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Predelnik / DSpellCheck

Notepad++ Spell-checking Plug-in
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What was the source of the wordlists distributed with Notepad++ or this plug-in? #209

Closed Gitoffthelawn closed 4 years ago

Gitoffthelawn commented 4 years ago

A few years ago, I think either Notepad++ or this plug-in included wordlists (dictionaries) with the distributions.

From what I can tell, that is no longer the case.

I have a hunspell wordlist in Notepad++ that I think was included with either Notepad++ or this plug-in. I'm trying to determine the source of this list and how it was created.

My guess is that is that it was created using http://app.aspell.net/create

But when I use that site to create an updated wordlist, I can't generate anything that is close to what I already have. If I use a SCOWL size of 60, the generated list is much smaller than my current list, and if I use a SCOWL size of 70, the generated list is much larger.

Do you know the source of those wordlists that were distributed with Notepad++ or this plug-in and how they were created?

Predelnik commented 4 years ago

Hello, sorry for late reply.

Well I don't know for 100% but they probably were from FTP which is linked in Download Dictionaries in plugin (ftp://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/software/openoffice/contrib/dictionaries/)

Basically they should be LibreOffice dictionaries of some old version, currently you can download newer versions from LibreOffice github using plugin.

Gitoffthelawn commented 4 years ago

Thank you for your reply. No problem that it took a little time.

I wonder how OpenOffice created their dictionary. Any ideas?

From what I can tell, LibreOffice now uses Aspell with a SCOWL size of 60, which is a rather weak dictionary.

I'm looking for, or to generate, a dictionary similar to the one that was distributed with this plugin (or Notepad++), but updated to contain new common words and corrections.

Predelnik commented 4 years ago

My current source of up-to-date dictionaries is the following: https://github.com/LibreOffice/dictionaries

But I have no idea how exactly they are made, neither I know what SCOWL means, I guess you'd better ask contributors to LibreOffice.

Gitoffthelawn commented 4 years ago

Thank you for the link!