In some cases, it comes down to having someone around who knows how to fix the problem and has undertaken to do so. The writing tools require an entirely different expertise than working on the source code. Some of them are, by virtue of their licenses, not maintainable directly by the Apache Project.
Many of us can identify defects while lacking the means or circumstances where a repair can be offered and confirmed. - Dennis PS: If you know of a non-proprietary source of a correct en-US hyphenator, that might be something that could be looked into. PPS: The hyphenation dictionary distributed with Apache OpenOffice 4.0 is dated 2010-03-06. Sorry. (The one in LibreOffice was last updated in 2011-10-07, but that also involved an updated to use Hyphen 2.8.2). -----Original Message----- From: Virgil Arrington [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, July 20, 2013 04:50 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: AOO-Members dont forget voting [ ... ] The slow pace of development at Apache is equally frustrating. AOO 3.4.1 is a nice program ... except for the inability of the U.S. English version to properly hyphenate words (See bug 119087). This bug has been around for years preventing the use of AOO for serious work in America when hyphenation is required. I assume (perhaps incorrectly) that it will be corrected in Ver. 4, but it has been frustrating to wait for Apache to release a new version until it gets everything right. Perhaps some sort of interim release fixing known and critical bugs could be made. Surely there can be some compromise between LO's torrid release pace and AOO's seemingly non-existent pace. Virgil --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
