How to Enable Thesaurus

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#1

Running -
LibreOffice 3.3.4
OOO330m19 (Build:401)
tag libreoffice-3.3.3.1, Ubuntu package 1:3.3.4-0ubuntu1
Language is English (UK)

How can I enable the Thesaurus?

If I go to Tools > Language, Thesaurus is greyed out

If I go to Tools > Options > Language Settings > Writing Aids
I see OpenOffice.org New Thesaurus and it is ticked.

Am I missing something here?

Thanks
Mick

#2

Works running
Windows 7
LibreOffice 3.4.5
OOO340m1 (Build:502)

#3

Works running
Windows 7
LibreOffice 3.4.5
OOO340m1 (Build:502)

Running -
LibreOffice 3.3.4
OOO330m19 (Build:401)
tag libreoffice-3.3.3.1, Ubuntu package 1:3.3.4-0ubuntu1
Language is English (UK)

Which Ubuntu version do you have? If you have synaptic installed, check
to see which dictionaries/thesauri you have installed for LO. You can
search using Libreoffice, hunspell, and myspell.

#4

Try this one;
Download this British English [You did want British English correct?] dictionary that has a Thesaurus built into it. Then install it [with the Extension Manager]. Then see if you have a Thesaurus. IF you do, then you did not have a working one installed that LO can use.

http://libreoffice-na.us/English-3.4-installs/add-on-dictionaries-large-list/kpp-british-english-dictionary-390K-word-list.oxt

The American version is what I use with Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.

Actually this file comes from my work trying to make a set of good English dictionaries for LO.

If you decide it works for you, go to the Extension Center and decide which British English [American, or Canadian version as well] you would like to use.

http://extensions.libreoffice.org/extension-center/american-british-canadian-spelling-hyphen-thesaurus-dictionaries

#5

Don't know about LO Thesaurus, but a nice free-standing one, which also doubles as a dictionary, is Artha. Check your repos for that--it's in PCLOS.

--doug

#6

Yes, I have Artha as a stand-alone one. You can get it off the distros as well, and I believe there is a Windows version as well.

But if you need one to be used in LibreOffice, my set of English dictionaries have one that has over 140,000 word/phrase listings to get a result from. All you have to do is download and install one of my American English, British English, or Canadian English, .oxt files and install it through the Extension Manager.

You can get them at the Extension Center http://extensions.libreoffice.org/ and look for the Dictionaries for any version. Or you can go to my portal and download them from there. http://libreoffice-na.us/English-3.4-installs/dictionary.html#english They start with "kpp" in the dictionary file list. There are a total of 11 dictionaries to choose from. All you have to do is choose the version of English [American, British, or Canadian], and choose the spelling word list count size [98K, 217K, 390K, and 638K words in the list]. You can install all of them, but only keep one of each English version enabled at a time. Hopefully, soon I will be uploading an update with about 1K of computer technical words and terms that were missing from these word lists. I have been busy so I will need a bit of time to make the updates available online in the Extension Center and my portal.

#7

Hi :slight_smile:
Would it be reasonably easy to add a link to the Artha one on Tim's dictionary Extensions page?  If that page could be a one-stop-shop it might be good for keeping track of all those things and a good one to sign-post people to. 
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#8

Sorry, Artha is not something I have dealt with, except testing it out on my Ubuntu system.

If you think there needs to be a page listing all of the possible dictionary and thesaurus options for Ubuntu and Windows, well if I have the time I might think about doing one.

But for now, I have a good one for LO within my .oxt dictionary/thesaurus/hyphenation files. Outside of LO, I thing Artha might be a useful one.

#9

Hi :slight_smile:
Ahh, i wasn't think of being that organised.  I was just thinking of adding a link to the page that we already have.  That would make your Extensions page a central point which would be great imo as there is a lot of great stuff there and other packages are possibly not quite so good even before doing more work on it.
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#10

I do not think that the LO Extension Center would be a good place for that. We need to keep non-LO packages off the LO Extension and Template sites.

As for the Thesaurus in LibreOffice, well you need to install a dictionary/thesaurus .oxt file as the easiest way to get one working with LO. I know there are Thesaurus files in the Ubuntu repository, but I do not know how to get LO to access them properly. There seems to be several file formats for Ubuntu's internal/repository spelling and thesaurus data files. LO must be able access them properly to use them. Since Windows does not include such files, as far as I can tell, would the developers create the coding for each type of Linux dictionary/thesaurus repository based file formats when Mac and Windows might not have them? Would these file be in all the Ubuntu, Debian, Red Hat, openSUSE, etc, based distros, or only in some of them? I would not want to be the one responsible for testing LO to see if it works with each and every distro's repository-based spelling dictionary and thesaurus files. It is much easier to just work with the ones enabled through the installing of the .oxt file based ones.

http://libreoffice-na.us/English-3.4-installs/dictionary.html is the list of all the .oxt dictionary and thesaurus files I know of, except any new ones listed in the LO Extension Center that I have not listed [yet]. There are over 200 dictionaries [last counted] listed, with over 20 localized Spanish ones. So, to be honest, I would rather deal with using a .oxt file-based thesaurus and dictionary than try to get what Ubuntu has to work with LO.

As for the question about stand-alone Thesaurus for Ubuntu, for now Artha would be the easiest route to go. Install it, then run it. You will not see it's window coming up normally. You have to do a "ctrl-alt-w" to have the window pop up for use. The package stays in memory, or partly, until you reboot [or at least as far as I know it does]. I have used it a few times though. Actually it is more than just a Thesaurus. There is a "Relatives" tab system that lists their titles called: Synonyms, Antonyms, Derivatives, Related to, Attributes, Similar, Domain, Causes, Entails, Kind of, Kinds, Part of, and Parts. What all these options will show, I have no real clue, but they are listed.