Re: [libreoffice-l10n] New Language Dictionary/Spelling/AutoCorrect

Hello Rimas

Thanks for answering

> It seems there is (or at least
> has been) a project on SourceForge to create such dictionaries for
> Guarani: http://sourceforge.net/projects/guarani/. You may try
> contacting the people behind that project to see if they have produced
> anything of use. Even if not, perhaps they would be interested in
> restarting.
I checked the link and it seems that it was a project that never started.
I have found this two links. I downloaded the zips and open them and it 
looks like a spell checker. But I am not quite sure what it is.

http://crubadan.org/ws/gug.html
and
http://crubadan.org/ws/gn.html

> Autocorrect is a third type of dictionary, which is also different than
> the other two. I think creating this dictionary might be the easiest
> task of the three: I have written a basic online tool in PHP which could
> help you crowdsource suggestions for autocorrect. At least that's what
> it does for me.
How can I create this?

-Gio


On 29/05/15 17:18, Rimas Kudelis wrote:
> Hi Giovanni,
>
>
> 2015.05.29 19:24, Giovanni Caligaris wrote:
> > I would like to have a Guarani dictionary/spelling/autocorrect in the
> > future. I was wondering how to do it. Is it different for every OS
> > (linux/win/mac)? Is it a Pootle project?
> No, these are different projects, which have nothing to do with Pootle.
>
> LibreOffice, just like a bunch of software, uses Hunspell and/or MySpell
> (http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/) dictionaries for spell checking. This
> is regardless of the operating system in use. Making a spellcheck
> dictionary is quite a big task by itself. It seems there is (or at least
> has been) a project on SourceForge to create such dictionaries for
> Guarani: http://sourceforge.net/projects/guarani/. You may try
> contacting the people behind that project to see if they have produced
> anything of use. Even if not, perhaps they would be interested in
> restarting.
>
> If there is a spellchecker dictionary available for Guarani, with an
> acceptable license, it might be possible to convert its files into
> MySpell/HunSpell and use them.
>
>
> Hyphenation dictionaries are another thing: they use a different format
> and different data than the spellchecker dictionaries. I know for a fact
> that TeX hyphenation dictionaries might be converted to a format
> suitable for LibO, but perhaps it's not the only possible conversion. If
> there is nothing to convert, such dictionary would have to be done from
> scratch.
>
> By the way, hyphenation dictionaries can also be used in other projects
> (e.g. OpenOffice, Mozilla)
>
>
> Autocorrect is a third type of dictionary, which is also different than
> the other two. I think creating this dictionary might be the easiest
> task of the three: I have written a basic online tool in PHP which could
> help you crowdsource suggestions for autocorrect. At least that's what
> it does for me.
>
> Hope this helps. Sorry for not posting any links. I hope someone better
> familiar with our wiki can post pointers to further relevant information.
>
> Regards,
> Rimas


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