Re: Using openOffice dictionary

Alexandre Rodrigues wrote:
> 
> 
> 2006/5/30, Kevin Atkinson <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>:
> 
>     On Tue, 30 May 2006, Alexandre Rodrigues wrote:
> 
>      > Is it possible to use openOffice´s dictonary with aspell 0.60?
> 
>     Not directly.  However, with a little work Aspell can use OO
>     dictionaries
>     that are designed for use with MySpell engine.  If they are designed for
>     the newer Hunspell engine than they are not compatible. 
> 
>  
> i have cintacted the mantainer of OO dictionary and he answered me that 
> it´s designed for myspell
>  
> 
>      > Since the portuguese dictionary for aspell is very poor and
>     openOffice´s has
>      > 1.100.000 words that i would like to use. 
> 
>  
> 1.400.000 now
> 

That is a lot of words. The Oxford English Dictionary has 300,000
words and about 636,000 entries contained in twenty volumes. When
I read this I thought you might have meant the download size in mb.
I think the English dict. has the largest download size, around 4mb.

Good luck,
Stephen