{"id":69,"date":"2009-03-30T07:17:26","date_gmt":"2009-03-30T07:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.weeklywhinge.com\/?p=69"},"modified":"2009-06-22T14:01:14","modified_gmt":"2009-06-22T14:01:14","slug":"british-english-thesaurus-for-openoffice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.weeklywhinge.com\/?p=69","title":{"rendered":"OpenOffice 3 British English Thesaurus"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been persuading friends and family that using OpenOffice<\/a> is going to save the planet and all the fluffly ikkle animals and everything.<\/p>\n

I’ve been using the Novell-sponsored go-oo version (from go-oo.org<\/a>) because it seems to have better compatibility with the MS stuff as well as being quicker and generally more fluffy-ikkle-animal-friendly; however it looks like something they’ve done has caused the British English thesaurus to break. I’m assuming it’s Go-oo’s fault because the standard OO install on Harry’s machine (on the next desk) is fine.<\/p>\n

Anyway, after some hours of searching the web for a solution (all of which seemed to be based around editing a file which no longer exists in oo3) for now I’ve packaged up my own extension based on the stock en-gb dictionary and PaulH’s thesaurus from brit-thesaurus.sourceforge.net<\/a><\/p>\n

Apparently this could also be useful if you don’t like the fact that the British English thesaurus in ooo actually points at the en_US version anyway…<\/p>\n

So here it is<\/a>. Just install it and restart OO, that should do it. Let me know if it’s broken.<\/p>\n

Edit: to install (assuming that just opening the file doesn’t work) go to Tools->Extension Manager in OpenOffice, click “Add” and navigate to wherever you saved the file!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been persuading friends and family that using OpenOffice is going to save the planet and all the fluffly ikkle animals and everything. I’ve been using the Novell-sponsored go-oo version (from go-oo.org) because it seems to have better compatibility with the MS stuff as well as being quicker and generally more fluffy-ikkle-animal-friendly; however it looks […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[32,27,31,28,26,34,33,25,35,29,30],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-british-english","tag-en-gb","tag-en-uk","tag-en_gb","tag-go-oo","tag-oo-v3","tag-ooo3","tag-openoffice","tag-openoffice-v3","tag-thesaurus","tag-uk-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weeklywhinge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weeklywhinge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weeklywhinge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weeklywhinge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weeklywhinge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.weeklywhinge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73,"href":"https:\/\/www.weeklywhinge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions\/73"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weeklywhinge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weeklywhinge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weeklywhinge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}