Re: OpenOffice 2.0/ StarOffice 8.0

[Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com>]

--- Mohammed Sameer <msameer at foolab dot org> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 05:44:23PM +0200, Ammar Ali wrote:
> > One critical missing feature is Arabic spell-check and
> > grammar check. I know these are not exactly perfect in MS 
> > Office, but they exist and many people depend on them to
> > a certain extent. Many have sited these missing feature
> > as reasons not to make the switch to OO2.0.
> 
> I don't really understand how we are thiking.
> We have an incomplete Arabic spell checker, No one
> volunteered to help.  No one is welling to take over the 
> project.

To circumvent the needless rants and flames, why not double-up
on Duali and get it into a usable state targeting OOo.  Once
that is complete we should look into getting it integrated into
aspell.  If license is an issue with duali I see no problem us
switching it over to (L)GPL as had been noted a rather long time
ago.

In the not too distant past I had suggested we gang-up on one
project to get our collective juices flowing, I'm extending
that idea to not only include arabbix (Mr. Rahal are you ready
for that just yet ??) but to also consider Duali (our spell-
checker) [1].  I'm not sure what state Duali is in, but that shouldn't be too
difficult to ascertain plus we do have some
access to its original author what we'll need is some linguistic
assistance to make sure we've covered all the bases and that the
approach is proper, etc and some help from the OOo's team for
integration (but something tells me that shouldn't be an issue
at all).

Thoughts ?

[1] http://www.arabeyes.org/project.php?proj=Duali

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 - Nadim



		
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