On Tue, Mar 11, 2003, Uri Bruck wrote about "Re: Hebrew SpellChecker and OpenOffice/StarOffice SpellChecker engine": > > http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/lingucomponent/dictionary.html
Thanks. This link helped a lot. I hope it's up-to-date (at least in spirit, if not in detail) and that I understood it correctly. If myspell's affix compression works like I think it does, I belive that getting Hspell to generate a word list in that format is very doable. In fact, suffix compression is very useful for guranteeing a very small memory footprint of the running spellchecker (not only small on-disk footprint, which hspell already has), so Hspell will probably use something like it in the final release of the C interface in any case. I'll see what I can do about generating a affix-compressed word list in exactly the format needed for myspell, in which case there will be no need for any new C interface for Hspell to work in openoffice! (you'll only be giving up a few minor features of Hspell, like gimatria recognition, and the Hebrew-oriented correction suggestion tricks). If anybody else wants to take this task upon him or herself (I believe it is an interesting task, and I also think I know quite well how to go about doing it) please contact me in private. Also, if any of you OpenOffice guys could look into OpenOffice's actual spellchecker (and not some two-year-old documentation), learn what it can do out-of-the-box, and be prepared to answer questions about it, it would be nice. -- Nadav Har'El | Wednesday, Mar 12 2003, 8 Adar II 5763 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- Phone: +972-53-245868, ICQ 13349191 |What's tiny, yellow and very dangerous? A http://nadav.harel.org.il |canary with the super-user password.
