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Originally Posted by BetterRed
@Doitsu - do you know of any utilities to add words to an existing hunspell dictionary. I've looked around a couple of times, all I've ever found were instructions on how to do it manually, which isn't exactly suited to occasional use.
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AFAIK, there are only low-level utilities. For example, KevinH already mentioned
munch and unmuch. However, they're not intended for end-users. Moreover the
hunspell file format documentation appears to have been written with professional programmers in mind and is therefore not very accessible to non-programmers.
The best and easiest solution for end-users is to add words to a custom word list.
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Originally Posted by BetterRed
@Doitsu - my enquiry re a utility still stands.
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IMHO, such a single-use utility would be overkill. The fact that there's no standalone GUI Editor for OpenOffice/LibreOffice Hunspell dictionaries, also seems to indicate that the majority of end-users are quite happy with the default dictionaries, even though some of them are actually somewhat buggy as KevinH found out.
While we're at the topic, there is one relatively safe
AFF file hack for getting better suggestions for OCRed text, but I definitely wouldn't recommend any other changes to Hunspell dictionaries.