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Posted to dev@openoffice.apache.org by Maria Hartmann <ma...@hotmail.de> on 2014/09/05 14:02:33 UTC

Desciption of the spell checker engine of OpenOffice

Hi, 

I am looking for a description of the Hunspell engine or rather about how hunspell is implemented in OpenOffice. 
I am writing my bachelor thesis, wrote a spell checker for a swiss dialect and have to write 30 pages about the language and the program. So I thought it would be good to describe how hunspell works because the files I wrote for the spell checker have no funtionality by there own. Right?
Is anybody here who knows something about a description?

Best regards, 
Maria

RE: Desciption of the spell checker engine of OpenOffice

Posted by Maria Hartmann <ma...@hotmail.de>.
Hey Andrea, 

thank you for the links, I already found and got enough stuff to write an overview. 

Regards,
Maria

> Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2014 18:18:32 +0200
> From: pescetti@apache.org
> To: dev@openoffice.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Desciption of the spell checker engine of OpenOffice
> 
> On 05/09/2014 Maria Hartmann wrote:
> > describe how hunspell works because the files I wrote for the
> > spell checker have no funtionality by there own. Right?
> 
> Well, no. Hunspell files are useful in themselves too. Hunspell can be 
> used both as a stand-alone command-line tool or as a library. OpenOffice 
> embeds Hunspell and can thus use your .dic and .aff files for spell 
> checking, but those same files can be used in entirely different 
> programs (e.g., Thunderbird) to the same purpose.
> 
> > Is anybody
> > here who knows something about a description?
> 
> You fill find rather comprehensive information about Hunspell (including 
> file format) in PDF files at
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/hunspell/files/Hunspell/Documentation/
> 
> The code used by OpenOffice to interface with Hunspell is here:
> http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/openoffice/trunk/main/lingucomponent/source/spellcheck/spell/
> 
> and the OpenOffice customizations to hunspell are here:
> http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/openoffice/trunk/ext_libraries/hunspell/
> 
> Regards,
>    Andrea.
> 
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Re: Desciption of the spell checker engine of OpenOffice

Posted by Andrea Pescetti <pe...@apache.org>.
On 05/09/2014 Maria Hartmann wrote:
> describe how hunspell works because the files I wrote for the
> spell checker have no funtionality by there own. Right?

Well, no. Hunspell files are useful in themselves too. Hunspell can be 
used both as a stand-alone command-line tool or as a library. OpenOffice 
embeds Hunspell and can thus use your .dic and .aff files for spell 
checking, but those same files can be used in entirely different 
programs (e.g., Thunderbird) to the same purpose.

> Is anybody
> here who knows something about a description?

You fill find rather comprehensive information about Hunspell (including 
file format) in PDF files at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/hunspell/files/Hunspell/Documentation/

The code used by OpenOffice to interface with Hunspell is here:
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/openoffice/trunk/main/lingucomponent/source/spellcheck/spell/

and the OpenOffice customizations to hunspell are here:
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/openoffice/trunk/ext_libraries/hunspell/

Regards,
   Andrea.

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