Rob Weir wrote:
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 8:26 AM, rain <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: My name is George Odhiambo ... and create a DHOLUO Dictionary ... http://voxel.dl.sourceforge.net/project/hunspell/Hunspell/Documentation/hunspell4.pdf As you can see, a spell checking dictionary is more than just a list of words. It also can define rules for how other words can be formed.
This is true. But we can help George building a dictionary even starting from a very simple wordlist. For example, George can send us a list of 100 words in Dholuo and we can package a proof-of-concept dictionary for OpenOffice with that information.
George, is the Dholuo language you wish to support this one? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_639:luo We may need to add support for that language to OpenOffice, but this is still feasible.
If you want to see a proof-of-concept Dholuo dictionary for OpenOffice, just build a list of at least 100 Dholuo words (a few thousands would be much better, but these will suffice for a quick feasibility test). Then package them following the guidelines Rob sent, or my FOSDEM presentation https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/event/apache_openoffice_dictionaries/ or simply send us the list and we will do the packaging.
Regards, Andrea.
