Re: Dictionaries
Hi,
I was away on vaction and just saw this. AFAIK Mozilla is using its
version of MySpell which is dictionary compatible with the OOo ones so you
might want to name them something or organize them somehow so that they
are useful for Mozilla users too.
Hope this helps,
Kevin
On July 26, 2002 10:04, Chris Halls wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 02:50:50PM +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote:
> > Anyways, how do you think should this work?
>
> OK, for the benefit of those on the list we just thrashed this out on
> IRC. We'd like to do the following:
>
> * openoffice.org Suggests: openoffice.org-spellcheck
>
> * Each language pack Suggests: openoffice.org-spellcheck-<lang>
> where <lang> is de, fr, en etc..
>
> * Where this is only one dictionary for a language (-fr?), that will be
> called openoffice.org-spellcheck-<lang> and provide -spellcheck
>
> * Where there are several dictionaries, they will be called e.g. -de-de
> and -de-ch, and each will provide -spellcheck-de and -spellcheck
>
> * The special case of -de-de also providing the Austrian dictionary
> will be openoffice.org-spellcheck-de-de Provides: -spellcheck-de-at.
>
> Phew! Why so complicated? We want to support the following scenarios:
>
> - A user installs openoffice.org and is looking for dictionaries, so
> all dicts Provides: -spellcheck.
>
> - A user installs a language pack, so we Suggests: dictionaries for
> that language and the dictionaries use Provides: -spellcheck-<lang>
>
> - A user knows exactly which language to install and tries to install
> using the dictionary name:
>
> e.g. apt-get openoffice.org-spellcheck-de-at.
>
> Jerome, how does that sound to you for French?
>
> Chris
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