Spell checking in our desktop is sort of a bit messy. At the moment OpenOffice.org 2.0.X uses hunspell, the successor of "myspell". Our OOo build has these hunspell libs as part of the OOo install. The various hunspell dictionaries are then bundled in each OOo langpack. I see that our Fedora Thunderbird contains a copy of myspell lib, but no bundled dictionaries (?) So it's a unfortunate that OOo has dictionaries for a pile of languages which thunderbird is unaware of, but would be able to use without (probably) too much effort. And then we have our traditional aspell and the various aspell dictionaries. Recently I see that vim has added some sort of support for using the OOo hunspell/myspell dictionaries, (http://ftp.vim.org/vim/runtime/spell/README.txt) But I'm not sure what our fedora vim's status is here re that. So, here's the hunspell webpage http://hunspell.sourceforge.net and some commentary on aspell/hunspell/myspell and firefox http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/ben/archives/016618.html So what would be our *ideal* situation here ? >From my side it'd be something like... a) standalone hunspell (easy) b) OOo uses standalone hunspell (easy, maybe a bit of tweaking to autodetect system install dictionaries instead of existing config files) c) firefox/thunderbird migrates from myspell to hunspell (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=319778) and autodetects available dictionaries d) something or other is done to sanity-ify the vim usage of the hunspell dictionaries to use them directly to avoid the rather baroque procedure of the vim spell README (?) e) someone else maintains the various hunspell per-language dictionaries as separate rpms :-) f) migrate other stuff from aspell to hunspell ? Add some aspell compatibility stuff to hunspell to be a drop in replacement for aspell ? Keep aspell, tweak it to handle hunspell dictionaries ? Ignore that the hunspell dictionaries are just extended aspell dictionaries, and keep the parallel set of aspell format dictionaries and aspell. C. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
