Spellchecker plugins for LibreOffice

Version: 0.4-beta.1

Last updated: 2020/08/26

Authors:

• Annette Rios, e-mail: rios at cl.uzh.ch
• Richard Castro, e-mail: rcastro at hinant.in

Compatibility

The plugins are developed and tested on a Ubuntu Linux system. The source code should be reasonably portable to win 32 and Mac OSX.

Compiling OXT Plugin

1. (Optional) Download LibreOffice SDK from https://www.libreoffice.org/, we do not provide the sdk as part of our project as it may be subject to changes over time.

   $ sudo apt-get install alien dpkg-dev debhelper build-essential
   
   $ sudo alien packagename.rpm
   
   $ sudo dpkg -i packagename.deb

2. Install ant and zip:

   $ sudo apt-get -u install ant
   
   $ sudo apt-get install zip

3. Go to the qhichwa folder

   $ cd qhichwa

4. Run the following commands:

   $ chmod +x compile.sh
   
   $ ./compile.sh -xcjo

5. If everything went well a qhichwav%.%%.oxt should appear.

Installing the plugin

Prerequisites

• At least 4GB of RAM memory
• LibreOffice 4.3 (x86)
• Oracle Java 7 (x86, you need the 32bit version even if you have a 64bit machine)

Acknowledgement

This research was funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation under grant 100015_132219/1.