Polish Spell Check

[Latarnik]

There was one for Office 97, Office 2001 for Mac and could be used for
2004. Why the hell does Microsoft ignores Polish language in Office
2008? Polish is understood by more than 100 million people ! Not all
of them in Poland.
Macintoshes are being used for typesetting for most publishing houses
printing in Polish. They have to do it cross-platform; write, OCR and
spell check on PC and print in inDesign on Mac. What a waste!
Microsoft has some antiPolish deviation which is probably result of
Jewish, German and Russian Lobby. Prove to me that it is not!
Send me Polish Spell Check and Grammar for Polish Language and I will
take my words back. If you are not capable to write it, I will direct
you to somebody who could. They did it for Quark.

 

[Clive Huggan]

Well, I hope you feel better after that venting, Latarnik! Really. ;-)

The regulars here would probably agree with you that omission of Polish is a
rough deal, now you have mentioned it. But we are simply Microsoft customers
who use Word and like to send small kindnesses around the world, in a
voluntary capacity, by helping people to use Word better. Microsoft
employees hardly ever visit this newsgroup, and we are not Microsoft
employees.

So, you are venting in the wrong place. Especially if you want support for
conspiracy theories. I think all of us are catatonically indifferent to them
-- except for our longstanding, in-house conspiracy theorist, Phillip.

I suggest you send your comment to *Microsoft* via the Help menu. Someone in
the Mac Business Unit sees, logs and distributes the feedback. Make sure you
include your last 2 lines; I imagine they will warm to that suggestion.

Cheers,

Clive Huggan
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[John McGhie]

Hi Latarnik:

Your conspiracy rant left out the only threat or inducement that had a
chance of working!! Try offering "money".

If you pay for it, you will have Polish tomorrow. If you won't pay for it,
you won't get it

Just to explain: For every release, Microsoft reconsiders which languages
will be offered. They decide this by assessing the sales of Apple Macs in
each country of the world.

As soon as the sales of Mac computers in Polish-speaking countries reach the
level they have in France, Microsoft will include Polish in Mac Office.
Until the sales get that high, they won't.

Microsoft is not anti-polish, but they are pro-profit. It's a corporation,
not a charity

Cheers

There was one for Office 97, Office 2001 for Mac and could be used for
2004. Why the hell does Microsoft ignores Polish language in Office
2008? Polish is understood by more than 100 million people ! Not all
of them in Poland.
Macintoshes are being used for typesetting for most publishing houses
printing in Polish. They have to do it cross-platform; write, OCR and
spell check on PC and print in inDesign on Mac. What a waste!
Microsoft has some antiPolish deviation which is probably result of
Jewish, German and Russian Lobby. Prove to me that it is not!
Send me Polish Spell Check and Grammar for Polish Language and I will
take my words back. If you are not capable to write it, I will direct
you to somebody who could. They did it for Quark.

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[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

Why the hell does Microsoft ignores Polish language in Office
2008?

Because they calculated that it might not be profitable enough to invest
time and resources in developing one for the new version of Office.

I looked around and didn't see third party tools you could use.
SpellCatcher is nice and supports a good set of languages, but
unfortunately not Polish.

You couldd get the Excalibur dictionaries, and use them at your
advantage though:
- create a new spelling dictionary for Polish in the Word Preferences.
- use the command there to edit it
- copy all the words in the Excalibr polish Dictionary (you can google
it) and paste them in your new custom spelling dictionary.

Not perfect, but it will bring some support for spell-checking.

Corentin

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

You couldd get the Excalibur dictionaries, and use them at your
advantage though:

I just double-checked and Excalibur doesn't seem to come with a Polish
dictionary :_\

The other option is aSpell. It is a bit tedious to work with though.
It is a command line application. You need to download aspell, compile
and install it so that you can use the prezip command and expand the
polish diactionary into a flat file that can be edited (and from which
you could copy the words for the Word custom dictionary).

If it's out of your league, let me know by e-mail (remove NoSPam from my
address) and I'll help you out,


Corentin

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

If it's out of your league, let me know by e-mail (remove NoSPam from my
address) and I'll help you out,

FYI, the dictionary contains over 241,000 words.....
You might even have to split the custom dictionary in more than one file


Corentin

 

[Latarnik]

Poor Microsoft, that word (Translated into colloquial Polish means
(ma³y i do tego miêkki = small and also soft) is waiting until people
in Poland and whenever else will buy virtually useless to them
computer (Macintosh without Polish Spell Check) which costs almost
twice as much as Linux or Widoze machine), waiting for Microsoft to
figure out whether to order Polish Spell Check, which costs only
several thousand dollars. Sure it is better to eliminate APPLE all
together and give employment for Widoze programmers, sales people and
technicians hunting for viruses 24/7. Recently in Canada in Vancouver
BC, network of the School Board was paralysed by hacker kid who
plugged USB key and infected thousands of computers with a Trojan
which self-replicated itself immediately and for few days experts who
came from US, could not fix it. There are several other School
Districts operating on Linux and Macintosh platforms without the
single breakdown. If this is not conspiracy and unfair business
practice why several Courts in US and Europe termed Microsoft to be a
criminal organization? Patents stolen from Apple (concept of Windows,
use of mouse, laser printer and other technologies), forced Microsoft
to sign Technology Exchange Agreement and pay many billions of dollars
to Apple, Sun and other companies. I know that it is an USENET network
and users reading that are not responsible for Microsoft, but I hope
that occasionally somebody from it reads our rants and changes from
arrogance to serving customers. See what happened to arrogant
companies, ENRON, LEHMAN or in Canada NORTEL, they are going under
sending their Executives to jail. Their competition wins hands down.
Get smart Redmond, before it's too late. I am just a single end user,
but there are cities and possibly countries which have a law
prohibiting to use taxpayers money to buy Microsoft products. Polish
Spell Check is just a tip of the iceberg, contrary to the global
warming swindlers -- Ice Age is coming, just look outside!
Marq

it On Jan 13, 9:07 am, (e-mail address removed) (Corentin Cras-

FYI, the dictionary contains over 241,000 words.....
You might even have to split the custom dictionary in more than one file


Corentin

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[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

Poor Microsoft, that word (Translated into colloquial Polish means
(ma?y i do tego mi?kki = small and also soft) is waiting until people
in Poland and whenever else will buy virtually useless to them
computer (Macintosh without Polish Spell Check) which costs almost
twice as much as Linux or Widoze machine),

Well MS doesn't post here. It's a peer support group so you might be
better of telling them all tht using the Send Feedback command in the
Help menu of any of the Office applications.

Now on my previous post I mentioned a workaround for this issue.
I even took it on myself to compile ASpell, convert the Polish
dictionary to a flat file and put it all in a .dic dictionary for Word.

Not that hard (when you know your was around the CLI just a bit).

As I told you, send me an e-mail if you want it.

Corentin