OpenOffice.org Portoguese Spellchecker, Music Notation, Schulz’s interview: OpenOffice.org links, 11-01-2009
The First Word Processor to Spell Correctly in Portuguesa – Tne new orthographic agreement for Portuguese speaking countries went into effect on the 1st of January, luckily the Brazilian OpenOffice.org community was there to help.
OOoLilyPond : Using music notation in OpenOffice.org – OOoLilyPond simplifies the integration of music notation in OpenOffice.org Writer, Impress and Draw. It needs some time to get familiar with the LilyPond language. Try it.
Interview with Non-Sun OpenOffice.org Contributor, Charles-H. Schulz – Interesting interview, even if what Charles says about third parties’ contributions is inaccurate. As a matter of fact it has been a nightmare to find a way to get included the Italian dictionary and thesaurus. Simon Phipps did his best to help us, but it wasn’t enough to make it a reality, though.
Roberto Galoppini and 
Simon Phipps 3:07 pm on January 13, 2009 Permalink
I looked into the state of the Italian dictionary and thesaurus. The last comment on http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=65039 says:
“with the release of 3.0 the dictionaries comes as a separate package
(extensions) which can be installed and de-installed independently. This kind of aggregation of GPLd dictionaries is now established process. Dictionaries can be bundled with OOo if the extension package as a whole has been committed to the source code repository (module dictionaries).”
Apparently what this means is that if the Italian OO.o community were to update and submit the dictionary/thesaurus as an extension to the repository, it would be bundled. Happy to make contacts etc if you send me e-mail.
Roberto Galoppini 5:23 pm on January 13, 2009 Permalink
Hi Simon,
we had to wait a new architecture to get that answer, while you spent your time and effort to make clear within your legal department months before. In spite of your good will, having efficient and effective conversations with Sun on OpenOffice.org issues is still difficult.