<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Dan,</div><div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jun 7, 2022 at 11:18 PM Dan Kenigsberg <<a href="mailto:danken@cs.technion.ac.il">danken@cs.technion.ac.il</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Wed, Jun 01, 2022 at 06:47:41AM +0300, Gabor Szabo wrote:<br>
> Hi,<br>
> <br>
> I've been working on an online Ladino (Judeo-Espanyol) dictionary<br>
> <a href="https://diksionaryo.szabgab.com/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://diksionaryo.szabgab.com/</a> The code is open source the content is<br>
> CC BY-SA 4.0 <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/</a><br>
> All linked from the About page.<br>
> Along with the creation of the translation I also have a (growing) list of<br>
> ladino words.<br>
> <br>
> I would like to make this available as a spell checker in various Open<br>
> Source tools.<br>
> E.g. Firefox, Chromium, LibreOffice etc.<br>
> I wrote about it a few weeks ago<br>
> <a href="https://szabgab.com/add-spellchecker-to-various-applications.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://szabgab.com/add-spellchecker-to-various-applications.html</a> but I am<br>
> still unclear what and how to do.<br>
> <br>
> I started to generate a pair of files that resemble the format of hspell,<br>
> but I don't know how to really test them and in any case they don't seem to<br>
> work well.<br>
> I also don't know how to distribute what I already have and how to make it<br>
> included in those projects.<br>
> <br>
> Anyone here has experience with spell-checkers?<br>
> Could anyone help me in the project or at least point me in the right<br>
> direction?<br>
<br>
Well, if I were you, I'd start by creating a github repository with your<br>
code and a tagged version of your artifacts, these .aff and .dic files<br>
used by hunspell.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>It is being generated now on every push:<br></div><div><a href="https://github.com/szabgab/ladino-diksionaryo-generated/">https://github.com/szabgab/ladino-diksionaryo-generated/</a></div><div><br></div><div>I can put on some tags if you think they are important for some reason, but I don't have specific release points.</div><div>Every change in the dictionary triggers the re-build of the whole web site and the two files as well.</div><div><br></div><div></div><div> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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This would let anyone with high-enough motivation the ability to test it<br>
on their own machine (I may volunteer).<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I'd really like to know how do you (or some else) test it.<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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Next, I'm afraid, comes specialized packaging for different environments.<br>
In hspell I added Makefile targets for hunspell-he.rpm and for Mozilla<br>
xpi. The former is good enough for most application on<br>
Fedora/CentOS/RHEL. Then you could propose the rpm to Fedora;<br>
or the xpi to Mozilla; or hope that someone else does it for you for<br>
OSes and applications you are not familiar with.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Thanks, I'll look into that.<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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It's a long process, but when it works it's quite satisfying.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I am sure. The whole direction creation project will take a long time, but if I can show more value coming out</div><div>from the project (e.g. a spell checker in FF or Chrome) that might motivate more people to help out.</div><div><br></div><div></div><div>BTW do you, or anyone else on the list have other suggestions which OS projects might be worth targeting</div><div>to include the Ladino spell-checker or dictionary?<br></div><div><br></div><div>regards</div><div> Gabor</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div></div></div>