User:Nemeth
László Németh (e-mail: nemeth at numbertext dot org)
Hungarian free software activist, programmer. Contributor of LibreOffice code base since 2002, certified LibreOffice developer since 2014. Lead developer, mentor and consultant of free software projects, including LibreOffice migration projects of public administration of Hungary. LibreOffice software engineer at Collabora Productivity, Cambridge, UK between 2014–2017.
LibreOffice
More than 400 bug fixes (https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/q/owner:nemeth%40numbertext.org) in the area of interoperability and language technology, new i18n features. Examples:
- “Spell out” number and currency formats (LO 7.5)
- Show track changes of numbered lists (LO 7.4)
- New hyphenation options – hyphenation zone, minimum word length, skip last word of paragraph (LO 7.4)
- Tracked table row insertion and deletion (LO 7.3)
- Tracked text moving (LO 7.3)
- Custom color metadata field shadings (LO 7.2)
- Transliteration to Old Hungarian (LO 7.0)
- Grammar By spell checking (LO 6.0)
- Pattern matching in Autocorrect (LO 4.3)
- Non-standard hyphenation support in user-defined dictionaries (LO 4.3)
Free software
- Hunspell – spell checker and morphological analyzer. Unicode, compound word, multilevel suffixation and command line UI extension of Kevin B. Hendricks’ MySpell (integrated with LibreOffice, Firefox, Google Chrome and free operating systems, also with Apple iOS, Photoshop, Microsoft Edge etc.)
- NumberText.org – C , Java, JavaScript and Python libraries to spell out numbers with currencies in 50 languages (integrated with LibreOffice)
- LibreLogo – Writer toolbar, turtle vector graphics for graphics design, teaching programming and document editing
- Lightproof (grammar checker of LibreOffice)
- Hyphen – non-standard and compound word hyphenation extension of Raph Levien’s libhnj library (integrated with LibreOffice)
- MyThes – stemming and suffixation extension of Kevin B. Hendricks’ thesaurus library (integrated with LibreOffice)
- Szabad magyar szótár – open source Hungarian spelling and morphological dictionary (integrated with LibreOffice)
- Linux Libertine G and Biolinum G Graphite and typographical extension of Philipp H. Poll’s Linux Libertine and Biolinum fonts
- Zsort – sort Hungarian words
Publications
- Automatic non-standard hyphenation in OpenOffice.org, TUGboat 27:1 (2006) – Proceedings of EuroTeX 2006
- Building a LibreOffice development team, LibreOffice Conference, Tirana, 2018
- Developments at NISZ, LibreOffice Conference, 2019
- Grammar checking in LibreOffice
- L. Németh, V. Trón, P. Halácsy, A. Kornai, A. Rung, I. Szakadát. Leveraging the open source ispell codebase for minority language analysis, Proc. of SALTMIL 2004, LREC
- LibreLogo & eTwinning, LibreOffice Conference, Tirana, 2018
- LibreLogo – The Big Draw on LibreLogo.org, LibreOffice Conference, Bern, 2014
- LibreLogo – Contributing to Wikipedia, LibreOffice Conference, Milano, 2013
- LibreLogo – Turtle vector graphics for everybody, LibreOffice Conference, Berlin, 2012
- LibreOffice Language Technology, LibreOffice Conference, Tirana, 2018
- Soros language specification, 2009
- Towards Desktop Publishing, LibreOffice Conference, Paris, 2011