Re: [libreoffice-users] ot:Artha

On 02/23/2012 07:57 PM, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote:
> On 02/23/2012 04:29 PM, Doug wrote:
> > I find Artha is very useful as a dictionary and thesaurus.  However, 
> > I believe it has a very noticeable, annoying, but not
> > hurtful, bug. I tried very hard to sign up for their bug reporting 
> > service, but gave up.  Perhaps someone who is already
> > signed up will log in and tell them that the expression "Very rare" 
> > is GROSSLY overused!  Thanx.  --doug
>
> Artha for Windows or Linux?  I have it on Linux desktop, but used it 
> once or twice.  I have the Windows version but never used it on my 
> Vista or XP laptops.
>
> My English dictionaries have a thesaurus with about 140,000 word and 
> phrases that can be looked up.  They do not have a definition listed 
> for the words in the spell-checking dictionary part, but the largest 
> ones are over 638,000 words in the word list.
>
> You can find them at my portal
> http://libreoffice-na.us/English-3.4-installs/dictionary.html#english
>
> OR the LO extension site.
> http://extensions.libreoffice.org/extension-center/american-british-canadian-spelling-hyphen-thesaurus-dictionaries 
I have Artha on both Windows and Linux, but I use Linux mostly.  I do 
use the definitions, and I probably use definitions as
often as spelling verification, or more so.  But practically every word 
you look up comes up "very rare"--which, of course,
most of them are not.

When I'm using LO, of course the spell checker is turned on--I wouldn't 
know how to turn it off, and I only wish I knew
how to add words to it--like my name.  To be honest, when I use Windows, 
I prefer WordPerfect, which I believe is
superior in usability and performance to either of the 'Offices and to 
MS Word, which you people slavishly imitate.

--doug

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