Warty spell checking

Matt Zimmerman mdz at canonical.com
Sat Sep 25 14:46:38 CDT 2004


On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 09:06:48PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote:

> On the desktop warty currently has the following applications using
> spell checking features:
> 
> - OpenOffice	(myspell)
> - Evolution	(gnome-spell -> aspell)
> - Mozilla	(myspell)
> - Abiword	(gnome-spell -> aspell)

Good, so at least there are only two systems to support in the desktop.

> To add english spell checking support for warty
> 
> - add from unstable (not yet in warty/universe):
>   - aspell-en

This is already in main, and included in desktop.

>   - openoffice.org-dictionaries

This was supposed to be moved into main, but there seems to have been a
problem with it.  James is investigating.

I've added all of the non-English binaries from oo.o-dictionaries to
SupportedSeed for now.

> - add to the desktop:
>   - aspell-en

Already there.

>   - myspell-en-gb
>   - myspell-en-us
>   - openoffice.org-hyphenation-en-gb
>   - openoffice.org-hyphenation-en-us

Hmm...raising the question of which English we should support by default, or
both.

>   - ibritish
>   - iamerican

I don't think that anything in desktop uses ispell for spell checking except
mutt, so I think we can safely omit the ispell dictionaries.  Mutt users
will know what to do.

> To add German spell checking support:
> 
> - add to the desktop:
>   - aspell-de
>   - myspell-de-de
>   - openoffice.org-hyphenation-de
>   - ingerman
> 
> To be continued for other languages ...
> 
> Spellchecking support for more than one language makes sense even without
> having the language support for this language, so maybe spellcheck support
> for the big languages in woody could be added.

How much space (both on the CD and in the desktop install) would be required
for each language where dictionaries, etc. are available?

Thanks for putting together this report.

-- 
 - mdz




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