Warty spell checking

Matthias Klose m at klose.in-berlin.de
Sat Sep 25 15:49:31 CDT 2004


On Sat, 2004-09-25 at 12:46 -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> 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.

forgot Gaim (libgtkspell -> aspell)

> > - 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?

		Installed kBytes	Package (bytes)
aspell-de	12868			5246328		  (arch any)
myspell-de-de	 1176			 362032		  (arch all)
myspell-de-at	   68			   8512		  (arch all)
myspell-de-ch	 1260			 364768		  (arch all)
openoffice.org-hyphenation-de
		  104			  23634		  (arch all)


aspell-fr	23032			9367076		  (arch any)
myspell-fr	  612			 159082		  (arch all)
openoffice.org-hyphenation-it
		   64			   3930		  (arch all)


looks like myspell support could be an option.

	Matthias






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