From koffice  Mon Jan 15 20:33:05 2001
From: Thomas Zander <Thomas () planescape ! com>
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:33:05 +0000
To: koffice
Subject: Re: Spellchecker
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On Monday 15 January 2001 15:51, Johan Nel wrote:

> I see you use ISpell for KDE products. I am not familiar with the it. Where
> can I get more info about it? Can we compile our own Main Dictionaries or
> at least develop our own s/w to hand shake with ISpell for Spell Checking
> and Thesaurus functions?

Ispell is a free program, its very old (1971) and has been around for free 
for a long time. In that time a lot of dictionairies have been written, 
including a south African one.

Take a good look at the the usage restrictions, you can't for profit use/sell 
the product or derived work.

Main page of ispell is:
 http://fmg-www.cs.ucla.edu/geoff/ispell.html

Please contect the author for more info.
-- 
Thomas