From: Alan Horkan (horkana@tcd.ie)
Date: Mon Jun 03 2002 - 12:02:46 EDT
I thought eventual migration to pspell/aspell was planned instead? (but
that it was held back by portability issues)
Just to keep you all informed, openoffice.org uses MySpell a pspell based
system they have developed and the changes are/were to be folded back into
pspell.
"A new spell checker called MySpell was written in C++ that supports
affix compression (based on Geoff Kuenning's wonderful Ispell). This code
has been donated to Pspell and will eventually make it into a future
Pspell release in some form after it has been integrated. In the
meanwhile, MySpell, which builds on almost any system will be used to
support spell checking under OpenOffice.org. Any work done to create and
support dictionaries/affix files for MySpell will also make the
transition to Pspell so that no work on the part of volunteers will be
lost."
Best of luck to whoever does decide to tackle this...
Sincerely
Alan
On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, Paul Rohr wrote:
> However, I'd also like to point out that this entire category of problems
> could be solved *permanently* by a sufficiently-clever programmer who's
> willing to:
>
> Do the ugly, thankless work needed to allow us to load *any*
> commonly-available variant of the ispell hash formats, instead
> of just one.
>
> For some hints on the work required to do so, see:
>
> http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-dev/01/April/1030.html
> http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-dev/01/March/0769.html
>
> To date, we haven't found any volunteers who are both brave enough and
> talented enough to tackle this, but I'm still hopeful that we will. :-)
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