Spellcheck

[Melissa Draper]

Melissa Draper wrote:
> Chris Jones wrote:
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>>>
>>> Message: 1
>>> Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 18:17:11 +1100
>>> From: david <daljo at gotalk.net.au>
>>> Subject: Spellcheck
>>> To: "ubuntu-au at lists.ubuntu.com" <ubuntu-au at lists.ubuntu.com>
>>> Message-ID: <1198653431.7487.6.camel at david-desktop>
>>> Content-Type: text/plain
>>>
>>> Hi all i am having trouble with spell check again
>>>
>>> I'm using ubuntu 7.1 open office.
>>> when I click on spell check it asks go to begining of doc -I click yes
>>> and it says spell check is complete but it has not checked the doc.
>>> I recall some issues with the installation of the language packaging but
>>> cant remember how to fix it . any help is of assistance. thanks,
>>> regards 
>>> David
>>> PS spelling is being checked in evolution.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Verify that you have aspell and its english component installed.
>> I had to manually install them as they weren't installed by default.
>>
>> In a terminal type:
>>
>> sudo apt-get install aspell aspell-en
> 
> Since there's not actually an 'aspell-en' package, pick from one of the 
> following:

It must have been a good christmas as I seem to still be recovering.

There is actually an aspell-en package. I misread it as myspell probably 
since that's what oo.o and ubuntu uses by default. The default languages 
are en-gb and en-us. Pick from below as per previous message.

> 
> myspell-en-gb - English_british dictionary for myspell
> myspell-en-us - English_american dictionary for myspell
> myspell-en-za - South African English dictionary for myspell
> myspell-en-au - English_australian dictionary for myspell
> 
> Which probably would be myspell-en-au :)
> 
>> Then OpenOffice.org and click on Tools > Options > Language Settings >
>> Languages. And under "Default Languages for Documents" section, select
>> your desired English language whilst making sure it has a 'ABC' icon
>> next to the language.
>> Note: The 'ABC' icon means that there is a dictionary installed for this
>> language.
>>
>> Hope this helps.
>>
>>
> 
> 


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