Re: [tdf-discuss] Need for more compound words for spellcheck dictionary.

AFAIK, hunspell is used for all dictionaries so the problem is not the
engine but the dictionary itself: they need to be build around the
idea of using compound words and that huge work (it seems) is not
complete yet.

Ricardo

2011/3/2 Friedrich Strohmaier <damokles4-listen@bits-fritz.de>:
> Hi Robert, *,
>
> I'm not very deep involved in spellchecking, but nevertheless trying a
> shot..
>
> Robert Derman schrieb:
>
> > RGB ES wrote:
> > > AFAIK, LibO dictionaries are the same dictionaries from OOo.  If you
> > > have a custom dictionary where you added the words you miss, you can
> > > "import" (I mean, copy to the right location) that dictionary into
> > > LibO user profile. See here for more details about the user profile:
> > > http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/UserProfile
>
> > > 2011/2/20 Robert Derman <robert.derman@pressenter.com> :
> > > > One of the reasons, perhaps the main reason I have not upgraded to
> > > > LO from OpenOffice 3.1 yet is that I dread having to go through the
> > > > process of adding over a thousand compound words to the spellcheck
> > > > dictionary.  This dictionary has almost NO compound words in it!
> > > > Does anyone know if this problem has been addressed with LO 3.3.  I
> > > > am using the U.S. English version.  If this severe shortcoming has
> > > > not yet been addressed yet, I think we should do so before version
> > > > 3.4.
>
> If I remember well german, dictionary changed to hunspell dictionary
> engine for that reason. German and many more languages' words are
> compound words in a very wide range so that problem arose from
> beginning. Not shure what spellchecking engine is used for english
> languages spellchecking - I guess it's aspell which has poor support for
> compound words.
>
> But all guessed. Not enough insight in that topic.
>
> [.. impact of poor spellchecking ..]
>
> Gruß/regards
> --
> Friedrich
> Libreoffice-Box http://libreofficebox.org/
> LibreOffice and more on CD/DVD images
> (german version already started)
>
>
>
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