Hello! I am Marco from Portugal and I have been involved on several projects in the past.
I have translated Pretty Good Privacy 2.6.3i to pt_PT back in 1997, which was my first translation. I have also translated Gpg4win, OpenSlides, sites and other documentation. Lately I have dedicated most of my free time to my PhD project/thesis, to the British Dictionary, to my tool Proofing Tool GUI and LanguageTool. Around three years ago I had the idea of creating a place to store the most up-to-date English dictionaries so that I could create OXTs for AOO and LO and so that people could download the files from there to other projects. I have been trying to find the original authors and get their most recent files but most of them are gone for a long-time, thus my fork of en_GB. I created a GitHub repository and there are already persons/companies that download the files from there using scripts. When I created my tool, Proofing Tool GUI, the first goal was to create a thesaurus editor and the second to create a dictionary editor. Both have been accomplished. I offered myself to improve the thesaurus of the pt_PT language for Minho University, but they never said anything so the project was halted (I will resume somewhere in the future). But other persons are developing thesauri using Proofing Tool GUI. I have also forked and been improving en_GB and have added so far around 21K words and I am releasing it as extensions for Mozilla, OpenOffice and LibreOffice: *Mozilla (British):* https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/british-english-dictionary-2 *OpenOffice:* http://extensions.openoffice.org/en/project/english-dictionaries-apache-openoffice *LibreOffice:* http://extensions.libreoffice.org/extension-center/english-dictionaries Notice that for AOO and LO I am releasing OXTs with several English Dictionaries. My forked en_GB is the best British dictionary around and I have even bought a Gold Account in Oxford Dictionaries in order to test the words so that I may add them if needed. I first paste texts into Thunderbird and, if it appears as typos, I check them in Oxford and add them if they are valid words. Since the en_GB that came with AOO was obfuscated, I grabbed the one from Mozilla around three years ago. I do monthly releases of en_GB. This is what I have been doing for nearly three years. I and other people realised that the bundled dictionaries were totally outdated and I had some difficulties setting up the technical stuff (Git, Gerrit, etc.) and I had a discussion on IRC that a push is very likely not going to be merged because of some licence problems and such. Thanks! Kind regards, >Marco A.G.Pinto ----------------------- -- -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/l10n/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
