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Date:      Fri, 9 Aug 2002 01:31:12 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Martin Blapp <mb@imp.ch>
To:        <openoffice@freebsd.org>
Cc:        <portsmgr@freebsd.org>
Subject:   What do people think about spelling dicts ports and packages for OO.org ?
Message-ID:  <20020809011533.M58571-100000@levais.imp.ch>

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Hi all,

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

etc etc ?

Thank you very much for your opinion !

Martin

Martin Blapp, <mb@imp.ch> <mbr@FreeBSD.org>
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