https://www.theeggeadventure.com/wikimedia/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=SpelingSpeling - Revision history2026-05-16T02:00:21ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.46.0-betahttps://www.theeggeadventure.com/wikimedia/index.php?title=Speling&diff=1956&oldid=prevEgge: New page: I downloaded the new Open Office 3 Beta for OS X. It's quite nice, and I may be switching from NeoOffice. Running the two side by side didn't require any effort to do. The only glitch I...2008-06-22T14:15:07Z<p>New page: I downloaded the new Open Office 3 Beta for OS X. It's quite nice, and I may be switching from NeoOffice. Running the two side by side didn't require any effort to do. The only glitch I...</p>
<p><b>New page</b></p><div>I downloaded the new Open Office 3 Beta for OS X. It's quite nice, and I may be switching from NeoOffice. Running the two side by side didn't require any effort to do. The only glitch I ran into, was 3.0 didn't find my custom dictionary from OOo 2.x. After some poking around I was able to copy the file manually.<br />
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Here's the file from the previous version of OOo:<br />
./Library/Application Support/OpenOffice.org 2.0/user/wordbook/standard.dic<br />
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and here's the file locations from NeoOffice:<br />
./Library/Preferences/NeoOffice-2.1/user/wordbook/standard.dic<br />
'''./Library/Preferences/NeoOffice-2.2/user/wordbook/standard.dic'''<br />
./Library/Preferences/NeoOffice-2.x/user/wordbook/standard.dic<br />
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The most up to date one seems to be the NeoOffice-2.2. OOo seems to use the Mac's dictionary as a white list, but exceptions only get added it it's own dictionary. It's too bad the exceptions don't get added into the Mac's custom dictionary. The Mac keeps it's additions here:<br />
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~/Library/Spelling/*<br />
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Interestingly the Mac keeps track of spelling per language and region. It seems both Mac and OOo seemed to have the need to come up with a binary format for the dictionaries. Fortunately, simply typing 'strings' seems to ferret out all the words. Why would they choose a binary format, for a file containing mostly just plain text? As much as I dislike XML, for the size of the custom dictionaries, and the speed required, XML could be used to do the job. <br />
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Here's what's in my dictionaries. Maybe I could start a blog meme where people could post the words they've added to their custom dictionary. It should be interesting to see how many hits I get on this page once Google indexes it.<br />
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Obie<br />
lexx<br />
Egge<br />
ThoughtWorks<br />
Solaris<br />
Fernandez<br />
Castagna<br />
Anadara<br />
Anadara's<br />
Jetendra<br />
Chan's<br />
spammers<br />
Bastet<br />
Gelato<br />
Macquarie<br />
Annaluisa<br />
Macquarie<br />
brianegge<br />
Raki<br />
Saurabh<br />
Saurabh's<br />
trendline<br />
divergences<br />
WBSWG6<br />
Castagna<br />
CruiseControl<br />
HTTPUnit<br />
JBoss<br />
JProfiler<br />
JUnit<br />
LinkSys<br />
Mastercard<br />
Multicast<br />
QuickFIX<br />
Sybase<br />
Tibco<br />
Weblogic<br />
XDoclet<br />
XStream<br />
WBSWG6<br />
Equivolume<br />
FOTech<br />
FreeMarker<br />
JBoss<br />
Jarrod<br />
ThoughtWorks<br />
Trendlines<br />
Weblogic<br />
diversifiable<br />
equivolume<br />
expiry<br />
payout<br />
repo<br />
signalling<br />
superannuation<br />
trendline<br />
volatilities<br />
</pre></div>Egge