Re: Hebrew spell-checking in OpenOffice

[Lior Kaplan]

On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Lior Kaplan  wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Nadav Har'El wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Nov 02, 2010, Lior Kaplan wrote about "Re: Hebrew spell-checking
>> in OpenOffice":
>> > I've double checked this, and Debian doesn't include a tool needed for
>> > building the hunspell target. See
>> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=602189
>>
>> I see :(
>>
>> However, if we're talking about the OpenOffice package, not the debian
>> package, you're not really constrained by what is available on Debian.
>>
>>
> I'm constrained as I work (and package) on Debian. But I'll take the
> dictionary files from the Fedora RPM. I'll update you when a new extension
> will be ready and we'll test it.
>
>
New version is available. Dictionary taken from Fedora (hunspell format with
fastverb).

http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/project/dict-he

 Kaplan
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Re: Hebrew spell-checking in OpenOffice

[Dotan Cohen]

> 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.
>

I filed this bug somewhere, but I cannot find it. While looking for it
I found this other bug that might interest you, though:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=169403

If I find the hspell bug I'll post back.

-- 
Dotan Cohen

http://gibberish.co.il
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