[gentoo-user] OPenOffice broken

[gentoo-user] OPenOffice broken

[James]

Hello,

I've tried OO-bin and now I compiles OO on an amd64.
both do not have spell check working. Now on the compiled
version, I get this message when it fires up, repeated about
14 times to the console:

(process:7216): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_screen_get_font_options: assertion
`GDK_IS_SCREEN (screen)' failed


It seems to work, but no spell checking?


The flags are similar to as what I use elsewhere on x\86.

any ideas?


James

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Re: [gentoo-user] OPenOffice broken

[Rob Rutherford]

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The spell check is based on the language setting for the text in the
document. Format->Character->Font Make sure the language is set correctly
you probably want English (USA) .

On 5/16/07, James <wireless@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I've tried OO-bin and now I compiles OO on an amd64.
> both do not have spell check working. Now on the compiled
> version, I get this message when it fires up, repeated about
> 14 times to the console:
>
> (process:7216): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_screen_get_font_options: assertion
> `GDK_IS_SCREEN (screen)' failed
>
>
> It seems to work, but no spell checking?
>
>
> The flags are similar to as what I use elsewhere on x\86.
>
> any ideas?
>
>
> James
>
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Re: [gentoo-user] OPenOffice broken

[Rob Rutherford]

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On 5/16/07, Rob Rutherford <rlrutherford@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> On 5/16/07, James <wireless@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I've tried OO-bin and now I compiles OO on an amd64.
> > both do not have spell check working. Now on the compiled
> > version, I get this message when it fires up, repeated about
> > 14 times to the console:
> >
> > (process:7216): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_screen_get_font_options: assertion
> > `GDK_IS_SCREEN (screen)' failed
> >
> >
> > It seems to work, but no spell checking?
> >
> >
> > The flags are similar to as what I use elsewhere on x\86.
> >
> > any ideas?
> >
> >
> > James
>
>
The spell check is based on the language setting for the text in the
document. Format->Character->Font Make sure the language is set correctly
you probably want English (USA) .

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[gentoo-user] Re: OPenOffice broken

[James]

Rob Rutherford <rlrutherford <at> gmail.com> writes:


> The spell check is based on the language setting for the text in the
> document. Format->Character->Font Make sure the language is set
> correctly you probably want English (USA) .


Hello Rob,

That's not it, is was already set to 
"English (USA)"

It's something peculiar to amd64 as I do not have this problem
on any x86 based gentoo system....



James




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Re: [gentoo-user] OPenOffice broken

[Randy Barlow]

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James wrote:
> It seems to work, but no spell checking?

I think you want to emerge app-dicts/aspell-en for English spell
checking in OpenOffice.  At least, I seem to remember that being the case...

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Re: [gentoo-user] OPenOffice broken

[Dale]

Randy Barlow wrote:
> James wrote:
> > It seems to work, but no spell checking?
>
> I think you want to emerge app-dicts/aspell-en for English spell
> checking in OpenOffice.  At least, I seem to remember that being the
> case...
>
> R

This may have changed, everything else does, but I THINK I read
somewhere that OOo had it's own built in spell checker.  If it helps any
though, this is what I have installed:

> root@smoker / # equery list spell
> [ Searching for package 'spell' in all categories among: ]
>  * installed packages
> [I--] [ ~] app-dicts/aspell-en-6.0.0 (0)
> [I--] [  ] app-dicts/myspell-en-20060316 (0)
> [I--] [ ~] app-text/aspell-0.60.5 (0)
> [I--] [  ] app-text/hunspell-1.1.4-r1 (0)
> [I--] [  ] app-text/ispell-3.2.06-r6 (0)
> root@smoker / #

Hopefully that will help.

Dale

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Re: [gentoo-user] OPenOffice broken

[William Kenworthy]

correct, though I think its hunspell.  For some reason gentoos install
disables OO's native spell checker and wants to use an external one -
Its performance (finding errors) sucks compared to the original but I
havent had time find how to restore the original behaviour.  Yesterday I
found that none of the thesaurus are working as well - now I need to
find out how (or if) I can enable that ...

I thought policy was to use upstreams as much as possible and not go
reconfigure things in a non-standard way.  If I'm wrong, its because I
couldn't find any documentation on what to do and it was an email on
this list that helped me sort the spellcheck out originally.

Another annoyance is that you cant select personal dictionaries and have
them stay selected.  Every time I start OO I have to go and reconfigure
the user dictionaries available - wonder if this a side effect of the
changes?

BillK




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Re: [gentoo-user] OPenOffice broken

[Bo Ørsted Andresen]

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On Thursday 17 May 2007 04:30:37 James wrote:
> It seems to work, but no spell checking?

From the openoffice ebuilds:
| pkg_postinst() {
|   [...]
|   elog " Spell checking is now provided through our own myspell-ebuilds, "
|   elog " if you want to use it, please install the correct myspell package "
|   elog " according to your language needs. "
|}

You probably want app-dicts/myspell-en.

You should configure portage so you read those elog messages..

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=3&chap=1#doc_chap4

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[gentoo-user] Re: OPenOffice broken

[James]

Bo Ørsted Andresen <bo.andresen <at> zlin.dk> writes:


> You probably want app-dicts/myspell-en.

Yep that was it!


> You should configure portage so you read those elog messages..
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=3&chap=1#doc_chap4


OK, I'll look at this doc and make some changes, because 
on my amd64 system, I completely missed this. On the x86 systems,
they were installed some time ago, and spell checking always worked
and still works..... Regardless of using the binary or
compiling from scratch.


app-dicts/myspell-en was installed on all of the x86 systems.


Thanks,


James




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