Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Introduction about me

Hi Tim,
   I would surely try and produce a dictionary of my own. Thanks for the zip
files :)

On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 7:07 PM, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions <
webmaster@krackedpress.com> wrote:

> Actually, the dictionary list did not have en_GB there when we started,
> since the OOo dictionary list did not have one.  I found it only a few weeks
> ago and added it to the NA dictionary list.
>
> I just checked.  OOo's list still does not have en_GB, but they have:
> ----------------
> 1] Engligh                         Chemistry Dictionary
> 2] English                          English dictionaries with fixed dash
> handling and new ligature and phonetic suggestion support
> 3] English (Australian)        English Australian Dictionary
> 4] English (Canadian)         Canadian English Spell Checking, Hyphenation
> and Thesaurus
> 5] English (New Zealand)    English New Zealand Dictionary
> 6] English (South African)   South African English spell checking
> dictionary
> 7] English (US)                  US English Spell Checking Dictionary
>
> ------------------------------**------------------------------**
> --------------------------
>
> NA has:
> ---------
>
> 1 ] English (Australian)           English Australian Dictionary
> 2 ]                                       Australian-medical-dict---en-**
> au-med____2008-07-01
> 3 ] English (Canadian)           Canadian English Spell Checking,
> Hyphenation and Thesaurus
> 4*] English (Great Britain)      English-British en-GB-oed 2005-06-13
> 5 ] English (New Zealand)      English New Zealand Dictionary
> 6 ] English (South African)     South African English spell checking
> dictionary
> 7 ] English (US)                    US English Spell Checking Dictionary
> 8*]                                       US English with a .dic file dated
> April 19 2011
> 9*]                                       English-US-Medical-**
> openmedspel____April-22-2008
>                                                             Chemistry
> Dictionary  over 105,000 words
>
> 10] Multi localized version Australian, Canadian, Great Britain, New
> Zealand, US
>     English dictionaries with fixed dash handling and new  ligature and
> phonetic suggestion support -- 2010-02-15 thru 2010-03-09
>     contains words from the following dictionaries, etc.:
>               en_AU, en_CA, en_GB, en_US, en_ZA, hyphen_GB, hyphen_US,
> thesaurus_GB/US
>
> * - not found on the OOo dictionary list.
>
> ------------------------------**------------------------------**
> -------------------
>
> I would like to show the date of the dictionary .dic file with the
> dictionary information showing which one is the most up-to-date.  The
> default English dictionary files[s] is several years old.  I found a .dic
> file from this year so I created a updated one that could be used.
>
> English (Great Britain)      English-British en-GB-oed 2005-06-13
>
> This en_GB dictionary has it's .dic file [i.e. word list] dated for June
> 2005.  There must be a word list out there that is more up-to-date.  I did
> find an unabridge dictionary word list that has about 213,550 words in it. I
> have not looked at it to see if they made sure the words that "must" begin
> with a capital letter is capitalized.  I also have word lists with common
> sir names and a few that have only male and female names in them.  I have
> one that has Bible words and another one with movie character names, actor's
> names, etc., etc..
>
> It would be nice to produce our own dictionaries with word lists that are
> not currently covered.  I wonder how many people would want one that has
> words, and maybe names, that are in the Christian Bible?  Many of those
> words are not part of the modern English language, since the most common
> versions of the Bible has language used before 1600, I believe.  It would be
> mice to have a word list that is for other Science areas instead of just
> Chemistry.  I know that there was a person looking for Science related
> dictionaries, a few months ago.  Besides Chemistry and Medical ones, Latin
> was the only other one that could be Science based, or used in Science.
>
> I do have a US English names .oxt file that was produced a few years ago.
>  It was dated October 2008, but "common" names do not change much or many
> new ones.  Of course, my last name is not in the list, or any of the common
> variations of it.  Maybe it is just Great Britain origin, not ones that have
> [other?] European origins.
>
>
>
>
> On 06/17/2011 04:16 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
>
> > Hi :)
> > Don't be sorry about finding it.  I was just about to look for it but you
> > saved
> > me the couple of clicks it would have taken.  I use it without really
> > thinking
> > about where i got it from
> > Thanks and regards from
> > Tom :)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ______________________________**__
> > From: Rajesh Sankar R<rajesh301190@gmail.com>
> > To: marketing@global.libreoffice.**org <marketing@global.libreoffice.org>
> > Sent: Thu, 16 June, 2011 18:02:31
> > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Introduction about me
> >
> > I am sorry I did find a English(UK) dictionary.
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 9:57 PM, Rajesh Sankar R<rajesh301190@gmail.com>*
> > *wrote:
> >
> >  Hi Tim,
> > >    I did have a look at the DVD contents. The dictionary contains almost
> > > all the major languages in India. I guess it must be enough. I would like
> > > to
> > > receive the archive containing the CSS and images. I would also like to
> > > confirm with you if I can create an unique DVD book art, and CD art. Here
> > > in
> > > India we use English(UK), I would like to know if there is a dictionary
> > > on
> > > English(UK).
> > >
> > >
> > >  <snip>
>
>
> > >  You might want to look at the dictionary list we have.  The large list,
> > > > below the small one, has as many dictionaries I could find.  Since there
> > > > are
> > > > many languages and dialects in India, I hope there are a few in this
> > > > list
> > > > that would be helpful for the students of your college.  As far as I
> > > > have
> > > > been told, or read, there are ways to create simple dictionaries from
> > > > word
> > > > lists.  So if you need a dictionary for a language/dialect, all you need
> > > > to
> > > > start is a large enough word list.  There should be enough documentation
> > > > online, somewhere, to give you the information to go from that point.
> > > >
> > > > http://libreoffice-na.us/**English/extensions.html#dict<http://libreoffice-na.us/English/extensions.html#dict>
> > > >
> > > > Let me/us know what you think.
> > > >
> > > > Tim Lungstrom
> > > > webmaster, and lead DVD editor for the North American Community DVD
> > > > Project
> > > > dedicated to Canadian, US American, Mexican, Latin American users [north
> > > > to south].
>
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