jimclatfelter | Re: Hunspell LFN spelling dictionary files uploaded

The Windows version of TEA has Aspell only as the spellchecker engine. I don't see a Hunspell option.

Jim

--- In LinguaFrancaNova@yahoogroups.com, "cadmium136" <novateacher@...> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>    I've uploaded two files to the files area (in the "Lingua Franca Nova
> " folder).  The files are:
>
>     * lfn.aff
> <http://f1.grp.yahoofs.com/v1/wOY3TvsCr6n16jkjjloO_zNbZnFe7xvyQSIBVULw2J\
> 5cemTHF8MjqerwjKkbsn65f9lTnk2USnw5pytU5IMSywZfL6pQraG3PcpG8VqN9FgCFLc/Li\
> ngua%20Franca%20Nova/lfn.aff>
>     * lfn.dic
> <http://f1.grp.yahoofs.com/v1/wOY3TlRHJ7n16jkjICoFcpB6Zu_A28jpB0owsNdZdv\
> SdY-_7iirTXr_BOB0uT3ltTzqAocJIOlNjNfG-u92dSMUrc6K__0Qd33XQfq-SFAPccoQ/Li\
> ngua%20Franca%20Nova/lfn.dic>
> These are Hunspell spelling dictionary files
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunspell
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunspell> ) and can be used by other
> software to spell check your documents.
> I use Ubuntu (a linux distribution), and I guess a lot of you use
> Windows, so I tried to find a cross-platform text editor that can use
> these files.  I found one I believe, called TEA at
> http://tea-editor.sourceforge.net/ <http://tea-editor.sourceforge.net/>
> . I notice there's a Windows version (if you use it please post if it
> works OK with my files).  To setup TEA to use the files, first download
> the two dictionary files somewhere and then in TEA click on the "tune"
> tab on the right side of the TEA window (you start out on the "edit"
> tab).  Then select the "functions" tab at the top and you'll see the
> edit box to select "Hunspell dictionaries directory".  You can then
> press the "select" button at the right to navigate to the folder with
> the two files in it.Once you've done that, go back to the "edit" tab,
> create a new file (hit the page icon at the top) and then paste in some
> LFN.  To spell check it, you have to go to the "Functions" menu at the
> top, and then select "Spell-checker languages" in the menu, and you
> should see "lfn" as an option.  Click it, and any misspelled words in
> the document will be underlined in red.  Unfortunately the editor
> doesn't automatically spell check as you type (hopefully this will be
> done in a future version) so when you want to update the spell checking
> go back to the Functions menu, and select "Spell check".  There's also a
> "Suggest" option if you want spelling suggestions for the word where the
> cursor is.
> Caveat: I'm using TEA version 28.1.1 but the latest version is 30.0.0 so
> let us know if you notice any differences from my instructions above.
> Caveat 2: The dictionary files were generated from the online LFN
> dictionary, together with the affix file which has some rules about how
> to add suffixes (e.g. making nouns plurals, altering the verbs to have
> -da and -nte).  This is a first attempt so if you notice words missing,
> please let me know and I'll improve the files and reupload them.
> Also if you can find any other text editors that work with Hunspell
> files (and also Enchant spell checkers, as it is just a front-end to
> Hunspell and other spelling systems) please let us know!  If you
> happened to look at the Wikipedia Hunspell page then you'll see there's
> wide support for the files, however my investigations revealed that it's
> difficult to incorporate these files (e.g. LibreOffice has an internal
> list of allowed languages and LFN isn't one of them, so the LibreOffice
> source code would have to be altered).  That's why I chose TEA as it's
> more flexible when it comes to spelling files.
> I hope this helps you when writing posts to this group, as it's easy to
> spell the words wrong (especially for those whose mother language is a
> Romance language or those who've studied a Romance language).
> Cheers,cadmium
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