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svn commit: r1566303 - in /openoffice/ooo-site/trunk/content/lingucomponent:
dictionary.html download_dictionary.html
Author: pescetti
Date: Sun Feb 9 15:53:16 2014
New Revision: 1566303
URL: http://svn.apache.org/r1566303
Log:
#i124057# Update old and misleading page about contributing dictionaries.
Modified:
openoffice/ooo-site/trunk/content/lingucomponent/dictionary.html
openoffice/ooo-site/trunk/content/lingucomponent/download_dictionary.html
Modified: openoffice/ooo-site/trunk/content/lingucomponent/dictionary.html
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/openoffice/ooo-site/trunk/content/lingucomponent/dictionary.html?rev=1566303&r1=1566302&r2=1566303&view=diff
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--- openoffice/ooo-site/trunk/content/lingucomponent/dictionary.html (original)
+++ openoffice/ooo-site/trunk/content/lingucomponent/dictionary.html Sun Feb 9 15:53:16 2014
@@ -7,10 +7,7 @@
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<!--Project mailing lists, project news, are all taken care of now by SourceCast's top navbar. You do not need to add a table for them.-->
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- <h2>Lingucomponent Sub-Project:<br />Spell Checking and Dictionaries </h2>
-
- <p>One of the goals of the Lingucomponent project is to develop dictionaries and affix files to
- support spell checking in different languages.</p>
+ <h2>Spell Checking and Dictionaries </h2>
<h4>Dictionaries/Affix files Now Available</h4>
@@ -28,17 +25,17 @@
<p><b>1.</b> Find an Ispell dictionary and affix file (both have to be
modified to work). See <a href="http://fmg-www.cs.ucla.edu/geoff/ispell-dictionaries.html">
- http://fmg-www.cs.ucla.edu/geoff/ispell-dictionaries.html</a> for a good starting point.</p>
+ http://fmg-www.cs.ucla.edu/geoff/ispell-dictionaries.html</a> for a good starting point.
+ Hunspell files will work with no modifications.</p>
<p><b>2.</b> Contact the author of the wordlist to make sure licenses
- are compatible. A BSD or LGPL license is compatible. If the license is
- not compatible you may want to ask the author for permission to use the
- wordlist and affix file under a special non-GPL license given that
- OpenOffice.org is LGPL, is free, is open source, etc. Remember to retain
- the original e-mail of the author granting permission, because it will
- be needed in a later step.</p>
+ are clear and compatible. A list of compatible licenses is at
+ <a href="https://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html">the Apache license compatibility page</a>
+ but since you will be packaging an extension
+ <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-117">many free software license are compatible</a>.
+ </p>
- <p><b>3.</b> Convert the affix file and wordlist from the Ispell formats
+ <p><b>3.</b> (Obsolete; only if you use Ispell files) Convert the affix file and wordlist from the Ispell formats
to the formats needed by MySpell/Hunspell. Converting an affix file is time
consuming (several hours) but no programming skills are required and all that
is needed is a simple text editor. The best way to understand
@@ -51,26 +48,29 @@
Hunspell supports MySpell syntax but offers several extensions which you
might need.</p>
- <p><b>4.</b> Download and test your affix file and dictionary using
- <a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=143754">the
- Hunspell stand-alone realease.</a> If you want your files to work with Myspell,
- use a <a href="MySpell-3.zip">standalone copy of MySpell (320KB)</a> which can be compiled
- simply on most platforms (should work fine under Unix, Solaris, Linux,
- etc).</p>
-
- <p><b>5.</b> <a href="https://issues.apache.org/ooo/enter_bug.cgi?product=Internationalization">Create
- an issue</a> (you must be logged in) for the Internationalization project
- asking the developers to include support for spell checking in your locale
- (en_US, en_CA, de_DE, pt_PT, etc) and supply the modified wordlist and
- affix file. You must also include a README.txt file that specifies the
+ <p><b>5.</b> Package an extension following the
+ <a href="https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Extension_Dictionaries">guidelines for dictionary extensions</a>,
+ test it with OpenOffice and publish it to <a href="http://extensions.openoffice.org">the OpenOffice
+ Extensions repository</a>. Should you need help, contact the
+ <a href="http://openoffice.apache.org/mailing-lists.html#localization-mailing-list-public">localization mailing list</a>.
+ You must also include a README.txt file that specifies the
author; original ispell author, if any; the specific language and locale
supported; and the license you are releasing your dictionary under
- (GPL, LGPL, BSD, or other).</p>
+ (GPL, LGPL, BSD, or other).
+ </p>
+
+ <p><b>6.</b> Either contact the
+ <a href="http://openoffice.apache.org/mailing-lists.html#localization-mailing-list-public">localization mailing list</a>
+ or <a href="https://issues.apache.org/ooo/enter_bug.cgi?product=Internationalization">Create
+ an issue</a> (you must be logged in) for the Internationalization project
+ asking the developers to include support for spell checking in your locale
+ (en_US, en_CA, de_DE, pt_PT, etc) and supply the link to the latest release
+ of your extension.</p>
<h4>Once you have reached here: Congrats! You have helped the
OpenOffice effort - Thank You!</h4>
<p> </p>
- Last Modified: $Date: 2006/04/06 20:05:01 $, $Revision: 1.17 $
+ Last Modified: $Date: 2014/02/09 20:05:01 $, $Revision: 1.17 $
</body>
</html>
Modified: openoffice/ooo-site/trunk/content/lingucomponent/download_dictionary.html
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/openoffice/ooo-site/trunk/content/lingucomponent/download_dictionary.html?rev=1566303&r1=1566302&r2=1566303&view=diff
==============================================================================
--- openoffice/ooo-site/trunk/content/lingucomponent/download_dictionary.html (original)
+++ openoffice/ooo-site/trunk/content/lingucomponent/download_dictionary.html Sun Feb 9 15:53:16 2014
@@ -7,19 +7,14 @@
</head>
<body>
<h2 align="center"> Spelling, Hyphenation, and Thesaurus Dictionaries:<br />
- Download / Installation <a href="auto_instal.html">(automated installers)</a></h2>
-
-<hr />
-
-<p>Note: no matter whether you install dictionaries using the wizard or manually -- you need to exit
-OpenOffice.org and the OpenOffice.org Quickstarter after dictionary installation, or your new
-dictionaries will not be recognized!</p>
+ Download / Installation </h2>
<hr />
<p><b>List of Dictionaries for Manual Installation</b></p>
<ul>
+ <li><a href="http://extensions.openoffice.org"><b>Download dictionaries from the Extensions site</b></a></li>
<li><a href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Dictionaries"><b>Dictionaries sorted by language</b></a></li>
<!--
<li><a href="spell_dic.html"><b>Spelling dictionaries</b></a></li>
@@ -29,22 +24,7 @@ dictionaries will not be recognized!</p>
-->
</ul>
-
-<p><b>Dictionary Installers</b></p>
-
-<ul>
- <li><a href="dictpack.html"><b>DicOOo macro: Multi-platform, multi-language, On/Offline</b></a></li>
- <li><a href="auto_instal.html"><b>Automated Installers for Linux and Windows</b></a></li>
- <li><a href="manual_instal.html"><b>Non-automated Installation</b></a></li>
-</ul>
-
-<p><b>Installation Notes</b></p>
-
-<ul>
- <li><a href="instal_reinstal.html"><b>If Spell check, still, is not working</b></a></li>
-</ul>
-
<br />
-Created: 2001 June. Last Modified: $Date: 2009/10/10 11:54:35 $, $Revision: 1.211 $
+Created: 2001 June. Last Modified: $Date: 2014/02/09 11:54:35 $, $Revision: 1.211 $
</body>
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