Re: chenxiajian_abiword & enchant

From: Kathiravelu Pradeeban <kk.pradeeban_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu Jun 23 2011 - 16:37:02 CEST

On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 8:00 PM, Dominic Lachowicz
<domlachowicz@gmail.com> wrote:
> What's the reason to install them all? It sounds like a maintenance
> nightmare. You'd have to install & configure other dependencies (like
> Aspell or HSpell), some don't work at all on Windows (AppleSpell,
> Voikko, ...).
>
> Also, we have ~30 Ispell dictionaries available to download from SourceForge.
>
> Keep It Simple, Silly.

+1 Dom.

And Chen, is there any reason why are you interested in them, when
what we support already is pretty much enough, as I feel?

Regards,
Pradeeban.

>
> On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 10:26 AM, Kathiravelu Pradeeban
> <kk.pradeeban@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 2011/6/23 chenxiajian1985 <chenxiajian1985@gmail.com>:
>>> Hi all.
>>> I have one question to ask. someone who can help me?
>>>
>>> we all know that Enchant has eight types of backend to support multi-language.
>>> USpell
>>> HSpell
>>> ASpell
>>> MySpell....
>>>
>>> but I found that in Abiword. we only use two backends: libenchant_ispell.dll  libenchant_myspell.dll
>>>
>>> another surprising thing is that in the dictionary\ispell I can only find one dic: american.hash(En_US)
>>> and the hunspell dic is empty~~
>>>
>>> why abiword support so little from enchant?
>>
>> May be because, development efforts for Enchant from the AbiWord
>> mainstream contributors was limited to have all of them tested and
>> supported (?).
>> Feel free to implement whatever you feel is missing that needs to be there.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Pradeeban.
>>>
>>> thanks
>>>
>>> chen xiajian
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Kathiravelu Pradeeban.
>> Software Engineer.
>> WSO2 Inc.
>>
>> Blog: [Llovizna] http://kkpradeeban.blogspot.com/
>>
>
>
>
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-- 
Kathiravelu Pradeeban.
Software Engineer.
WSO2 Inc.
Blog: [Llovizna] http://kkpradeeban.blogspot.com/
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