Re: OpenOffice.org -- Lacking dictionary & help files by default?
Ahhh, yes. I didn't even think about the fact that there are multiple languages.
On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 12:26:37 +1000, peter <peter@petebox.com> wrote:
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> Justin Goods wrote:
> > I've been using OOo for a bit now. The spell checker never worked..
> > Initially, I assumed it was just a bug of some sort, and would be
> > fixed in the next release. Well, after a recent [apt-get] upgrade I
> > noticed that the spell checker still isn't working.. Not only that,
> > but the help files are missing...
> >
> > After fumbling around a bit, and installing a few packages, the spell
> > checker was working, and the help files were present...
> >
> > I was wondering if the lack of help, and dictionary files is a known
> > "issue" (it probably is)? it seems a bit odd for these things not to
> > be installed by default, because I see no reason for them not to be,
> > unless the maintainers are trying to keep size down. However, the
> > packages I installed only were only ~12MB.
> >
> >
> But as you will have no doubt noticed there are dozens of different
> languages for both spelling and help...very annoying to have to download
> them all when you only need one of each. Plus there's the whole
> architecture independent business as well.
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> peter
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