I thought I had everything setup correctly for getting spell checking going on open office 3, but no matter what I tried I could never get a language installed. I finally posted on the forums and got it solved there, but the solutions is messy. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-741596.html That link includes a detailed description of what I did to try to get spell checking working. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge openoffice-bin 2. emrege myspell-en 3. eselect a dictionary (oodict module) Actual Results: no spell check dictionaries installed, at all. Expected Results: At least english dictionaries. Was able to work around by manually installing dictionaries included with openoffice from with the extension manager. This should probably happen at install time for every user. I'm calling this a major bug because not being able to spell check in a program like open office really hampers peoples productivity. (It did for me) One final note, It's hard to know with oodict to use eselect oodict set myspell-en and not eselect oodict set 1 since the dictionaries have numbers, and every other eselect module I tried uses numbers, as well as the text version. Using the number instead of text in oodict crashes.
Reassigning to openoffice herd.
I am being troubled by this bugs too. This work around is fine, but I suppose a portage/eselect solution is called for. Also, I have LINGUAS=en, but my eselect list do not show ooodict: $ eselect list-modules Built-in modules: help Display a help message list-modules Find and display available modules usage Display a usage message version Display version information Extra modules: bashcomp Manage contributed bash-completion scripts binutils Manage installed versions of sys-devel/binutils ctags Manage /usr/bin/ctags implementations env Manage environment variables set in /etc/env.d/ fontconfig Manage fontconfig /etc/fonts/conf.d/ symlinks java-nsplugin Manage the Java plugin for Netscape-like Browsers java-vm Manage the Java system and user VM kernel Manage the /usr/src/linux symlink mailer Manage the mailwrapper profiles in /etc/mail news Read GLEP 42 news items opengl Manage the OpenGL implementation used by your system postgresql Manage postgresql slots profile Manage the /etc/make.profile symlink rc Manage /etc/init.d scripts in runlevels ruby Manage ruby symlinks timidity Select default system patchset for TiMidity++ vi Manage /usr/bin/vi implementations wxwidgets Manage the system default wxWidgets profile. xvmc Manage the XvMC implementation used by your system Is this related?
Well maybe you should read the postinstall information which contains instructions for this (and actually tells you to install dictionaries from extensions with openoffice-bin), so this is hardly something you can call a "workaround"
didn't see post install instructions.
