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Writer Thesaurus
Just up graded to 11.04 and seem the thesauruses is grayed out. Any one
know who to activated/ turn on this feature?
Do you have mythes-* (e.g. mythes-en-us) package installed? You can install it
using your package manager (I believe that in Ubuntu, which you are probably
using, it is called software-center).
Click box at bottom of window that says
"Enable experimental (unstable) features
Jerry
Thesaurus is grayed out where? In LO? or the external one?
Artha is a good external Thesaurus and Dictionary that I am running on Ubuntu 10.04.
Install this dictionary/hyphen/thesaurus .oxt file.
Also try this Language Tool. Actually it is not the newest one.
http://libreoffice-na.us/English-3.4-installs/add-ons-extensions/LanguageTool-1.2.oxt
This tool helps with dictionary and thesaurus functions, but you need to have Java installed to use it.
If you have installed both .oxt files and you still have the Thesaurus option grayed out, then there is something wrong with the LO install, or somehow 11.xx has some problems with their internal dictionary system; or so I have been told that LO might use the MySpell/Hunspell, or other internal dictionary system. I have hunspell for en-US, but myspell for -en-gb, en-au, -en-za, and a few others. I also have the "libreoffice3-dict-en", libreoffice3.4-dict-en" packages installed. It seems I have a lot of packages names with both 3.3 and 3.4 version. I wonder if you installed the "openoffice.org-thesaurus-en-us" package [if it is shown in the Synaptic Package Manager for 11.xx] would help at all?
To be honest, there have been some weird issues with the dictionary/thesaurus running LO 3.4.x on Ubuntu 11.xx and the default Unity desktop manager.
I do not have that option checked and I have the Thesaurus running.
You know I just figured it out. synaptic to the rescue. Looked for a
package under Word Processing and notices that it wasn't installed. Seem to
be working now. But thanks for the help
Patrick
Hi
Congrats, nicely done! lol
Synaptic and the "fix broken packages" feature have helped me quite a few times.
Regards from
Tom
I opened that package manager and type in "word processing" and I did not get a thing. I did the same in the Ubuntu Software Center [Applications menu] and did not get any thesaurus or dictionary packages either.
me neither @webmaster
Hi
On the left hand side of Synaptic is a panel that allows you to restrict the
list of packages to specific categories. By default it is set on "All" but
then gives options such as "Amateur Radio", "Base", "Communications", scroll
down the long list to see a few categories for "Word Processor".
Antiword looked interesting but i couldn't find anything like "mythes*" even
in the "All" category. I was wondering if it's because i installed LO
through the ppa or perhaps because i haven't installed any extra language
packs on this machine. I might try on a different machines tomorrow (maybe)
Anyway the important thing is that the problem was fixed.
Regards from
Tom
now if I type "thes", I get a lot of info
"mythes-en-us" is listed as the "English Thesaurus for LibreOffice/OpenOffice.org"
Actually "Artha" seems to be a good "external" offline dictionary/thesaurus. I just downloaded it a few days ago, after seeing it referenced in an article on the linuxlibrary.org web site.
There is also GTK Ailsaurus and KThesaurus as options as well. But, I think they both use online sources, like the "default" dictionary package for Ubuntu/GNOME, plus a whole lot more dictionary packages.
I run GNOME as my default desktop manager, but I installed the "complete" KDE package [4.x?] so I could use some of the system utility packages that it places in the "System > Preferences > System Settings" package. They are useful. I like GNOME a little better than KDE, but there are parts of KDE I like better that GNOMES version, so I use a mixed install, sort of.