Hi, 2009/8/28 F Wolff <frie...@translate.org.za>: > Hallo László > > I quickly reviewed the Afrikaans, and it seems mostly usable. I would > have to confirm one small aspect of the spelling rules (there is one > class that they don't specify very clearly to me at least), but it seems > that the current implementation for Afrikaans could already be correct > for integers. > > The handling of fractions is problematic, though. You will see that > anything more than two decimal places results in no output. (the same > happens for Dutch and Thai).
It is easily changeable. > > I am interested if you can point me to the code for Afrikaans, and any > references or people involved up to this point. Load af_ZA module in the IDE: http://numbertext.org/Soros.html The selected Africaans orthography is based on the following book by Bruce C. Donaldson: A grammar of Africaans, MOUTON DE GRUYTER, 1993 (Google Books: http://books.google.hu/books?id=ftzioRvJzTUC&pg=RA1-PA420&lpg=RA1-PA420&dq=Africaans+numerals&source=bl&ots=PdhBh9pSp7&sig=9edsNzZQC02Mgt6dfwsgRrihWA0&hl=hu&ei=KfaYStjlGY-enQOuqbHhBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5#v=onepage&q=&f=false) > > Out of curiosity: for which applications would this spreadsheet function > be important? Number names have traditional usage in formal documents (invoices, contracts etc.). There is modern usage in text-to-speech systems (telebanking, ATMs and other devices for visually impaired people etc.). See also the competitive analysis in http://numbertext.org/numbertext.pdf. I hope, the Office Open XML compatibility (BAHTTEXT conversion to ODF using MONEYTEXT) is also not in the l'art pour l'art category. By the way, one of the first issue of OpenOffice.org bug tracker is about this topic: http://lingucomponent.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3702. Thanks for your review. Best regards, László > > Keep well > Friedel > > -- > Recently on my blog: > http://translate.org.za/blogs/friedel/en/content/support-afrikaans-google-translate > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lingucomponent.openoffice.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lingucomponent.openoffice.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lingucomponent.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lingucomponent.openoffice.org
