On Mon, Nov 15, 2004, Charles-H.Schulz wrote about "Re: [OOo-Hebrew] Translation and Internationalization": > I think it would be feasible through the Dictionnary Installer, Dicooo. > Here's the link in > French:http://fr.openoffice.org/DicOOo/index_dicooo.htm > Dicooo is a macro actually, allowing you to download many dictionnaries > either for spellchecking or for hyphenation or thesauri. > The list of the available languages is here: > http://lingucomponent.openoffice.org/download_dictionary.html#dictpack > > Unfortunately Hebrew doesn't seem to be available. Maybe one could > consider a development of this dictionnary through the Lingucomponent > project?
After Alan Yaniger released his Hspell-based Hebrew spell-checker for Open Office, we (the Hspell project) also managed to create a Myspell dictionary for Hebrew. We currently use this for Hebrew spell-checking in Mozilla (see http://www.ivrix.org.il/projects/spell-checker/download.html), but if OpenOffice also uses Myspell to do its spell-checking, this means that Hebrew can be added just like French or any other language can be added. I still prefer Alan's original approach (because it allows special correction code for Hebrew, recognition of gimatria, and other tweaks that can't be done with myspell), but this one isn't too bad either. The fact that the Hspell-based dictionary is GPL, not LGPL, shouldn't be a problem because it won't come prepackaged with OpenOffice anyway. It will lie as a seperate package, only to be installed with the user asked for it. The Aspell spell-checker on Linux follows a similar approach: Users install the LGPL "Aspell" with only English support, and then can individually install language packages, some of them are GPL. -- Nadav Har'El | Tuesday, Nov 16 2004, 3 Kislev 5765 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |"I'll doublecross that bridge when I come http://nadav.harel.org.il |to it" (a politician about the future) -- Hebrew OpenOffice Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe see: http://openoffice.org.il/mailman/listinfo/hebrew
