meeting_2007-03-06

Meeting with Polderland 6.3.2007

Participants:

  • Peter Beinema
  • Sjur Moshagen

Agenda

  • Since last time
  • Possible issues
  • Next meeting
  • Todo items for the next meeting

Since last time

Polderland:

  • test software sent, does not recognise UTF8 -> investigating
  • lexicon issue: "WI" words ignored under certain circumstances. This is on purpose: used to be regarded as somewhat "lesser" word class. investigating impact of changing this.
    • Divvun is presently pregenerating the closed POSes including clitics, which means we do not need the clitics for the W entries
    • but PLD is interested in finding out what led to this way of handling data

Divvun:

  • compilation of lexicons working fine, using the tailored mklex tools
  • speller compilation integrated in the make process
  • speller test tools tested, found missing Unicode/UTF-8 support
  • working on adding derivations to the PLX dataset

Possible issues

Updating installer packages

We (ie Divvun) can now easily compile our own speller lexicons - thanks for the tools: -)

But we also need to place that speller lexicon file over the old one within the installation packages. For that I assume we need the original installation package script (or whatever it is called), and for Win we also - I assume - need the software used to create the installer? (the corresponding software is included on the Mac, as part of the developer tools).

The tools used:

  • Windows: InstallShield + small executable asking for the language to install
  • Mac: Apple Installer tool

Default phonetic rules

Can these be updated to allow hyphenation, or should Divvun add them? Divvun don't know what the default rules are: -)

Polderland will send the default rules, to be "hyphenated".

Next meeting

Next Tuesday (13.3.) at the usual time.

TODO:

  • send "default" phonetic rules (PLD)
  • discuss: how to include new lexicons in installer (PLD)
  • check: installer on Mac should be able to:
    • move existing proofing tools out of the way (into a zip archive?)
    • restore "original" proofing tools on deinstallation
      • yes, but some residues remain after de-installation.
      • solution probably requires admin rights - will document
  • check if Sami-codes are included in Office 2008 / Mac (PLD)
    • appears not to be the case in last Beta (nov 2006)
      • not yet, see answer from MS above
  • get language codes to work with Mac Office 2004
    • seems very unlikely given the MS answer
  • check language codes in Mac Office 2008 (when beta arrives with codes) (Polderland)
  • try to find proper compiler version for Adobe Indesign (old version will probably do) (Polderland)
  • send speller lexicon (or CVS tag) for the beta release to Polderland ( Sjur)