Hi László, in case you don't plan to extend the dictionary for the 3.1 release, we can at least update the bundled extension and make sure that it is the same as in the repository. As I have a CWS with updated and new dictionaries for 3.1 I could volunteer to do that.
Regards, Mathias Németh László wrote: > Hi, > > I will make a new en_US dictionary based on Kevin's new data, also a > new CWS for the en_US dictionary upgrade. I have no information about > the status of the en_US extension, but you are right, it would be fine > to maintain the extension as official release. The main goal of the > planned dictionary upgrade is extending the dictionary with > morphological data for better thesaurus usage and it depends from the > CWS hunspell4thesaurus integration (I wait for the respond of the QA, > see > http://eis.services.openoffice.org/EIS2/cws.ShowCWS?Path=DEV300%2Fhunspell4thesaurus). > > Best regards, > László > > 2008/11/27 Robert Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Hello, >> >> I Just wanted to say this is great news that an official English >> dictionaries update will be maintained on the Extensions website. >> >> I had a user ask me recently on the community forums how they could get an >> English dictionary because they lived in France and had that version of the >> installer. I ended up just privately sending them the extension that is >> unpacked in the install directory, and only realised then that this was a >> bit of loophole. >> >> Regards >> Robert Black >> >> 2008/11/27 Marcin Miłkowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >>> Kevin Atkinson pisze: >>> >>> On Thu, 27 Nov 2008, Marcin Mikowski wrote: >>>> >>>> Kevin Atkinson pisze: >>>>> >>>>>> On Tue, 25 Nov 2008, Kevin Atkinson wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> On Wed, 26 Nov 2008, Marcin Mi?kowski wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> who is responsible now for maintaining the official en_US dictionary >>>>>>>> for OOo? There is an extension on the extension website but it's a bit >>>>>>>> older >>>>>>>> than the version distributed with OOo, so it cannot be considered an >>>>>>>> update >>>>>>>> (it also has a wrong version scheme). Ideally, the extension should >>>>>>>> become a >>>>>>>> bit more official (so that the maintainer could be assigned issues in >>>>>>>> IZ to >>>>>>>> update it) and the dictionary should be brought in sync with the >>>>>>>> current >>>>>>>> distributed version (I've just found an error in it - it contains a >>>>>>>> non-dictionary word 'underly' that is absent in all spelling >>>>>>>> dictionaries I >>>>>>>> have access to - or marked as a typo). >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I am responsible for the contents of the dictionary but Németh László < >>>>>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> is responsible for actually creating the >>>>>>> release. See "Additional Information" at >>>>>>> http://wordlist.sourceforge.net/. >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Until a new official dictionary (or extension) is released you can use >>>>>> en en_US dictionary I created for Mozilla which you can find attached to >>>>>> this bug report: >>>>>> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=397150 >>>>>> or download it directly: >>>>>> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=290079 >>>>>> >>>>>> I am going to email Németh László to work out how to create new official >>>>>> dictionary. >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> As far as I understand the new process, it should be created as an >>>>> extension. The problem is that there is already an en-US dictionary >>>>> extension there, so you might want to contact its maintainer to make >>>>> him/her >>>>> responsible for updates (as Laci seems to be sufficiently busy doing lots >>>>> of >>>>> work on hunspell). >>>>> >>>> >>>> And how will I do that, he does not provide any way to contact him that I >>>> can see other than posting a public comment (and yes I logged in). >>>> >>> >>> I've checked the ID of the extension offered - it's not the same as the >>> official dicts: org.openoffice.en.hunspell.dictionaries, so another, >>> official English dictionary extension can be built by the official >>> maintainers, which is you, Laci, or anyone else you think fit for the role. >>> It would be then picked up during update, and, according to the plan that >>> was posted here on this list some time ago, the extensions will be >>> automatically updated in OOo (=added to the source codebase) based on the >>> extension website in the future. >>> >>> >>> Regards, >>> Marcin >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> >>> >> -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other mails sent to it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
