COL - Correcteur Orthographique de Latin - Correttore Ortografico di Latino - Corrector Ortográfico de Latín - Latin Spell Checker - Latin Spellchecker

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

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Or may you have any question, please contact us at: drouizig@drouizig.org
(important, please put [COL 2.x] in your message subject).

This project is commonly led by:

• Philippe BASCIANO-LE GALL (An DROUIZIG), development engineer.  
• Marjorie BURGHART (EHESS), research engineer, deals with the Latin word base "verba".

New ! For Microsoft Word 2010 (ßeta).

  

• Download COL 2010 (ßeta2) here.

• Version history...

  • COL 2010 Version ßeta2 - Fixed problem with first uppercase on some words (ex. Latina) followed by -que enclytic.
  • COL 2010 Version ßeta - Support of Microsoft Office 2010.

For Microsoft Word 2002 to 2007...

• Download COL2.6 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.
• Since version COL 2.1.x, it is 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. See the corresponding dialogue box above.

• 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 user 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. The WebEx demonstrations also show how to setup the user dictionary.
• You will have to run setLa2K.exe if you like to use this new version under Microsoft 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 , then double-click on it to launch the demo.
  • Download the demonstration file (Vista + Office 2007 French) here, then double-click on it to launch the demo.
  • Download the demonstration file (Vista + Office 2010 French) here, then double-click on it to launch the demo.

 

Download the latest release...

• COL Version 2.6 - Latest stable version. Handled -ve enclytic.
• COL Version 2.5.2 - Fixed problem with first uppercase on some words (ex. Latina) followed by -que enclytic.
• COL Version 2.5.1 - Improved speed of program.
• COL Version 2.5.0 - Handled -ne enclytic.
• COL Version 2.4.2 - Prevent potential crash and file corruption provoked by misformatted user dictionaries.
• COL Version 2.4.1 - Fixed problem with words containing uppercase(s) followed by -que enclytic.
• COL Version 2.4 - Improved support of medieval Latin variations.
• COL Version 2.3.2 - Fixed second problem with user dictionary under Word 2007, accept Arabic and Roman numerals (from I to MMMCMXCIX).
• COL Version 2.3.1 - Fixed problem with user dictionary under Word 2007.
• COL Version 2.3 - Added ability to filter accented vowels (acute accents).
• 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 user 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.x

• Please first install OpenOffice.org 2.x.
• Thanks to our initiative, the latin/Vatican locale (la_VA) has been 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 OpenOffice.org 3.0

• With the help of Angelo Pagan, you can download the latin dictionary dict_lam (or dict_la if you need the convention used in juridical texts: no i/j distinction and no use of œ and æ ligatures). 

For NeoOffice 3.0

• Download the file dic-la.zip (thanks to Jay Barillaro).

For AbiWord 2.x under Windows

• Download .hash and .aff files here