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Once a year I go to Oahu to teach at the University of Hawaii. Each year, when I teach changing the language settings for InDesign spelling checks, the students ask if there is a dictionary for Hawaiian. Each time I have sadly replied no. However, this year I asked in the User to User forum if anyone knew of a Hunspell dictionary for Hawaiian. I was pointed to an extension for Firefox that allows spell checking for Hawaiian. I contacted the author of the extension, Kevin Scallen from the Indigenous Tweets project and got a link to the custom Hawaiian Hunspell dictionary he created.
Kevin also has an extension for Firefox which can be used for gmail and other web-based services. Kevin is also interested in any Hawaiian-speakers to email him with suggestions for new words to add to his dictionary. So it turns out that finding the dictionary was the easy part. The hard part was deciphering the cryptic instructions in the Adobe Help files for Adding Hunspell dictionaries.
Sadly that was not the case. And if I found the tricky bits difficult, I figured many others would too. So I decided to write up this explanation. Perhaps the first clue that this will be difficult is that, unlike virtually every other feature in InDesign, Adobe actually put a link directly to the Help file for this topic in the program!
This opens the Help file document. You can just click that links to get there. Once I opened the Help file, I had to break the instructions down into smaller segments in order to understand what I needed to do.
I ended up with ten segments:. I got my Hawaiian dictionaries through Kevin. Adobe gives you the links to the dictionaries at the Apache OpenOffice website. You can also find Hunspell dictionaries that are extensions for Firefox. Instead of installing the Hawaiian dictionaries, which has its own special download link, I have decided to use a language that can be downloaded from OpenOffice or Firefox.
I chose New Zealand English in honour of my several friends based down there. I never thought the Kiwis spoke anything other that United Kingdom English, but there you are! However, there are plenty of other languages to choose such as Tagalog Philippines , Afrikaans South Africa , or Yiddish almost everywhere. The package downloads. If you download a dictionary extension from Mozilla Firefox, it comes with an. You need to extract the contents of this package. Once it is a Zip file there should be no problem using a default application to extract the package.
Change the file extension for a dictionary package to extract the contents. Once you have the package contents, you want to look for two types of files: a spelling or hyphenation dictionary. You want to make sure these files are named correctly. The dictionary and affix file code use the ISO code for the language in lowercase, an underscore, and then the ISO code for the country in uppercase.
For example, the dictionary code for english would be. If you have a hyphenation file, the naming format is hyph, an underscore, the ISO code for the language in lowercase, an underscore, and then the ISO code for the country.
The hyphenation file for English would be. So the files for one language can use the hyphenations from another. And you can skip the next step. Kevin explained that the ISO ran out of two-letter codes, so they expanded the language codes into three letters. ISO contains the additional three-letter codes.
Similarly, you can look to the ISO for the country codes. The New Zealand country code is NZ. English is an an example of a language that has more than one country. Each has the same language code, but a different country code. Fortunately since I am the stingiest person I know , I found a free list of country codes at Wikipedia. This was the part that totally stumped me.
The dictionary, aff, and hyph files all need to live in the proper place on your computer. But the instructions in the Adobe Help file had a major flaw! This is what the Help file says to do to find the location of the Dictionaries directory:. Notice that the path is cut off by the edge of the frame on the page.
I spent hours trying to find the right location for the Dictionaries files. I finally got it when I inserted my cursor inside the path text and triple clicked to select all the text in that table cell. Look carefully at these choices. If you are working with the 32 bit version of InDesign CC on the Windows 32 bit operating system, your path is:. If you are working with the 64 bit version of InDesign CC on the Windows 32 bit operating system, your path is:.
If you are working with the 64 bit version of InDesign CC on the Windows 64 bit operating system, your path is:. Mac users will encounter one more speed bump. Notice that part of the path is AdobeHunspellPlugin. When you get to that point in the path, right-mouse click and choose Show Package Contents. The AdobeHunspellPlugin directory opens with a double click, just as any other Windows folder opens. The dict, aff, and hyph files go in that folder.
The directory will look like this:. Like the Dictionaries directory, you need to wade through to find the info. The following information seems to be missing from the Adobe Help file steps. But it was the only way I was able to get the Hunspell dictionaries to appear inside InDesign. Open the info. You need to add string elements to three different places in this text file.
Find the text strings under Spelling Service, UserDictionaryService Element, and HyphenationService and add the following string element in each position:. I inserted three tab characters so each string element lines up with the rest of the text. Remember, you need to add these strings in three places. Save and close up all the text files, the directories, and restart InDesign. You need to look for the language listed in in the various places where the language would be listed.
For instance, I look at the language menu in the Control panel:. I never expected installing Hunspell dictionaries to be such an ordeal. And I can understand if these instructions have scared you off. Good luck! Thank you for taking the time to spell out the steps to add a custom dictionary to InDesign.
Once you download the oxt file, just follow the directions in the article. Thanks so much for this easy to follow step by step guide.
I too needed an Australian dictionary I installed it and it works! One extra thing I had to do was to change the Language option in my paragraph styles as they were defaulting back to UK English. After installing a new dictionary guided by your instructions I would like to know and extract from one of those dictionaries the plain list of words that are there. But could not find a path to do it.
Perhaps in a Mac as you mention is different? Before you install one of the dictionaries, just use a text editor to open the dict file. Why does Adobe have to make things so complicated. Thank you for your clear elucidation of the method. I was actually surprised how well it worked once all the places where dictionary selection has to be done were found-surely selecting the wanted dictionary in preferences should have been enough? As with the previous comment I too needed an AU dictionary which had Australian place names amongst other things.
Many thanks, i never think it was posible to install a dictionary in my language gallego in Indesign. To this moment I have had to use Open Office to do it, but now it is just more easy. I have two native languages: spanish and galician gallego or galego. I live in a small region of Spain and we have our language in adittion to the spanish :;. Thank you for this clear description Sandee. I am preparing a book in a regional language of West Africa and would like to use the spell check feature.
My first challenge is how to create a new hunspell dictionary from scratch using windows based hunspell software? Do you have experience with that? I was only searching for a way to get my abbreviations ricght in all different languages in my document for a new manual. Now it seems that you should almost be a programmer instead of a designer to get this right!