Hi, First, I am happy, that you have made a much better Swedish dictionary with Hunspell's compound handling. I plan to implement a new feature in Hunspell to handle triple consonants in special Swedish and Norwegian compounding (also with hyphenation).
The main problem is that we have no ``core'' developers for Lingucomponent with CWS and Issue Tracker access. Especially not official builds (like Swedish?) have lack of maintenance. I will update the English dictionaries next month, and I hope I will be able to add Swedish dictionary, too. But it would be much better if the maintainer of the Swedish build or you could do it. Now I added the dictionary to the Dictionary Wiki page: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Dictionaries#Swedish_.28Sweden.29 With a little effort, you can make a pack file (see the last Swedish Pack file), too. DicOOo maintainers can publish the pack file online, simply write a letter to Laurent Godard or Daniel Naber. Regards, Laci Quoting Lars Aronsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > This concerns mostly the QA and distribution chain, but it has > implications for the linguistic components as well. As designers > of spell checkers and other language tools, we need to see the > whole environment in which they operate. > > In December a new Swedish dictionary was produced and ready for > inclusion in OOo. After much waiting, possibly misunderstandings, > and reminders, it has now been scheduled (by "mh" [1]) for > inclusion in OOo 2.3. There are no licensing problems. The only > problem is that the previous Swedish dictionary (from 2003, > actually very close to the Swedish ispell dictionary from 1997) is > very poor, so the update is much needed. In the timespan from > December both version 2.1 and 2.2 of OOo have been missed. > > Can we now be sure that 2.3 will come out with the new dictionary? > Can something go wrong, that delays this improvement further? > > How can we improve this release process so that future updates of > the dictionary is handled faster? > > Is there still a chance to have the new dictionary included > already in version 2.2? > > For users of operating systems with automatic updates (e.g. Ubuntu > Linux), is there any way that OOo can give priority to such > updates? Right now I have no idea how the OOo-Ubuntu connection > works. My own standard Ubuntu installation still offers OOo 2.0.4 > and I have no clue when they are going to offer 2.1. > > When I'm lost in the dark without information, I take pleasure in > conspiracy theories. This time I added a note to the bugzilla > that Sun Sweden has an interest in delaying the improvement of > OpenOffice. This is of course mere speculation, for which I have > no proof. It is however a fact that they market StarOffice in > Swedish with the argument [2] that it has a professional grade > spell checker, which OpenOffice so far hasn't had. And it is a > fact that this issue [1] was finally pushed forward only after my > mentioning of Scott McNealy's name. (That's a useful name.) > > [1] http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=62268 > [2] http://se.sun.com/press/feature_stories/2005/051004/sida2.html > > In the future, I think we need to push out new dictionaries more > often, e.g. including new names from politics, news and media. If > there is going to be a 3 month delay for every update, perhaps the > spell checker should be redesigned so that it doesn't only rely on > the dictionary in the distribution, but also checks a live server > for today's updates. Such updates could even be built as a > subscription service. It might also become important that other > softwares (e.g. the Firefox browser) use the same spell checker > and that they use a common spell checking daemon on the local > computer. > > The above should also apply to thesauri and grammar checkers. > > > -- > Lars Aronsson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
