[plug] Open Office

[Craig Ringer]

> I love my OO but got sick of the American spell checker, so went in to
> editing options and changed the language for documents to English
> (Australian).  Then I went back to OO Write and deliberately misspelled a
> few words, only small errors, and all of the were given the thumbs up OK by
> Tools/Spell check.

You need to fetch the appropriate dictionaries. Currently there's only 
en_GB to my (limited) knowledge, and that must be munged a bit to get it 
to work with the en_AU locale.

First, fetch the OO.o en_GB dictionary from www.openoffice.org:

http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/lingucomponent/download_dictionary.html

Grab the en_GB dictionary from the above page, or:

http://dict.progbits.com/en_GB.zip

Unzip it into:

OpenOffice.org1.0/user/wordbook

then edit dictionary.lst and append these _two_ lines (not just the 
first one as per the readme).

DICT en GB en_GB
DICT en AU en_GB

This will alias the en_GB dictionary you've just installed to be used 
for en_AU as well. Ugly but I don't know of an en_AU OO.o dictionary 
yet. This way you can set everything to en_AU and OO.o doesn't complain 
like it will otherwise. No need to suffer the en_GB locale for your 
entire system environment or hack the soffice script to specifically set 
en_GB first - just work as normal :-)

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Craig Ringer
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