Andras, thanks for your reply.

When we initiated the creation of the Esperanto and Afrikaans spelling data we 
were aware of one Esperanto implementation that was not actively maintained.
We am now aware of three Esperanto implementations.
So at this stage I will refrain from submitting a fourth Esperanto 
implementation.

Seeing that Esperanto has regular conjugations, there can be various approaches to the 
creation of the ".aff" conjugation rules.
A common flaw of the Esperanto spellcheck implementations is that they tend to produce 
false positives, especially when the ".aff" rules are complicated.
Maybe some evaluation of the various Esperanto spellcheck implementations is 
needed ...

Could you please help our participation by answering a few questions:
1) What is the "standard" way for an end-user to add/install a spellcheck 
language?
2) (How) Would an "upstream repository" become part of the "standard" install 
for an end-user?
3) What is a reasonable interval between the submission of spellcheck file 
updates?
4) Can these updates be submitted through the mailing list?

Regards
Donald



On 28/03/19 12:04 PM, Andras Timar wrote:
Hi Donald,

On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 9:38 PM Donald <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

    I noticed that there is no spell checker for Esperanto in LO.
    (I use the extension mentioned at:
    https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Language_support_of_LibreOffice).
    It would be good if users could enable Esperanto spell checking in
    the
    same way that one can enable many other language.

    What is the relationship between (Hunspell) spell checkers and
    extensions in the same language?
    Esperanto is not mentioned on the Development/Dictionaries page:
    https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Dictionaries
    or in the linked page:
    https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/dictionaries/tree/

    I can supply a pair of Hunspell files (.aff and .dic) for Esperanto
    based on the Esperanto thesaurus at PuzzleFoundry.com produced in
    collaboration with Kris van der Merwe. The .dic file contains over
    26000
    words.

    How should I proceed?



You are right, there are many more dictionary extensions on various sites, than "internal" dictionaries in LibreOffice source code.

For the internal dictionaries, the situation is different case by case. Sometimes the dictionary has an upstream repository, and maintainer  send patch to LibreOffice or ask a developer to create a patch based on a new release. In other cases the dictionary was committed once and it is unmaintained in LibreOffice.

In case of Esperanto, I see at least two upstream versions on https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Language_support_of_LibreOffice
Did I understand you well, that you would like to submit a 3rd one?

Best regards,
Andras Timar


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Donald


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