THANKS

Many thanks to the following contributors and supporters:

Mehmet Akin
Göran Andersson
Lars Aronsson
Ruud Baars
Bartkó Zoltán
Mathias Bauer
Bencsáth Boldizsár
Bíró Árpád
Ingo H. de Boer
Simon Brouwer
Jeppe Bundsgaard
Ginn Chen
Tomáš Chvátal
Aaron Digulla
Dmitri Gabinski
Dvornik László
David Einstein
Rene Engelhard
Frederik Fouvry
Flemming Frandsen
Serge Gautherie
Marek Gleń
Gavins at OOo
Gefferth András
Godó Ferenc
Goldman Eleonóra
Steinar H. Gunderson
Halácsy Péter
Chris Halls
Khaled Hosny
Izsók András
Björn Jacke
Mike Tian-Jian Jiang
Dafydd Jones
Ryan Jones
Jean-Christophe Helary
Kevin Hendricks
Martin Hollmichel
Pavel Janík
John Winters
Mohamed Kebdani
Kelemen Gábor
Shewangizaw Gulilat
Kéménczy Kálmán
Dan Kenigsberg
Pham Ngoc Khanh
Khiraly László
Koblinger Egmont
Kornai András
Tor Lillqvist
Christian Lohmaier
Robert Longson
Marot at SF dot net
Mark McClain
Caolan McNamara
Michael Meeks
Moheb Mekhaiel
Laurie Mercer
Ladislav Michnovič
Ellis Miller
Giuseppe Modugno
János Mohácsi
Bram Moolenaar
Daniel Naber
Nagy Viktor
John Nisly
Noll János
S Page
Christophe Paris
Malcolm Parsons
Sylvain Paschein
Volkov Peter
Bryan Petty
Harri Pitkänen
Davide Prina
Kevin F. Quinn
Erdal Ronahi
Olivier Ronez
Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
Sarlós Tamás
Thobias Schlemmer
Jan Seeger
Jose da Silva
Paulo Ney de Souza
Roland Smith
Munzir Taha
Timeless at bemail dot org
Tímár András
Tonal at OOo
Török László
Trón Viktor 
Gianluca Turconi
Ryan VanderMeulen
Varga Dániel
Elio Voci
Miha Vrhovnik
Martijn Wargers
Michel Weimerskirch
Brett Wilson
Friedel Wolff
Daniel Yacob
Gábor Zahemszky
Taha Zerrouki 
and others (see also MySpell authors bellow)

FSF.hu Foundation
http://www.fsf.hu

LibreOffice community
http://www.libreoffice.org

MOKK Research Centre
Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Sociology and Communications Department
http://www.mokk.bme.hu

Hungarian Ministry of Informatics and Telecommunications

IMEDIA Kft.
http://www.imedia.hu

OpenOffice.org community
http://www.openoffice.org

OpenTaal Foundation, Netherlands and
Dutch Language Union (Nederlandse Taalunie)
http://opentaal.org

UHU-Linux Kft.

Thanks,

Németh László
nemeth at numbertext org

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MySpell Developer Credits:

Special credit and thanks go to ispell's creator Geoff Kuenning.  
Ispell affix compression code was used as the basis for the 
affix code used in MySpell. Specifically Geoff's use of a 
conds[] array that makes it easy to check if the conditions 
required for a particular affix are present was very 
ingenious! Kudos to Geoff.  Very nicely done.  
BTW: ispell is available under a BSD style license 
from Geoff Kuennings ispell website:
http://www.cs.ucla.edu/ficus-members/geoff/ispell.html 


Kevin Hendricks <kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca> is the original 
author and now maintainer of the MySpell codebase.  Recent 
additions include ngram support, and related character maps 
to help improve and create suggestions for very poorly 
spelled words. 

Please send any and all contributions or improvements
to him or to dev@lingucomponent.openoffice.org.


David Einstein (Deinst@world.std.com) developed an almost
complete rewrite of MySpell for use by the Mozilla project.
David and I are now working on parallel development tracks 
to help our respective projects (Mozilla and OpenOffice.org) 
and we will maintain full affix file and dictionary file 
compatibility and work on merging our versions of MySpell 
back into a single tree. David has been a significant help 
in improving MySpell.


Németh László <nemethl@gyorsposta.hu> is the author of 
the Hungarian dictionary and he developed and contributed
extensive changes to MySpell including ... 
  * code to support compound words in MySpell
  * fixed numerous problems with encoding case conversion tables. 
  * designed/developed replacement tables to improve suggestions
  * changed affix file parsing to trees to greatly speed loading
  * removed the need for malloc/free pairs in suffix_check which
      speeds up spell checking in suffix rich languages by 20%

Davide Prina <davideprina@uahoo.com>, Giuseppe Modugno 
<gppe.modugno@libero.it>, Gianluca Turconi <luctur@comeg.it> 
all from the it_IT OpenOffice.org team performed an 
extremely  detailed code review of MySpell and generated
fixes for bugs, leaks, and speedup improvements. 

Simon Brouwer <simon.oo.o@xs4all.nl> for fixes and enhancements
that have greatly improved MySpell auggestions
  * n-gram suggestions for an initcap word have an init. cap. 
  * fix for too many n-gram suggestions from specialized dictionary,
  * fix for long suggestions rather than close ones in case of 
      dictionaries with many compound words (kompuuter)
  * optionally disabling split-word suggestions (controlled 
      by NOSPLITSUGS line in affix file)


Special Thanks to all others who have either contributed ideas or
testing for MySpell


Thanks,

Kevin Hendricks
kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca