a first cut without having to write all the XML markup. Bill -- INTERNET: bill@celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820 Fax: (206) 232-9186 Property must be secured, or liberty cannot exist. -- John Adams
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