AFAIK, hunspell is used for all dictionaries so the problem is not the engine but the dictionary itself: they need to be build around the idea of using compound words and that huge work (it seems) is not complete yet.
Ricardo 2011/3/2 Friedrich Strohmaier <damokles4-lis...@bits-fritz.de>: > Hi Robert, *, > > I'm not very deep involved in spellchecking, but nevertheless trying a > shot.. > > Robert Derman schrieb: > >> RGB ES wrote: >>> AFAIK, LibO dictionaries are the same dictionaries from OOo. If you >>> have a custom dictionary where you added the words you miss, you can >>> "import" (I mean, copy to the right location) that dictionary into >>> LibO user profile. See here for more details about the user profile: >>> http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/UserProfile > >>> 2011/2/20 Robert Derman <robert.der...@pressenter.com> : >>>> One of the reasons, perhaps the main reason I have not upgraded to >>>> LO from OpenOffice 3.1 yet is that I dread having to go through the >>>> process of adding over a thousand compound words to the spellcheck >>>> dictionary. This dictionary has almost NO compound words in it! >>>> Does anyone know if this problem has been addressed with LO 3.3. I >>>> am using the U.S. English version. If this severe shortcoming has >>>> not yet been addressed yet, I think we should do so before version >>>> 3.4. > > If I remember well german, dictionary changed to hunspell dictionary > engine for that reason. German and many more languages' words are > compound words in a very wide range so that problem arose from > beginning. Not shure what spellchecking engine is used for english > languages spellchecking - I guess it's aspell which has poor support for > compound words. > > But all guessed. Not enough insight in that topic. > > [.. impact of poor spellchecking ..] > > Gruß/regards > -- > Friedrich > Libreoffice-Box http://libreofficebox.org/ > LibreOffice and more on CD/DVD images > (german version already started) > > > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org > Archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ > *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity *** > > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
