Friday, September 12, 2008

Version 3.0.0 of the Australian English dictionary for OpenOffice.org 3 beta and 2.4 available.

Hi,

After a considerable amount of work, I'm pleased to say the latest version of the Australian English dictionary files for OpenOffice.org 3.x beta and OpenOffice.org 2.4 are now available .

The dictionary has been completely built from scratch. The new version is more localised for Australians and comes in at over 160,000 words, compared with my old version of 119,000.

A very pleasing part has been to include the names of people contributing in the dictionary. If you've contributed recently, don't be concerned if your name is not in the dictionary files. I had to freeze the files a few weeks ago and your name will be in the next minor release. Thank you for contributing and I hope you feel proud when you know you name is now correct in the spellcheck.

The dictionary is now copyright so you know your contribution goes towards building better spellcheck dictionaries for Australians. It also means things are a lot clearer for developers wanting to use the dictionary files.

I hope everyone finds the new dictionaries even better and if you find any omissions or errors, please let me know.

- Kelvin Eldridge

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