Re: Dictionaries
Hi Jerome,
> Do you have more info?
> I found http://spellchecker.mozdev.org, but it doesn't say much.
David Einstein is the one to talk to for more info. Basically, he took an
early version of MySpell and completely rewrote it to support Mozilla
string classes, specific file io, etc. It looks completely different from
the OOo version. Bascially he forked it with my very happy permission (I
am a mozilla user too and would love spellchecking!). We have long range
plans to merge the two versions some day but the OOo string classes and
the Netscape/Mozilla string classes are quite different as are file io and
the text parsing needs of Mozilla that OOo handles quite nicely for us.
Until then we agreed to keep the dictionary format compatible so that OOo
MySpell dictionaries (*.aff and *.dic) will work with Mozilla and
visa-versa.
I have not heard from David in a long time so I do not know if any of these
plans have changed and when Mozilla will roll out with its MySpell version
installed. I was hoping the 1.1 versions would have it.
> Maybe we should put dictionnaries completely outside of OpenOffice?
> In a shared location, with links if needed.
I think that would be best for both Mozilla and OOo in the long run. I am
not sure where/how MySpell dictionaries for Mozilla need to be installed.
It is probably time for me to do a build of Mozilla with the spellchecker
enabled.
Hope this helps,
Kevin
> Thanks
>
> >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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