[plug] ooo 1.0.2 and myspell-en_AU package [solution/advice]

[Ben New]

One for the archives, just in case anyone has the same problem I just had.

Task: Install Australian English myspell dictionary for use in OOo 1.0.2 
on Mandrake 9.1.  (The OOo version is the one that comes with Mdk9.1)
Step 1: download package from
http://rpms.mandrakeclub.com/rpms/mandrake-devel/cooker/ia64/Mandrake/RPMS/myspell-en_AU-1.0.2-0.20030329.1mdk.noarch.html
Step 2: install
# rpm -i myspell-en_AU
Step 3: close OOo (if it is open), and then open (e.g.) OOo Writer (may 
have to wait 1-2 secs for thread to die, otherwise it won't properly 
re-init).
Step 4: tools > options > language settings > writing aids; select 
"OpenOffice.org MySpell SpellChecker" then Edit (or double click).  you 
can just close the dialog box because

Step 4 seems to be required for OOo to pick up the new dictionary.  If 
you don't do it, you get an error message, something about the 
Australian English language not being supported by MySpell, regardless 
of the fact that installing the rpm puts the files right next to the 
other dictionaries (in /usr/share/dict/ooo/) and even adds an entry to 
dictionary.lst. 

It might be Mandrake's package system that is causing this, but then 
again it is probably OOo.  Hopefully it will be fixed in future versions 
(may already have been) thereby rendering this message useless ;-)

One other thing, it appears that if you want to use the hyphenation 
rules with AU English then you need to manually add an entry like this 
into the dictionary.lst file:
HYPH en AU hyph_en

Ben


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