Re: [A12n-Collab] Personal spell-check dictionaries for African lang's?

["Andrew Cunningham" <andrewc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In a similar vein, does anyone know of a good set up instructions on
creating spell checkers for Firefox and OpenOffice?

Andrew

On Thu, March 20, 2008 11:48 am, Don Osborn wrote:
> Rui
Correia forwarded the appended items re someone's development of a
> personal spellcheck dictionary for the Tetum language of East
Timor. It
> got
> me to wondering how many similar
individual efforts there may be for
> African
> languages,
but that have not been publicized. It would be quite useful to
>
know about such work and whether it could be put into the public
domain.
> 
> TIA for any thoughts, pointers, or
contacts.
> 
> Don Osborn
> Bisharat.net
>
> 
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message
----------
>
From: Alex Tilman
<alextilman@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 18 Mar 2008 13:57
>
Subject: Tetum spell checker for MS Word
> To:
east-timor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> 
> Here is a
Tetum spell checker for MS Word which I built and used on my PC
> 
(it's a Mac). It's no rocket science or computer hackery. It's just a
> simple
>  wordlist saved as a text (.txt) file. I have been
using this dictionary
> on
>  my computer for a number of
years and I have added new words to it in the
>  process. At the
moment there are over 7300 entries in this list. The
>  dictionary
has been very helpful for me when I write in Tetum. It
> 
particularly enables me to write Tetum with consistency (spelling).
> 
>  For this file and its instructions, please go to
> 
http://baneebe.blogspot.com/2008/03/tetum-spell-checker-for-ms-word.html
> or
>  http://baneebe.blogspot.com/
> 
> 
Cheers.
> 
> 
>  Alex Tilman
>  Dili,
Timor-Leste
> 
> 
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>
EARLIER EMAIL
> ________________
> 
>
<http://www.geocities.com/dicionariotetum1907/index.htm>http://www.geocities
> .com/dicionariotetum1907/index.htm
> 
>
http://www.geocities.com/dicionario2tetum1907/index.htm (mirror site)
> 
> Dear Friends,
> 
> I have put up a
dictionary of Tetum-Portuguese published in 1907 on the
> www. The
documents are in PDF and are divided into groups of 2 to 8 pages
>
with an average size of about 500KB. To view it please follow the links
> above.
> 
> Alex.
> 
>
******************
> 
> Caros amigos,
> 
>
O dicionario teto-português produzido pelo Raphael das Dores e
publicado
> em
> 1907 já se pode acessar no www. O
documento de formato PDF está divido em
> grupos de 2 a 8
páginas e com tamanho médio de 500KB. Para ver o
>
documento,
> siga o link em cima.
> 
> Alex.
> 
> *****************
> 
> Maluk sira,
> 
> Disionário tetum-portugés Raphael das
Dores nian, ne'ebé nia publika iha
> tinan 1907, bele haree
ona iha www. Dokumentu ne'e iha formatu PDF nian.
> Ha'u fahe tiha
dokumentu ne'e iha grupu entre tahan 2 to'o tahan 8. Grupu
> sira
ne'e iha medida média 500KB. Atu haree dokumentu ne'e bele tuir
link
> iha leten ne'e.
> 
> Alex.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Andrew Cunningham
Research and Development
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Vicnet
State Library of Victoria
Australia

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