[ubuntu-in] usage of Libreoffice.

Ramnarayan.K ramnarayan.k at gmail.com
Wed Feb 15 12:42:54 UTC 2012


some typos and grammatical mistakes please overlook and excuse

**
Also thanks to having to help Sriranga ji I too now have Hindi spellcheck
installed :-)

regards
ram

On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Ramnarayan.K <ramnarayan.k at gmail.com>wrote:

> Dear Sir
>
> Am sorry for this long delay, some how the mail missed my view and came
> across is just now.
>
> Will try and help a bit, though the best results do come from the Ubuntu
> List itself (which is marked  here)
>
> **As far as how to enable a Kannada Dictionary / spell please see inline
> below your original mail:**
>
> On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 7:56 PM, Sriranga(78yrsold) <
> withblessings at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear Ram,
>> I am newbie to libreoffice. switched from windows MSword.
>> I am using for Kannada lang. In this context will you kindly guide me how
>> to use
>> abc-Spellchecking for my lang - step by step. I have installed dic-kn in
>> the libreoffice
>> folder.
>> I seek valuable guidance for the following points =
>>
>> 1) How to add the  user.dic file in which I have added many required
>> words manually.
>> 2) It is observed that there is standard.dic in the spell checker - how
>> to use it effectively
>> I mean adding required words and delete unwanted words. - whether
>> standard.dic
>> can retrieved from the libre.office - since I could not locate
>> "standard.dic" is stored/
>> installed.
>>
>>  You have to get the dictionary from
> http://libreoffice-na.us/Spanish/extensions.html (you may already have
> this the file should have an extension called .oxt) - remember where you
> have downloaded the extensions
>
> Then open a libreoffice writer document and go to Tools -> Extension
> Manager.
> Once this is open it will give you at the bottom an "add" button - click
> on this and add the .oxt extension file,. You will have to accept the
> license agreement before it allows you to proceed
>
> Next keep libreoffice writer open and go to Tools - Options - Languages
> and"enhanced language support" here  enable CTL (right at the bottom)
>
> Once CTL (Complex Text Layout ) is enabled then have to enable CTL layout
> go a bit above to default languages and select (in front of the CTL option
> from the downward menu the language of your choice)
>
> To know if that language has a dictionary installed check for a ABC with a
> Check mark , if the language occurs without that it means no dictionary of
> that sort exists.
>
> After this close *all* libreoffice documents and restart openoffice writer
> - mistype a word in your chosen language and if the mistyped word comes up
> with a red wavy underline it means you have been successful in setting up
> your (kannada) language dictionary and spell checker
>
> You also have to ensure that in your main Libreoffice tool bar there are
> two icons, A blue tick / check mark under  ABC characters, one of them has
> a red wavy line under, this has to be enabled, when enabled it shows up
> with a border and the blank areas get filled with blue (or your theme color)
>
> Hope this works
>
>
>
> --
> Ram
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