Alexandro Colorado wrote:
I was talking about this with Marco the other day, it is indeed confusing
understanding how this dictionary is being built. First of all it seems
this dictionary havent been update in a long time.
You are correct. The dictionary was taken from the OpenOffice 3.3
sources and had to be moved to an extension for licensing reasons, so I
created the extension. But I don't actively maintain it: I may integrate
updates from others from time to time, but I have no connection to the
"upstream" people (the maintainers of those dictionaries). The only fix
I applied was to correct a long-standing bug in the hyphenation.
The best example, is the project that Santiago bosio and other community
members do for Spanish which is to not bundle the regionalizations but to
develop an engine that automate the generation for each one
This is good if you have a common basis. But now the dictionaries that
are aggregated into
http://extensions.openoffice.org/en/project/aoo-dict-en
come from different sources, and it would be quite hard to rework it.
That said, if someone wants to try we can surely benefit from it.
I am sure that this will be needed eventually
since the original developers of the Hunspell project (in what
OpenOffice.org took off) seemed to have move on.
Hunspell is the engine, and we continue to use as a spell-check engine
with no problems. If there is any "official" English dictionary shipped
with Hunspell, we can surely have a look and reuse it. Currently, for
continuity, we simply use the OpenOffice 3.3.0 dictionary with the
hyphenation fix and with (as discussed in this thread) Marco's
improvements for the OpenOffice 4.1 release. But if you have pointers to
updated upstreams we can update everything.
Regards,
Andrea.
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