Adding Additional Dictionaries

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Third-party dictionaries for the Mac OS X spelling system

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NeoOffice will also use any third-party dictionaries that plug into the native Mac OS X spelling system, e.g. dictionaries for Icelandic, Finnish, Hungarian, and Hebrew, CheckSpell for Czech, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Slovak, and Ukrainian (10.4.11 and above; incompatible with, and will remove, cocoAspell), and cocoAspell*, a plug-in which supports dictionaries for 74 languages. In order to use these dictionaries, the language must appear (and be checked) in the Languages: section of the Finder's Get Info window for NeoOffice. If the language code corresponding to the dictionary you want to use does not appear in the Get Info window, follow these steps to add the language to NeoOffice:

  • Quit NeoOffice, if it is running
  • Create an empty .lproj folder using the ISO code for your language in the /Applications/NeoOffice.app/Contents/Resources folder
    • Select NeoOffice in the Finder and choose Show Package Contents from the Finder's context menu.
    • Open the Contents folder and then the Resources folder
    • Create the new folder as described above
      E.g. for Icelandic, you should create a folder named is.lproj
  • Select NeoOffice in the Finder and open the Get Info window again; verify that the language now appears in the Languages: section and the box for it is checked.
  • Restart NeoOffice

* Note that some users have reported cocoAspell has caused NeoOffice to be unable to use the Mac OS X spell-checker; see below for more information.

Languages without a Mac OS X dictionary

If Mac OS X does not have a spelling dictionary for your language, NeoOffice will use an OpenOffice.org dictionary, if installed.

For NeoOffice 3.0: Dictionaries are now available via the OpenOffice.org extensions repository and must be downloaded and then installed via the Extension Manager.

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Because the OpenOffice.org writing tools authors and their communities are always updating these tools, you should periodically check your dictionary extensions for updates.

Installing Third-Party Dictionaries for OpenOffice.org

Due to licensing problems and other issues, there may be dictionaries for some languages that are not available via the dictionary wizard. If you find a dictionary for your language in either Hunspell (preferred) or MySpell format, it is possible to use this dictionary with NeoOffice.

Known Sources of Third-Party Dictionaries

check to see if these offer extensions on their own sites (or if their dictionaries are available from the Extensions Repository

  • Foolab: Arabic (عربي) [early version, only 71,000 words]
  • Ivrix Project: Arabic (عربي) [very large list, based on Buckwalter but converted by a non-Arabic speaker; reported to be slow and consume 200 MB of RAM]
  • Hunspell SourceForge Project: Amharic (አማርኛ), Azerbaijani (AzÉ™rbaycanca), Bengali (বাংলা), Kashubian (Kaszëbsczi), Persian (فارسی), Hindi (हिंदी), Mongolian (Монгол), Marathi (मराठी), Oriya (ଓଡ଼ିଆ), Punjabi (ਪੰਜਾਬੀ), Tamil (தமிழ்), Uzbek (Ўзбекча), Vietnamese (Việt ngữ). Note that only the downloads labeled "pack" appear to work with the steps listed above.
  • OOoWiki: Assorted (many of the tools listed there are already available using the Dictionary wizard, but if your language is not in the Dictionary wizard, check the OOoWiki.)
  • Linguistico: Italian (better quality than those available from the Dictionary Wizard)
  • Antidote Very complete French set of writings tools. Antidote installs easily in NeoOffice 2 (Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw). Antidote is shareware (about $69).

Disabling Writing Tools for Unnecessary Languages

  1. Under the NeoOffice menu choose Preferences.
  2. In the dialog that appears, double-click on Language Settings
  3. Click on Writing Aids
  4. In the panel that appears, highlight (but don't uncheck) NeoOffice Mac OS X Spellcheck with Hunspell and click the Edit button to the right of the this item.
  5. In the dialog that appears, select a language from the pop-up list and uncheck NeoOffice Mac OS X Spellcheck with Hunspell.
  6. Repeat this step for all languages that you want to disable and click Close when you are finished.
  7. To save your changes, click OK and the dialog will close.
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