On Mon, Nov 15, 2004, Gil Freund wrote about "[OOo-Hebrew] Translation and Internationalization": > While writing and editing in Hebrew is not an issue[1], the lack of a > Hebrew spell checker is. While it is possible to install OO in both > languages on the same system, The feedback I get is that this is an > annoying setup.
This is not only possible, it is even trivial. On openoffice.org.il you can find an add-on package for the standard (English) OpenOffice which adds Hebrew spell-checking (both English and Hebrew spell-checking continue to work, and you don't even need to choose between them). It is very easy to add on, and it is even easier if you have Fedora Core 1 or 2 (you can find RPMs that add the Hebrew spell-checking near the bottom of: http://www.ivrix.org.il/projects/spell-checker/download.html) The Hebrew spell-checking in OpenOffice is done using Hspell, the free Hebrew spell-checker written by myself and Dan Kenigsberg (see http://www.ivrix.org.il/projects/spell-checker/). The adaptation to OpenOffice was done by Alan Yaniger of TkOS. > It is my personal[2] belief that a Hebrew spell checker usable in the > main release of OO, together with the RTL spreadsheets will be a major > step in pushing OO into the academic and high tech areas. Hspell is GPL, and OO is LGPL (or something like it), so Hspell cannot be included inside OpenOffice. However, OpenOffice *can* include the code that uses a previously installed copy of Hspell, and/or a seperate Hspell-support add on can be distributed (like is done now). Users won't mind too much to install both "OpenOffice" and the additional "OpenOffice-Hebrew" addon to get the full Hebrew support (plus, Swedes, Americans and Germans won't need to waste space on their disk with the Hebrew stuff they don't want). -- Nadav Har'El | Tuesday, Nov 16 2004, 3 Kislev 5765 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |If con is the opposite of pro, is http://nadav.harel.org.il |congress the opposite of progress? -- Hebrew OpenOffice Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe see: http://openoffice.org.il/mailman/listinfo/hebrew
