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List:       aspell-user
Subject:    Re: [Aspell-user] Using openOffice dictionary
From:       Stephen Harris <stephen.p.harris () sbcglobal ! net>
Date:       2006-06-05 20:54:19
Message-ID: 448499FB.2030306 () sbcglobal ! net
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Alexandre Rodrigues wrote:
> 
> 
> 2006/5/30, Kevin Atkinson <kevina@gnu.org <mailto:kevina@gnu.org>>:
> 
>     On Tue, 30 May 2006, Alexandre Rodrigues wrote:
> 
>      > Is it possible to use openOffice´s dictonary with aspell 0.60?
> 
>     Not directly.  However, with a little work Aspell can use OO
>     dictionaries
>     that are designed for use with MySpell engine.  If they are designed for
>     the newer Hunspell engine than they are not compatible. 
> 
>  
> i have cintacted the mantainer of OO dictionary and he answered me that 
> it´s designed for myspell
>  
> 
>      > Since the portuguese dictionary for aspell is very poor and
>     openOffice´s has
>      > 1.100.000 words that i would like to use. 
> 
>  
> 1.400.000 now
> 

That is a lot of words. The Oxford English Dictionary has 300,000
words and about 636,000 entries contained in twenty volumes. When
I read this I thought you might have meant the download size in mb.
I think the English dict. has the largest download size, around 4mb.

Good luck,
Stephen



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