Harri Pitkänen wrote: > On Monday 01 October 2007, Mathias Bauer wrote: >> So are you planning to ask for replacing hunspell as OOo spell checker >> by your new spell checker? > > No, our plan is to continue doing what we already do: ship > openoffice.org-voikko as an extension that provides spell checker and > hyphenator (+ hopefully grammar checker in the future) for Finnish. > > The underlying linguistic software we use (malaga) is unnecessarily low-level > tool for most languages. Developing dictionaries with it is generally much > harder than with hunspell. But we need some of the additional power that > comes with it to handle the very peculiar word compounding rules for Finnish. > I am not sure if any of the languages that currently use Hunspell would > benefit from this. > > Other reason is that I am the only person in our development team who has > signed the OOo JCA. And there are many contributors. So there is practically > no chance of getting the code integrated to upstream OOo.
OK, but having this as an extension is great. We developed the extension infrastructure for various reasons, one being the wish to allow for contributions outside of the OOo codebase. It's always great to see that people use it. > But Soikko (the actual spell checker) has been unmaintained for about five > years now, and our free Voikko has now reached its level in terms of quality. > The hyphenator it offers is already better. Hopefully I managed to clarify > things a bit :-) Yes, thank you. Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other mails sent to it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
