On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 20:10 +0100, Caolan McNamara wrote: > 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. IIRC abiword uses a library called "enchant" to try to abstract away dictionary backends. There's some documentation about it here: http://www.abisource.com/projects/enchant/ Dunno how well it would integrate with OO.org Hope this helps Dave -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
