Hebrew spell-checking in OpenOffice

[Nadav Har'El]

On Tue, Nov 02, 2010, Lior Kaplan wrote about "Re: Hebrew spell-checking in OpenOffice":
> > 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.

Please let me know if you need help creating a hunspell-format dictionary
from Hspell (it shouldn't be difficult - basically "make hunspell" should
do it).

OpenOffice loads the hunspell-format dictionary (with so-called "double
affix compression") *much* faster than it does the old myspell format,
which fixes the old lockup-for-many-seconds-while-loading-the-hebrew-
dictionary bug (see http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=66939).

So it is actually important that you use the hunspell target, not the
myspell target, in your packages.

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