spell checker issue

Caolán McNamara caolanm at redhat.com
Thu Oct 25 08:37:29 PDT 2012


On Mon, 2012-10-15 at 09:37 +0200, Németh László wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Adding a simple new item to the en_US.dic, like
> 
> men's
> 
> will extend the dictionary. The biggest plus in the American English
> dictionary of LibreOffice is the morphological data (also based on
> Kevin's data and maybe WordNet) for stemming and morphological
> generation in thesaurus suggestions, see the attached conversion
> script in https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=19563.

So basically one attractive route to go would be to build our dictionary
at LibreOffice build time ourselves from wordnet +
custom-libreoffice-words patch + that script. Which would give us
something we can easily sync whenever wordnet gets updated without
losing the extra morphological data. Or is there any gotchas with doing
that ?

C.



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