Leonardo Fontenelle

As a sequence of my february update (in Portuguese), I announce the new version of the Brazilian Portuguese dictionary for GNU Aspell 0.6 and Vim 7.

This update brings the improvements from BrOffice.org’s 2.2 Spell Checker (in Portuguese): umlaut requirement when appropriate, corrections in verb conjugation, even more word inclusions, and affix rules alterations. Raimundo Moura is already working on a new version, which should benefit from the hyphen to validate enclisis such as “conjugá-la-ia” (Portuguese for “I would conjugate it”). I’m waiting anxiously!

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A few weeks ago Red Hat released the Liberation typographic family, saying that the fonts would be metrically identical to the famous Arial, Times New Roman and Courier New, distributed by Microsoft. In practice, a document formatted with Arial could be displayed with Liberation Sans without any distortion. Really?

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I discovered through Og Maciel and Tux Vermelho about the GNOME Specimen 0.2 release. I found the application to be very interesting, but this will be subject of another article. I’d like to highlight the developer enthusiasm when he started to receive nice comments and, look, translations.

I agree with Wouter Bolsterlee: its great to work in a community!

If you use OpenOffice.org in Brazilian Portuguese, you should subscribe to its news feed. Today, for example, Gustavo Pacheco announced, in the name of the Documentation Project, the availability of more OpenOffice.org documentation in Portuguese: 2 original documents and 7 translated.
Writing or translating documentation is a demanding job, and OpenOffice.org documentation is extensive. Congratulations for the Documentation Project on the achievement!

Congratulations to Projeto Fedora Brasil (Project Fedora Brazil) for releasing Fedora 7! Like Rodrigo de Oliveira already mentioned, the release notes are already available in Brazilian Portuguese. I can tell you it includes a lot of up-to-date software, including xorg-server 1.3 (which will be part of X.Org 7.3), GNOME 2.18, NetworkManager (which couldn’t be included in GNOME for now) and SCIM.

I met the project through Igor Soares, at the time of GNOME 2.18 translation. I wish you plenty of success!

GNOME 2.18.2 was released May 28, and was already included on Foresight 1.3. This version brings the work of the new member of the Brazilian GNOME translation team: Vladimir Melo. In a month he translated Blam, Firestarter and F-Spot, and (with Og Maciel) Banshee. Ah! Before I forget, he also translated the Foresight 1.3 newsletter and created the page on frequent translation errors for the team.

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RedHat released recently a typographic font family to replace some fonts licensed by Microsoft. Nowadays free software users can use Times New Roman, Arial, Courier New and other fonts through the corefonts package, but its license doesn’t allow users to modify the fonts.

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I published on Viva o Linux a tip on how to set the system to make Gmail show up when you click on a link to an e-mail address. It should work with every web browser with JavaScript (Firefox, Epiphany, Konqueror, Opera, IE, Safari etc.), desktop environment (GNOME, KDE etc.) and operational system (Linux, BSD, MacOS X, Windows etc.). Unfortunately, the tip was written in Portuguese, so I’ll translate it for you here.

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Continuing my announcement on GNOME 2.18, I’d like to thank everyone who gave us a graphical interface completely translated to Brazilian Portuguese.

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