COL, Latin Spell Checker, Latin Spellchecker

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The URL of this page is http://latin.drouizig.org

This project is commonly leaded by Marjorie Burghart (EHESS) who deals with the Latin word base "verba".

New ! For MS Word 2002 to 2007...

Download COL2.2.2 here. It is now possible to select the variant dictionary from a dialogue box (Start menu). Many improvements have been brought to the spell-checking engine too.

With the new COL 2.1.x, it is now possible to choose between different spelling options for Latin words. The way Latin words are written depends indeed on local habits, choices made for a particular project, or the scholar's field of study. For instance, in medieval latin, diphtongues of classical Latin (æ, œ) are replaced with a simple « e », but sometimes they are rendered by two distinct letters (« ae », « oe »). Likewise, some conventions impose to keep the letters j and v, whereas others impose to transcribe them as, respectively, i and u.

Since version 2.1, an hyphenator suggests how to cut the words at the end of the lines.

Mandatory: it is important that you set/create a personnel dictionary dedicated for Latin. Use the MS Word interface to do so. Here is a snapshot of a good configuration. You may also find useful to read the forum here.

You will have to run setLa2K.exe if you like to use this new version under MS Office 2000.

• May you have any question, please contact us at: drouizig@drouizig.org (important, put [COL2.x] in your message subject).
• You can use this file as a test to get in touch with the spell checker, or another one here.
• The WebEx demo:

  To watch a demonstration about how to setup the spell checker under Microsoft Office,

  • Download and install WebEx Recorder and Player here (light and free of charge).
  • Download the demonstration file (XP + Office 2003 French) here , double-click on it to launch the demo.

 

Download the latest release...

• COL Version 2.2.2 - Fixed problem with words that include several uppercases (ex. LatinA).
• COL Version 2.2.1 - Fixed problem with first uppercase on some words (ex. Latina).
• COL Version 2.2 - Latest stable version.
• COL Version 2.1.6 - Fixed little problem with the hyphenator and installation problem under Office 2000.
• COL Version 2.1.5 - Fixed issue with option loading under Windows Vista.
• COL Version 2.1.4 - Speed up dictionary load again and bug fixing.
• COL Version 2.1.3 - Speed up dictionary load.
• COL Version 2.1.2 - Fixed issue when used simultaneously with other spell checkers (problem was there since version 2.0).
• COL Version 2.1.1 - Fixed potential crash with the personnel dictionary (problem was there since version 2.0).
• COL Version 2.1 - Added first version of hyphenator.
• COL Version 2.0.1 - Added ability to filter accented vowels.
• COL Version 2.0 - 12 variant dictionaries supported.

For OpenOffice.org 2.0.x or +

• Please first install OpenOffice.org 2.x.
• Thanks to our initiative, the latin/Vatican locale (la_VA) will be included by default from version 2.0.3.

• Download the latin dictionary here (and uncompress it in C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org 2.0\share\dict\ooo\).
• Edit dictionary.lst and add the latin dictionary.

• May you have any question, please contact us at: drouizig@drouizig.org (important, put [Latin spellchecker] in your message subject).

For AbiWord 2.x under Windows

• Download .hash and .aff files here