Re: [Libreoffice] Comments on RC1 spell checking

What about mac and windows users? Is Hunspell available for them as well?

On 12/8/10 10:34 AM, Caolán McNamara wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 09:20 +0000, Michael Meeks wrote:
> > On Tue, 2010-12-07 at 14:33 +0100, Jonathan Aquilina wrote:
> > > Marc you mentioned a lack of a spell checker. what bout on any OS using
> > > another dictionary like Aspell or something of the sort?
> >         Right - a properly formed bug report for this in the bug tracker with
> > details of language etc. would be much appreciated.
> Using system spell checking dictionaries where available is probably
> orthogonal to the original problem (whatever exactly it was, it seems to
> not be reproducible right ?), but on this specific topic. LibreOffice
> uses hunspell and typically now hunspell dicts are available in fairly
> standard locations in linux distros. We have support to use system
> dictionaries, we should (for the devel version) tweak our defaults to
> enable these out-of-the-box under Linux, i.e. fallback in order of
>
> - user dictionary extensions
> - shared dictionary extensions
> - system dictionaries in /usr/share/hunspell
> - system dictionaries in /usr/share/myspell
>
> C.
>
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