English documentation for soikko

soik.txt (text/plain), 2.23 KB, created by Petrus Pietilä on 2003-06-19 03:30:28 UTC

Hyphenation and spellcheck installation to OpenOffice Linux-version

In the examples we have used OpenOffice's english version 1.0.1 but soikko can be installed
to OpenOffice version other than english. Also soikko can be installed to older 1.0.0 version.

Prerequirements

You need the following tar packet 
 * soikko-oo-linux-0.2.tar.gz (about 3 MB)

NOTE! If OpenOffice is compiled with gcc version 3.2(for example Mandrake 9.0) you can't use the tar
package mentioned earlier but you need a version of soikko that's compiled with gcc 3.2 too. 
Coming later.

Other requirements

* OpenOffice must be installed
* Installer of soikko needs write access to the directory where OpenOffice is installed.

Installing the programs

1. Extract and install Soikko

   $ tar zxf soikko-oo-linux-0.2.tar.gz
   $ cd soikko-oo-linux-0.2

In the following command replace /path/to/OpenOffice with the path where OpenOffice is actually 
installed.

   $ make install OODIR=/path/to/OpenOffice

make command executes the following actions

* Copy a program named regcomp to OpenOffice's program subfolder if the subfolder doesn't already 
 contain the program.
* Installs and registers spellcheck- and hyphenationmodules
* Copy hyphenation and spellcheck programs and dictionaries to OpenOffice's directories.

2. Replace OpenOffice i18n-modul (optional)

OpenOffice 1.0.1 still has many minor problems with spellcehck. OpenOffice splits words wrong in the case
of some punctuation marks especially hyphen and colon.  

<Examples where openoffice fails>

You can fix the problem by replacing a file named libi18n641li.so with the one from soikko package. First you should
take a backup copy from the original file. 

    $ mv /path/to/OpenOffice/program/libi18n641li.so /path/to/OpenOffice/program/libi18n641li.so.orig
    $ cp libi18n641li.so /path/to/OpenOffice/program/

3. Do the required settings in OpenOffice

Start OpenOffice

Hyphenation and spellcheck can be activated like this:

* Choose Tools - Options - Language Settings - Writing Aids
* Click Edit
* Choose language suomi (Language= Finnish)
* Select "Soikko Finnish spellchecker" and "Soikko Finnish hyphenator"
* Click close
* Click OK

<Some general settings for OpenOffice's hyphenation and spellcheck not releated to Soikko>