-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Hello community,
I was having some discussions with dictionary maintainers and come to a completely new idea for a new project! The TL;DR version: Provide a central place for dictionaries maintainers including useful tools plus a possibility for easier collaboration. The long version: LibreOffice uses dictionaries based on Hunspell. Hunspell is a free, open source project. Many applications do support Hunspell based dictionaries. The following list (but not exclusive) of applications supporting Hunspell based dictionaries is shameless copied from the German Wikipedia: * AOO * LibO * Mozilla products ** Thunderbird ** Seamonkey ** Firefox * Latex IDEs: WinShell, TexWorks, LyX, Texmaker, TeXstudio, etc. * Google Chrome * The Bat * Emacs * Opera Web Browsr * Apple Mac OS X 10.6+ * Adobe InDesign * Adobe FrameMaker * SoftMaker Office * Scribus and many, many more applications. Some applications additional provide their own dictionary extension page to download dictionaries. Moreover depending on the applications, the dictionary have to be differently packed (simplest example is a different file extensions) Some projects do maintain their extension separately (independently). Also the user who wants to propose a change / an addition has mostly no easy solution to find out whom to contact to get another word added. The basis idea is to provide a portal which provides tools to pack the word lists to dictionaries automatically by scripts and - if possible - to update and upload the new version of the dictionary to the download pages. (e.g. the extension centre of AOO / LO or Mozilla's page) The portal should provide a way for users to help the maintainers and proposing new words or contact the maintainer if there are errors in the word list. The manual work of packaging the extension is very time consuming and moreover leads to situations that there might be multiple maintained versions for the same language. By providing tools to create a new version of the dictionary the maintainer can invest their time in improving the dictionary and release easily more often a new version. I'm eager to hear what do you thing about this idea. Regards, Dennis Roczek -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJXHe28AAoJEM4+Qf3OKrbZciAP/j9iahmzxZ+13CaRDZ/bdNkz 3pPstw8vwRJLam42Re1PXc0BICCN6xm/viLuTHGjyeNQ8/5FpVTrqIX0Wuzd0btc v8nTb8dLTh7W58sRulKomifyffFfp4GUXHGVQGFE2H6A15o82EMsKnnLmWIx2VXc tPBwz0+3Em2+FF6B6dDprqfG6NO5Oboi23TVlFDigfINLF93swtb31AbZI9zBlUW jybWc2rkCLqn3lj4jJVCawvw8/HQTmWFy7qeUxR66mcsSnA+g1AnNbmJiEvoj4mh yscy+VxQXPcdYbRZOYF3ahT81JqDmJ7jxPIAMFGM6FEVvrZhRsO/huFJ+mrbCKck qEDYCP+xhCA9JFt6gBTBYcaXvdNR0mnv0JNYSzTnUfMRvprGxEW3FueclcueN+IG P+ijmr5lBc5rhRZI8waRQMdzPO091f81UkONWEBRYsV+AOH8D8j1BeyF78wWPqII ZvsMFpF6VuOSknoDNR++EiuwHcXDy9gWy/Kdn9epHHSJdxyGob+m6j0Tnx2y0KpF +plJZls8p2VhlvlzAXTrtfeBimucY+rWEkdhG288uhed9xvRUNx9EMfPOdbwvrK1 xxTH72VtY7NM9NNPUZDXuL4hb2jzJf4v0VMqP3TzVakkSqMBK7vqthmXI+guIWwW FRFYtRi9Z3yd9UDnsLR/ =iapJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: projects+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/projects/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted