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Originally Posted by Doitsu
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. |
My 'problem' is that standard dictionaries (including paper ones) tend to be sparse when it comes to knowledge domain specific words. I wasn't envisaging a GUI tool. Instead, I had a question/answer dialogue on a dumb terminal model in mind (a'la Eliza):
"Add <word from list> ?" N (word gets written to discard list)
"Add <next word from list> ?" Y
"A series of questions to create the affix entries" Not the whole enchilada, but a practical subset.
Back when pragmatics trumped perfection, PROFS/DISSOS (or something similar) had a dictionary creator along these lines. Algol springs to mind so it might have on MCP - salad days.
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