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Dear all,
I'm new to this list in so far as I have been away from it for the last couple of years. I am the maintainer of the en_GB dictionary and was one of the original authors of the first fully edited version of it.
Anyway, I have a question to which I wasn't able to find the answer in the list archives.
I am in the process of creating an en_GB-oed version of the dictionary. The main thing about this dictionary is that it follows the house style rules of the OED (Oxford English Dictionary). This is the style that is most widely used in international organisations like the UN etc. It seems that they do not have any satisfactory dictionary at present - the MS Word dictionary is apparently a poor match against the style. It would really be a coup is OOo could be the first suite to launch a quality spelling check dictionary that meets the OED style rules. So that is what I want to achieve.
I created an initial version which I cloned from the en_GB dictionary and this is where I run into a problem. I can install and use either the en_GB dictionary or the en_GB-oed dictionary and I achieve this by editing the dictionary.lst file. What I'd like to do is have both installed and select between them without having to manually edit the dictionary.lst file and restart OOo. I don't think that solution is acceptable to users.
It seems that the problem is both dictionaries are "en" and "GB" which is English (UK). I can find no way of selecting between two dictionaries that are both English (UK). I need both because when I (and others) write for the local press I want to use the en_GB dictionary, but when I write for the international community I want to use the en_GB-oed dictionary.
Checking against all languages (dictionaries) is not an option because each dictionary contains some words not in the other, although there is a large core of common words. I could split them into three dictionaries: 1) a core en_GB dictionary, 2) an en_GB-general dictionary and 3) an en_GB-oed dictionary, but then I'd need to check against either 1 and 2 or 1 and 3, but not against all three.
So is there any way of doing this?
TIA David. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux)
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