Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 58828
new thesaurus not robust
Last modified: 2017-05-20 11:31:12 UTC
The new thesaurus is nowhere near as robust as the thesaurus in OOwriter 1.1.0. As a creative writer, who is often searching for “just the right wordâ€, this is a major downgrade. Some examples are: major (110 suggestions in rev. 1.1.0 and only 6 in rev. 2.0), downgrade (101 in 1.1.0 and only 1 in 2.0), example (54 in 1.1.0 and 4 in 2.0). The robust thesaurus in Open Office was always one of the big advantages it had over Microsoft Word, for me. That advantage is now gone. Please bring back the robust thesaurus. Until it improves I will have to go back to 1.1.0 for any serious writing. Thank you. jon
Reassigned to SBA.
SBA: Confirmed with OOo 2.04. Reassigned to nemeth.
The new thesaurus supports WordNet (http://wordnet.princeton.edu/) categories. It's possible to use the old thesaurus in OpenOffice.org, if we will convert the old one to OpenOffice.org 2.0 format. Daniel: What do you think, could we convert the old thesaurus (where is its source, for example?), or could we make a "robust" (similarly redundant) dictionary from WordNet for creative writers? Thanks. Laci
Laci: I don't know about the source, it might be needed to check out the old files from cvs and access them using the API (one file is binary, one is not, i.e. using the plain text as input for the API accesses). Using WordNet for a "more robust" -- I'd call it less precise -- thesaurus might be feasible, but I'm not sure. If at all, an English native speaker would need to do that.
Daniel: Thanks. Conversion is simpler. I'd like to convert it with the Hungarian thesaurus next month.
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