Ooo writer: autocorrect MIA?

[Matthew Woehlke]

Tim wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 23:00 -0500, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
>> How do I enable autocorrect in writer? The help says to go to 
>> autocorrect->options and check 'use replacement table', but there is
>> no such option. Any thoughts? I'm using 2.4.1-17.4.fc9.i386 (Fedora
>> 9).
> 
> I seem to recall that feature was taken out thanks to patent paranoia.

Oy... Seriously, if we can replace boring quotes with left/right pairs, 
or autocomplete words, *how* is that sufficiently different from 
autocorrect that the latter is patentable while the former are not? How 
are *CJK input methods* not patentable? (For that matter, how is 
autocorrect patentable, period? This smells like something begging to be 
challenged and thrown out.)

/me no like ridiculous software patents :P

> You could try uninstalling the Fedora supplied package, and installing
> the one from the OpenOffice.org website, but then you need to keep it up
> to date, yourself, it'll be orphaned from "yum update".

Sigh. I guess I'll have to do that.

-- 
Matthew
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