Hi Amos,
Rabbi Alan Yaniger has completed integrating hspell into OpenOffice on
Windows and Linux. There are still a couple of glitches to work out, in
particular, 1) integration of the private dictionary feature and 2)
out-of-the-box configuration.
The first problem, the private dictionary, is caused by OpenOffice's use
of MySpell file formats for dictionaries. The second problem should
not present any technical difficulty, we just haven't gotten to it yet.
In general, the port of hspell was more difficult that we originally
expected for several reasons. One reason was that we had to do Windows and
Solaris ports on our own. Another reason is that OpenOffice expects a
MySpell interface. A third reason is the preprocessing the we need to do
on OOo program load to set up the dictionary files.
We hope to finish porting all of our work to Linux, Windows and Solaris
platforms of RC5 (the officially released version of OpenOffice 1.1.0, on
Monday next week. Up to now we have been working on RC3. There is a
delta of UI translation work to do between RC3 and RC5 also. That will
probably take a week to ten days together with QA, so I expect that we
will be ready around November 1. The precise release date to the public
will be decided by Motti Sadovsky and Boaz Dolev, our principal sponsors.
Regards,
- yba
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I found in the archives of this list some mentioning of connecting
> Hspell with OpenOffice to provide Hebrew spell-checking for OpenOffice.
>
> I'm trying to convince a friend who needs to write a lot of Hebrew
> (with an English user interface, that's OK) and Hebrew spell-checking
> is crucial to him since he is not a native Hebrew speaker.
>
> Is there any progress in this front?
>
> Thanks,
>
> --Amos
>
>
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