Hi, while this was sent roughly a month ago but obviously nobody answered. So let me try.
Tachiko Aiba wrote: > Not sure how many people are aware of it, but there is an ever growing > desire for good Japanese word processors for free. Sure, they could just > download and set up Open Office in Japanese, but... there are two points > I'd like to just throw out there to the Open Office community. > > 1) Students of the Japanese language (or other languages, I'm sure) > would love to be able to keep their English interface, while being able > to switch between Japanese & English inputs, thus, being able to have > Japanese and English in the same document, while keeping the English > menus. Not only might this be helpful to the English/Japanese community, > but I think it would be great for other languages that use other > alphabets. As an idea, couldn't someone write something into the program > where you can switch between English (or other languages) and foreign > alphabets, without having to install Open Office in those languages? You don't need to install OOo in a different UI language just to be able to use other dictionaries. You can keep the UI language of your choice and install more dictionaries using "File-Wizards-Dictionaries". In future versions of OOo (3.0!) we will provide more dictionaries as OOo extensions. > 2) Specific to the Japanese/English community, there is a well known set > of dictionaries (the Edict and Kanjidic dictionaries) made by > individuals which are constantly being updated. For some (students for > instance), they would use the crappiest software on earth... if they > could get a great dictionary with it. These dictionaries can be > downloaded free and used by many programs, some open source. Among the > dictionaries you can get from that project, are dictionaries that go > well beyond normal ones (which are great if you can use multiple > dictionaries in a program), such as the Name dictionary, or specific > terms dictionaries like the legal terms dictionary. If you knew someone who would like to work with us on that you could point him to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list where the folks working on OOo linguistic are lurking. Supporting a new dictionary format basically is doable, it could be provided even as an extension for OOo that can be installed seperately. Best regards, Mathias -- 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]
