2010/4/11 Dominique Pellé <[email protected]>:
> Tony Mechelynck wrote:
>
>> On 11/04/10 16:33, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
>> [...]
>>>
>>> It would also be nice if we can update the spell files.  Volunteers
>>> wanted!  See $VIMRUNTIME/spell/README.txt, the "MAINTAINING A LANGUAGE"
>>> section.
>>>
>>
>> IIUC, Mozilla uses the same spellfile format as Vim? If that's the case, and
>> if the Mozilla license (which, BTW, is undergoing revision, see among others
>> http://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2010/03/10/updating-the-mozilla-public-license/
>> ), or whatever other license some of these dictionaries may be using, is
>> found to be compatible with the Vim license, then maybe we could "just"
>> borrow the desired files from the dictionaries at
>> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/browse/type:3 ? (Note: an .xpi
>> is just a .zip under another name.)
>
>
> ":help spell-mkspell" says:

would be nice if there is a feature for english (american english) grammar.
even better a google plugin to suggest correct usage that grammar
alone may not help
like

   I is sick
   He was play football

stuff like that. I use vim as my email editor with mutt, so this would
be really useful

>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> You can create a Vim spell file from the .aff and .dic files that Myspell
> uses.  Myspell is used by OpenOffice.org and Mozilla.  You should be able to
> find them here:
>        http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Dictionaries
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> The link in help file contains dictionaries for the old OpenOffice-2.x.
>
> OpenOffice-3.x has changed the format of the dictionaries
> OpenOffice-3.x dictionaries are available at:
>
> http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/dictionary
>
> Does anybody knows whether it's possible to convert the
> OpenOffice-3.x dictionaries to Vim dictionaries?
>
> OpenOffice-3.x has more dictionaries than OpenOffice-2.x.
> For example, I'm interested in converting the Breton dictionary
> to Vim, but it's only available for OpenOffice-3.x and not OpenOffice-2.x.
>
> Cheers
> -- Dominique
>
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