Kelvin Eldridge wrote:
Hi,
This email is for Australian users of OpenOffice.org.
Some of you will remember me as the person who created the Australian English
dictionary for OpenOffice.org.
I decided a while ago to make special versions of the language files for
myself and my clients. These versions have the words with American spelling
removed. Over 1,800 words have been removed from the dictionary and initial
work has been started on the Thesaurus.
For example the word "organize" has been removed whilst the word "organise"
has been kept. In the Thesaurus the common words such as "color"
and "neighbor" plus many others have been removed.
This approach will not suit everyone as it is simply a matter of personal
choice.
If others are interested in obtaining the updated Australian English language
files please visit www.JustLocal.com.au, click on the OpenOffice.org graphic
and then complete the form.
Minimal spelling dictionaries of this kind are useful, and there
probably should be more of them, for example while variant spellings of
words are generally acceptable in a country, individual publishers,
journals, newspapers and so forth have their own conventions on which
spellings they themselves wish to standardize on.
For example, it would be convenient to be able to switch to an OOo
spelling dictionary that exactly corresponded to the recommendations of
the particular organization for which one was writing or editing, making
it much easier to find forms which don't comply with that organization's
spelling standards.
A useful dictionary would be one which recognized only the initial
spellings in the concise Oxford dictionary, as this is a world English
standard in academic publishing. Another dictionary might recognize only
the first spelling that appears in a standard Meriem Webster dictionary,
since such this is what a lot of publishers and academic journals in the
US accept as their standard.
Perhaps what would be useful is a third level of dictionary
categorization, that is not only language and locale but also individual
choice level. Accordingly, in an Australian document, the user could
perhaps select Kelvin Eldridge's new dictionary for text they are
writing themselves, if they wish, but apply the standard Australian
spelling dictionary with its variant spellings to quotations from other
Australian sources.
Jallan
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