It apparently escaped my attention that LibreOffice dropped support for Tiger and Leopard, and hence PowerPC, sometime about six months ago. What, doesn't anyone tell me anything around here!
The current Apache OpenOffice supports Apple OS X version 10.7 (Lion), 10.8 (Mountain Lion), 10.9 (Mavericks), 10.10 (Yosemite), 10.11 (El Capitan) and macOS 10.12 (Sierra), 10.13 (High Sierra), 10.14 (Mojave), 10.15 (Catalina). The last OpenOffice version supporting Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), 10.5 (Leopard), 10.6 (Snow Leopard) is OpenOffice 4.0.1.
Interfaces and ports: AndroidHunspellService (for Android, based on the Chromium fork of Hunspell), Enchant (Generic spelling library from the Abiword project), XSpell (Mac OS X port, but Hunspell is part of the OS X from version 10.6 (Snow Leopard), and now it is enough to place the Hunspell dictionary files into /Library/Spelling or /Library. ← Snow Leopard Unibody MBP Battery Life Test #4: Real-World Usage 2 Memorable Quotes: Who Is The Leader → 10 responses to “ Protecting LibreOffice (or OpenOffice.org) Documents ” RosT September 2, 2011 at 1:35 pm. Third Party Trademark Legal Notice: Mac, iMac, Macbook, OSX, Yosemite, Mavericks, Mountain Lion, Lion, Snow Leopard, Leopard, Tiger are trademarks of Apple Inc. If you have a 2004 or earlier version of Microsoft Office or are using AppleWorks and want to move beyond OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, LibreOffice is a good way to move forward without investing in a newer copy of Microsoft Office. If you’ve been using OpenOffice or NeoOffice (Mac only), LibreOffice gives you a free up-to-date replacement.
Anyway, Tiger users can always dual boot Linux for new versions, but here's the good news. Someone stepped in and started a PowerPC port of LibreOffice for Leopard. That's right, Leopard users can download the latest version at OSU Open Source Labs. It appears the maintainer is very active and knowledgeable, having sent patches upstream, and he even uploaded screenshots for the eyes of the non-believers.The last official release that supports Tiger is at the LibreOffice archives.
Meanwhile, I've been taking TenFourFox 29 beta out for a spin. It hasn't suffered from the bug from hell that has affected Firefox 29 on PowerPC Linux. I'm sure everyone involved would appreciate your contribution if you have any knowledge to lend. But back to TenFourFox, the new GUI is zippier than ever. Page rendering is fast even though I'm running on a separate profile with no script or ad blocking add-ons. If Mr. Floodgap keeps this up, it'll end up the goto browser for Snow Leopard.
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Hunspell is the spell checker of LibreOffice, OpenOffice.org, Mozilla Firefox 3 & Thunderbird, Google Chrome, and it is also used by proprietary software packages, like macOS, InDesign, memoQ, Opera and SDL Trados.
Main features:
- Extended support for language peculiarities; Unicode character encoding, compounding and complex morphology.
- Improved suggestion using n-gram similarity, rule and dictionary based pronunciation data.
- Morphological analysis, stemming and generation.
- Hunspell is based on MySpell and works also with MySpell dictionaries.
- C++ library under GPL/LGPL/MPL tri-license.
- Interfaces and ports: AndroidHunspellService (for Android, based on the Chromium fork of Hunspell), Enchant (Generic spelling library from the Abiword project), XSpell (macOS port, but Hunspell is part of the macOS from version 10.6 (Snow Leopard), and now it is enough to place the Hunspell dictionary files into ~/Library/Spelling or /Library/Spelling for spell checking), Delphi, Java (JNA, JNI), Perl, .NET, .NET Standard, Python, Ruby (1, 2, 3), UNO, RichEdit.
Dictionaries (in LibreOffice, LibreOffice extensions, Mozilla Add-Ons)
Sponsors of project “Dutchspell in Hunspell”: OpenTaal Foundation and Dutch Language Union
Primary project sponsor: FSF.hu Foundation
Primary sponsor in 2008: IMEDIA Media Monitoring
Primary sponsor of the Hunspell development in 2003–2005: Budapest Technical University Media Research Centre (BME MOKK)
Libreoffice Snow Leopard Software
László Németh (e-mail: nemeth at numbertext dot org)
FSF.hu Foundation, Hungary