Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 19:24:56 -0500 From: Will Andrews <will@csociety.org> To: Martin Blapp <mb@imp.ch> Cc: openoffice@freebsd.org, portsmgr@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What do people think about spelling dicts ports and packages for OO.org ? Message-ID: <20020809002456.GG78857@squall.waterspout.com> In-Reply-To: <20020809011533.M58571-100000@levais.imp.ch> References: <20020809011533.M58571-100000@levais.imp.ch>
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On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 01:31:12AM +0200, Martin Blapp wrote: > OpenOffice.org does support spelling check and hyphenation dictionaries for > many languages. > > It's not possible to include them at build time anymore, since OO.org does > require that they are the same copyright. > > To make the installation for the user as easy as possible, I'd like to > make for each language a port. But this would mean another masterport > with 20 slave ports. > > Size of the dicts is about 512K - 5MB, depending on the language. > > The format of the OpenOffice dicts is not the same as the one of Ispell. > To convert a Ispell dict, you will have to convert it, which can last > several hours as described on OO.org website. They call the format "Myspell". > > Also possible would be a big spelling dicts port/package -> ~20MB with all > dicts included. That would mean for the user that he has many unneccessary > data on his disk, and that the port would change frequently. > > I'm not absolutly sure what I should do. Both things have down/upside. > > The port(s) should do the following: > > - Install the data > - Register the spelling dicts in dictionary.lst > - Make necessary cross registering for hyphenation dictionaries > - Unregister properly if deinstalled > - Delete the installed data > > I've already prepared the masterport and like to have some answers > before people beat me for spamming the cvs repo ! > > I also need a name for the dicts. What about > > - ports/editors/ooo-dicts > - ports/editors/ooo-dicts-en_US > - ports/french/ooo-dicts-fr_FR I have no problem with any of this. Regards, -- wca To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-openoffice" in the body of the message
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