Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Linux synonem and language tool

On 06/22/2011 09:21 AM, lee wrote:
> Asterix<noreply@documentfoundation.org>  writes:
>
> > In all the different Linux distro's I installed none seems to support the
> > synonym function. I initially though it is not enabled in the Linux version.
> > So is it the tesaurus that is sometimes not installed on Linux? In windows
> > all the versions on Libreoffice including the release canditates supported
> > the synonym function on my WinXP and Win 7
> There are packages in Debian testing you can install to add support for
> quite a number of languages in LO. Synonyms would be language dependant,
> so there isn´t much point in having to install all the packages for all
> languages when there are languages you never use.
>
> There´s the package "mythes-fr" that seems to provide the thesaurus for
> French, for example. Since I don´t speak French, I don´t need it, and
> not installing that package alone saves me about 2MB. There are
> currently 15 thesauri, so I´m saving maybe 30MB. Same is for the
> hyphenation packages ...
>
> It´s not a great solution, though. Who would guess that they should
> install a package called "mythes-fr" or "hyphen-fr" to get thesaurus and
> hyphenation support for French in LO? At least the package names should
> indicate that the packages are related to LO.
Is that the way to get OOo New Thesaurus? or is it something else?

This is a MySpell system and I have a Hunspell spellchecker installed.  
I download the .deb I found for the mythes-en files, and installed it.  
I did not see any difference.  I did not reboot my Ubuntu 10.04 system 
though.



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