Re: [libreoffice-users] How to define a dictionary for new language?

2013-08-01 Thread Kracked_P_P---webmaster
There are official dialects and then there are those that just pronounce the words differently or uses different phrase styles. As for a language dialect, say using different words, like the various non-English languages spoken in the UK, or ones that are based in English variants from 500

[libreoffice-users] How to define a dictionary for new language?

2013-07-31 Thread Sergio Martino
Hi, a friend of mine would like to build a dictionary for a local dialect and he asked for my help. First I build the aff and dic files and I tested them with hunspell. It works. Next I was able to construct an oxt which install correctly. However the new language do not appear in the list of

Re: [libreoffice-users] How to define a dictionary for new language?

2013-07-31 Thread Andrew Brown
Hi Sergio Have you tried to add it under Tools - Options - Language settings and then the sub-options of Languages and Writing aids. This might guide you to get the language into your workspace. Regards Andrew Brown On 31/07/2013 10:07 AM, Sergio Martino wrote: Hi, a friend of mine would

Re: [libreoffice-users] How to define a dictionary for new language?

2013-07-31 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :)  1.  Have you been in contact with the translators mailing list?  The one international one brings together people with a lot of skills from most of the various languages on offer.  They might be able to help with this sort of thing. 2.  Which language? 3.  Congrats on an amazing amount

Re: [libreoffice-users] How to define a dictionary for new language?

2013-07-31 Thread Andrew Brown
Hi Sergio Ok, went back to look at this to try and help further, as I was able to load my countries two of the 11 languages I wanted to use, this way. In Tools - Options - Language settings - Languages in the section Language of and field Locale setting can you see your created

Re: [libreoffice-users] How to define a dictionary for new language?

2013-07-31 Thread Krunoslav Šebetić
On 07/31/2013 10:07 AM, Sergio Martino wrote: Hi, a friend of mine would like to build a dictionary for a local dialect and he asked for my help. First I build the aff and dic files and I tested them with hunspell. It works. Can you help me to do this, is there any tutorial or something? How

Re: [libreoffice-users] How to define a dictionary for new language?

2013-07-31 Thread Kracked_P_P---webmaster
On 07/31/2013 06:24 AM, Krunoslav Šebetić wrote: On 07/31/2013 10:07 AM, Sergio Martino wrote: Hi, a friend of mine would like to build a dictionary for a local dialect and he asked for my help. First I build the aff and dic files and I tested them with hunspell. It works. Can you help me

Re: [libreoffice-users] How to define a dictionary for new language?

2013-07-31 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) It seems to be for a fairly specific area of Italy.  I'm not even sure if the dialect has a separate name.  In England we have a lot of different types of 'English' some of which are completely incomprehensible to an outsider living as far as 30miles away.  None of my family ever

Re: [libreoffice-users] How to define a dictionary for new language?

2013-07-31 Thread Doug
On 07/31/2013 03:50 PM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) /snip/ In England we have a lot of different types of 'English' some of which are completely incomprehensible to an outsider living as far as 30miles away. None of my family ever understood my Gran for example, but she was always there

Re: [libreoffice-users] How to define a dictionary for new language?

2013-07-31 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I still hear a lot of differences in even very common phrases used in different areas of the US.  I think it's inevitable whenever people group together in any way.  The media seems to average things out a bit but it's more like a trading language that doesn't really belong to anywhere