Also, the "dictionary.lst" file does not exist, as documented in the install notes. The install notes are confusing, and/or don't explain my needs well. i need to knowif i can install spelling *only* for a user-by-users basis, if I can have spelling centralized (especially for custom dic files) and if I can have different groups of users use different custom dic files.

Re. the install notes, I would be happy to submit a "patch2 for them, but I don't know how the spelling system works.

Hi,

That's funny, spelling works fine for me in Oo641C. There is a 
problem during installation, only under "setup -net" installs, that 
puts the dictionary.lst and en_US.aff and en_US.dic file in the 
incorrect place (See Bugzilla Issue 2670).  A patch has already been 
committed to fix this and so the fix should already be in CVS.

If you have done a (setup -net) to install one OOo build for many 
users, the following will workaround the problem:

cd MAININSTALLLOCATION/user/wordbook/
cp dictionary.lst $HOME/OpenOffice.org641/user/wordbook/
cp en_US.* $HOME/OpenOffice.org641/user/wordbook/

Then go to $HOME/OpenOffice.org641/user/wordbook/ and use any text 
editor to edit the dictionary.lst document to add additional 
dictionaries.

See 

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

for instructions on how to download and install other dictionaries.

The dictionary.lst file is "user" specific so different users can 
have different dictionaries open.  If you would like to share 
dictionaries across multiple users (instead of installing multiple 
copies of the dictionaries) simply use symlinks in place of the 
installing the actual dictionary files.

If you need more information about how the dictionary.lst system 
works please see the dev@sw.openoffice.org and 
discuss@openoffice.org mailing list archives where a long discussion 
of the pros and cons of this system is well documented over the last 
couple of months.

Hope this helps,

Kevin

Hi Kevin,

Thanks for your (fast) response. I did use the -net setup, and your workaround sorted it out. Another issue was that I used the following line in dictionary.lst:
DICT en UK en_UK
given that the file is called en_UK
but in OOo it showed up as "Unkown"
I changed to en GB en_UK and all seems to be well.

I do suggest changing the name of the file to en_GB for consistency.

cheers,

Martijn

Hi Martijn,

The name change from en_UK to en_GB has already been 
made on the lingucompnent site.

Thanks,

Kevin

*** Issue 3016 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***

The Issue you raised has been marked as 'Resolved' and not updated within the
last 1 year+. I am therefore setting this issue to 'Verified' as the first step
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Many thanks,
Andrew
 
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