2010/11/2 Nadav Har'El <n...@math.technion.ac.il> > Recently I noticed that (thanks to Lior Kaplan, it seems) it is now trivial > to get Hebrew spellchecking (based on Hspell 1.1) in OpenOffice. > The Hebrew localized version (now available on the official OpenOffice > site!) > comes with Hebrew spell-checking pre-bundled, and there's an extension [1] > for those who use the English version of open-office. >
My pleasure (: It's available only as the 3.3 RC releases, and will be available on the final release. http://download.openoffice.org/all_rc.html The first issue is acronyms (rashei tevot) and abbreviations. In Hebrew, > these use the geresh and gershaim (or single or double quotes), which is > part of the word. OpenOffice does not understand that these quotes are part > of the Hebrew word, and splits the word on them. As a result all acronyms > are > marked as spelling mistakes. This is really annoying, especially for > certain > types of documents where acronyms are common. > Known issue, and reported at http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=99796 It is marked for work during the 3.4 release. > The second issue is the correction suggestions for spelling errors. All > the suggestions indeed appear to be valid words, but their order is > terrible - it appears little or no attention was paid to trying to provide > the most likely suggestions first. The screenshot on the extension page [1] > provides an excellent example: When given the mis-spelling עיברי, rather > than > provide the most likely suggestion first - עברי, it is given as the 8th > suggestion, and the first suggestions are highly unlikely. > [..] > I believe that hunspell's dictionary in fact has a way to give such > correction > rules, but I don't know how to correctly write them, or how to make > OpenOffice > use them. > The word list in the extension is created with myspell's format. Hunspell should be similar but I couldn't build that format at the time. The builds were done as part of the debian hspell package which I maintain.
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