Northern Sámi Hunspell dictionary ============================== This package contains all the required files to add support for the language Northern Sámi to the hunspell spell checker which is currently used in OpenOffice.org2 and as an ispell clone. The hunspell dictionary is part of the Divvun project to create Sámi proofing tools - see www.divvun.no for more info. Content ------- Version Requirements Installation Known issues Feedback Version ======= 1.0beta1 THIS IS BETA SOFTWARE - USE ACCORDINGLY The latest version can always be found here: http://www.divvun.no/static_files/hunspell-se.tar.gz Requirements ============ This dictionary is tested with hunspell 1.1.9 and above. Support for the Sámi languages in OpenOffice.org was added in OOo 2.4, and then only as a paragraph language. It is not yet possible to set one of the Sámi languages as the default document language, although we are working on it. Support for Sámi as default document language will be added to a future OOo version. Installation ============ On Linux ------ As an administrator user make install This will install the speller files in the appropriate places, and add support for Northern Sámi. Hunspell and enchant based spellers are then able to use it. This includes OpenOffice.org, version 2.4 and above and KDE4. Known issues ============ - speed: The generated lexicon file is almost 50 Mb. It is quite comprehensive, but it makes Hunspell slow. We don't know what we can do to speed it up, but we will discuss the issue with the Hunspell developers. - suggestions: The present version does not contain *any* adjustments to the suggestion mechanism, it is using the "raw" hunspell algorithm as is. This leads to less than stellar - or very often NO - suggestions. This is an area where the MS spellers for Sámi are much better (one can compare the performance of the two speller engines on our speller test bench pages, check www.divvun.no). We hope to improve this later, but tuning the suggestions very often has a negative effect on speed - which is already not very good. Feedback ======== Send any feedback to divvun@samediggi.no