Thanks, slacka. > To answer your first and third question, we use hunspell not myspell.
Ok. I knew that hunspell was used, but was not sure about the location LO looks in for dictionary files. /usr/share/hunspell contains the spell checking dictionaries and these are linked to from /usr/share/myspell and similarly for thesauri (/usr/share/mythes) and hyphenation files (/usr/share/hyphen), so I guess LO also looks in /usr/share/mythes and /usr/share/hyphen. > For the spellcheck function to work, LibreOffice requires both the main > hunspell > package along with a language dictionary (hunspell-en for English, > hunspell-de for German, etc). Hunspell is covered; I'm focusing on dictionary files (spelling, thesaurus, hyphenation). Let's consider the French dictionaries from their source <http://www.dicollecte.org/>. These contain fr-classique, fr-moderne, fr-toutesvariantes, and fr-reforme1990 spelling dictionaries. These are installed in /usr/share/hunspell and picked up, e.g., by Firefox. However, LO does not pick them up, apparently because their filenames are not of the form xx_YY, but of the form xx-zzzz. The oxt file distributed by dicollecte contains a dictionaries.xcu file and a Python script that deals with this when installed by the user, so not system-wide. What I want to achieve is that the xcu file and other relevant files are installed system-wide in such a way that LO picks them up and things work the same way as if the oxt file was installed per-user. *Where should I put those files?* > For a package maintainer, your main concern should be that the language > dictionary > associated with the user’s locales is installed. Well, in Gentoo it is not done that way, but that is not too important here. (This is reasonable: for example, I don't have French locatlizations installed, but do write French texts from time to time. In short: dictionaries should not be too tightly coupled to locales.) Best, Erik _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
