Re: [libreoffice-l10n] English Dictionaries Project - Introduction by Marco Pinto

2016-05-03 Thread Kruno
For small languages even having a spell checker is huge. There's quite a few English dictionaries out there to help you with this or that, but when whole country has population equivalent to only one (average) US city, everything is extra hard. That is why is such a tool _more_ then welco

Re: [libreoffice-l10n] English Dictionaries Project - Introduction by Marco Pinto

2016-05-03 Thread Kruno
03.05.2016 u 20:35, toki je napisao/la: On 03/05/2016 15:51, Kruno wrote: not doubled maintained word lists by multiple maintainers (not knowing each other) will not and can not be resolved. With a central repository for working on dictionaries, it is far easier for two individuals intere

Re: [libreoffice-l10n] English Dictionaries Project - Introduction by Marco Pinto

2016-05-03 Thread Kruno
03.05.2016 u 20:49, Michael Bauer je napisao/la: Totally disagree from experience. Of course, both is better but you try working in a language with not even a spellchecker and then get someone to count the errors. Even mediocre spellcheck coverage kills a good % of typos. I just have to take a

Re: [libreoffice-l10n] English Dictionaries Project - Introduction by Marco Pinto

2016-05-03 Thread Michael Bauer
Totally disagree from experience. Of course, both is better but you try working in a language with not even a spellchecker and then get someone to count the errors. Even mediocre spellcheck coverage kills a good % of typos. I just have to take a random Gaelic page off the BBC and dump it in LO

Re: [libreoffice-l10n] English Dictionaries Project - Introduction by Marco Pinto

2016-05-03 Thread toki
On 03/05/2016 15:51, Kruno wrote: not doubled maintained word lists by multiple maintainers (not knowing each other) will not and can not be resolved. With a central repository for working on dictionaries, it is far easier for two individuals interested in the same dictionary to find each

Re: [libreoffice-l10n] English Dictionaries Project - Introduction by Marco Pinto

2016-05-03 Thread Marco A.G.Pinto
Michael and people, I make a brief explanation of how .AFF files work in Proofing Tool GUI's manual: http://marcoagpinto.cidadevirtual.pt/proofingtoolgui_files/ProofingToolGUI_manual_V30.html But it is an unfinished manual since I haven't had much free time to work on everything. Kind regards,

Re: [libreoffice-l10n] English Dictionaries Project - Introduction by Marco Pinto

2016-05-03 Thread Michael Bauer
There are many things about Hunspell that make me shake my head in disbelief ;) All the more so given how widely used it is. Like the lack of documentation to the outside world. I mean, like a user friendly "Here is how you make a spellchecker for your language" and "All about affixes" page. Bu

Re: [libreoffice-l10n] English Dictionaries Project - Introduction by Marco Pinto

2016-05-03 Thread Kruno
03.05.2016 u 17:58, Michael Bauer je napisao/la: Sgrìobh Kruno na leanas 03/05/2016 aig 16:51: will not and can not be resolved. Who's dictionary to include to that single repository, how to merge them, how to resolve different concepts (what to include, what to exclude), how to merge af

Re: [libreoffice-l10n] English Dictionaries Project - Introduction by Marco Pinto

2016-05-03 Thread Michael Bauer
Sgrìobh Kruno na leanas 03/05/2016 aig 16:51: will not and can not be resolved. Who's dictionary to include to that single repository, how to merge them, how to resolve different concepts (what to include, what to exclude), how to merge affix files with different affix classes (that will b

Re: [libreoffice-l10n] English Dictionaries Project - Introduction by Marco Pinto

2016-05-03 Thread Kruno
03.05.2016 u 13:29, Dennis Roczek je napisao/la: And in this paragraph is lying more stuff than some might imagine. Marco is doing a great job, but because of the underestimate of the hunspell features and the "wrongly" used git, he is not able to update the bundled dictionary of LibreOffice (thr

Re: [libreoffice-l10n] English Dictionaries Project - Introduction by Marco Pinto

2016-05-03 Thread Dennis Roczek
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi *, Am 01.05.2016 um 16:25 schrieb Marco A.G.Pinto: > Hello! > > This is what I have been doing for nearly three years. > > I and other people realised that the bundled dictionaries were totally > outdated and I had some difficulties setting up

Re: [libreoffice-l10n] English Dictionaries Project - Introduction by Marco Pinto

2016-05-03 Thread Michael Bauer
Appreciate your good work Marco, many thanks! Michael Sgrìobh Marco A.G.Pinto na leanas 01/05/2016 aig 15:25: My forked en_GB is the best British dictionary around and I have even bought a Gold Account in Oxford Dictionaries in order to test the words so that I may add them if needed. I first p