Re: [libreoffice-users] ot:Artha

Hi :)
When you see a word with a red-wriggly line under it then right-click on it and near the bottom of 
the menu is "Add to dictionary".  It works in Windows and Gnu&LInux but Mac probably has an 
equivalent.  

If you run the spell-check on the entire document then when your name gets picked-on as being a 
mis-spelling the "Add to dictionary" button is in the lower half of the pop-up dialogue-box.  I 
think "Ok" and "Cancel" are at the top but look lower down.  

Either way is good.  

Word-perfect is good apparently.  It's been a couple of decades since i last used it but i used to 
really like it.  Just out of curiosity do you save documents in
1. Wp formats and if so can MS Office 2010 read them happily?
2. Odf formats, any problems?
3. MS formats that everyone can read?  Do they work?  Do you use the older Doc rather than DocX?

Regards from
Tom :)


--- On Fri, 24/2/12, Doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> wrote:

From: Doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net>
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] ot:Artha
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Date: Friday, 24 February, 2012, 6:52

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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