Adding upstream version 4:7.4.7.upstream/4%7.4.7upstream

Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>

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diff --git a/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/ConversionDictionary.idl b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/ConversionDictionary.idl
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+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+#ifndef __com_sun_star_linguistic2_ConversionDictionary_idl__
+#define __com_sun_star_linguistic2_ConversionDictionary_idl__
+
+#include <com/sun/star/linguistic2/XConversionDictionary.idl>
+#include <com/sun/star/util/XFlushable.idl>
+#include <com/sun/star/linguistic2/XConversionPropertyType.idl>
+
+
+module com { module sun { module star { module linguistic2 {
+
+/** represents a dictionary used in a conversion dictionary list.
+
+    <p>Specific implementations may put some restrictions for
+    the dictionary or it's entries.
+    Namely usually the order for the string pairs within a single entry
+    will be defined.</p>
+
+    @see    com::sun::star::linguistic2::ConversionDictionaryList
+    @see    com::sun::star::linguistic2::HangulHanjaConversionDictionary
+    @see    com::sun::star::linguistic2::XConversionDictionary
+    @see    com::sun::star::linguistic2::XConversionPropertyType
+
+     @since OOo 1.1.2
+*/
+published service ConversionDictionary
+{
+    /** to access the conversion dictionary functionality.
+    */
+    interface com::sun::star::linguistic2::XConversionDictionary;
+
+    /** to flush (save) the dictionary content to file
+    */
+    [optional] interface com::sun::star::util::XFlushable;
+
+    /**
+        @since OOo 2.0
+    */
+    [optional] interface com::sun::star::linguistic2::XConversionPropertyType;
+};
+
+
+}; }; }; };
+
+#endif
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/ConversionDictionaryList.idl b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/ConversionDictionaryList.idl
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+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+#ifndef __com_sun_star_linguistic2_ConversionDictionaryList_idl__
+#define __com_sun_star_linguistic2_ConversionDictionaryList_idl__
+
+#include <com/sun/star/linguistic2/XConversionDictionaryList.idl>
+
+
+module com { module sun { module star { module linguistic2 {
+
+/** represents a list of available conversion dictionaries.
+
+    <p>There will be only one list that may hold different types of
+    conversion dictionaries. That is e.g. it may hold dictionaries
+    for Korean Hangul/Hanja conversion along with ones for
+    Chinese traditional/simplified conversion or conversion between
+    different Indic script types.</p>
+
+    <p>The list will be used by the text conversion service to
+    check for user supplied text conversions.</p>
+
+    @see com::sun::star::linguistic2::ConversionDictionary
+    @see com::sun::star::linguistic2::HangulHanjaConversionDictionary
+    @see com::sun::star::i18n::TextConversion
+
+     @since OOo 1.1.2
+*/
+published service ConversionDictionaryList : XConversionDictionaryList;
+
+
+}; }; }; };
+
+#endif
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/ConversionDictionaryType.idl b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/ConversionDictionaryType.idl
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+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+#ifndef __com_sun_star_linguistic2_ConversionDictionaryType_idl__
+#define __com_sun_star_linguistic2_ConversionDictionaryType_idl__
+
+
+module com { module sun { module star { module linguistic2 {
+
+/** specifies the conversion dictionary type to be used with XConversionDictionary.
+
+     @since OOo 1.1.2
+*/
+constants ConversionDictionaryType
+{
+    /** Dictionary type for the conversion between Hangul and Hanja
+    */
+    const short HANGUL_HANJA        = 1;
+
+    /** Dictionary type for the conversion between Simplified and Traditional Chinese
+
+        @since OOo 2.0
+    */
+    const short SCHINESE_TCHINESE   = 2;
+};
+
+
+}; }; }; };
+
+#endif
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/ConversionDirection.idl b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/ConversionDirection.idl
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+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+#ifndef __com_sun_star_linguistic2_ConversionDirection_idl__
+#define __com_sun_star_linguistic2_ConversionDirection_idl__
+
+
+module com { module sun { module star { module linguistic2 {
+
+/** Conversion direction to be used with XConversionDictionary
+    when looking for conversions.
+
+     @since OOo 1.1.2
+*/
+published enum ConversionDirection
+{
+    /** the text to be looked for should match the left part of a
+        dictionary entry.
+     */
+    FROM_LEFT,
+
+    /** the text to be looked for should match the right part of a
+        dictionary entry.
+     */
+    FROM_RIGHT
+};
+
+
+}; }; }; };
+
+#endif
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/ConversionPropertyType.idl b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/ConversionPropertyType.idl
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+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+#ifndef __com_sun_star_linguistic2_ConversionPropertyType_idl__
+#define __com_sun_star_linguistic2_ConversionPropertyType_idl__
+
+
+module com { module sun { module star { module linguistic2 {
+
+/** specifies the property type of an entry in a conversion dictionary.
+
+    @see    com::sun::star::linguistic2::XConversionDictionary
+    @see    com::sun::star::linguistic2::XConversionPropertyType
+
+    @since OOo 2.0
+*/
+constants ConversionPropertyType
+{
+    /** There is no property type defined or available
+    */
+    const short NOT_DEFINED = 0;
+
+    /** Any word that does not fit into any of the other properties
+    */
+    const short OTHER       = 1;
+
+    /** A word or term that is transliterated or used from a non-Chinese language
+    */
+    const short FOREIGN     = 2;
+
+    /** The first name (given name) of a person
+    */
+    const short FIRST_NAME  = 3;
+
+    /** The last name (family name) of a person
+    */
+    const short LAST_NAME   = 4;
+
+    /** The academic or social title of a person
+    */
+    const short TITLE       = 5;
+
+    /** The status of a situation
+    */
+    const short STATUS      = 6;
+
+    /** The name of a location or place
+    */
+    const short PLACE_NAME  = 7;
+
+    /** The description of a business
+    */
+    const short BUSINESS    = 8;
+
+    /** An adjective
+    */
+    const short ADJECTIVE   = 9;
+
+    /** A term that is used to literally describe a circumstance
+    */
+    const short IDIOM       = 10;
+
+    /** An abbreviation
+    */
+    const short ABBREVIATION    = 11;
+
+    /** A numeric word
+    */
+    const short NUMERICAL   = 12;
+
+    /** A noun
+    */
+    const short NOUN        = 13;
+
+    /** A verb
+    */
+    const short VERB        = 14;
+
+    /** The name of a product or a company
+    */
+    const short BRAND_NAME  = 15;
+
+};
+
+
+}; }; }; };
+
+#endif
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/Dictionary.idl b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/Dictionary.idl
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+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+#ifndef __com_sun_star_linguistic2_Dictionary_idl__
+#define __com_sun_star_linguistic2_Dictionary_idl__
+
+#include <com/sun/star/linguistic2/XDictionary.idl>
+#include <com/sun/star/linguistic2/XSearchableDictionary.idl>
+#include <com/sun/star/util/XFlushable.idl>
+#include <com/sun/star/frame/XStorable.idl>
+
+
+module com { module sun { module star { module linguistic2 {
+
+/** represents a dictionary used for spell checking and hyphenation.
+
+
+    @see    com::sun::star::linguistic2::DictionaryList
+    @see    com::sun::star::linguistic2::XSearchableDictionaryList
+
+    @since OOo 3.0.1
+*/
+service Dictionary
+{
+    /** to access the dictionary functionality.
+    */
+    interface com::sun::star::linguistic2::XDictionary;
+
+    /** provide search for similar words functionality.
+    */
+    [optional] interface com::sun::star::linguistic2::XSearchableDictionary;
+
+    /** to save the dictionary content to file
+
+        <p>storeAsURL and storeToURL are empty implementations since the dictionaries are expected
+        to be found in specific locations</p>
+    */
+    [optional] interface com::sun::star::frame::XStorable;
+
+};
+
+
+}; }; }; };
+
+#endif
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/DictionaryEvent.idl b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/DictionaryEvent.idl
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+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+#ifndef __com_sun_star_linguistic2_DictionaryEvent_idl__
+#define __com_sun_star_linguistic2_DictionaryEvent_idl__
+
+#include <com/sun/star/lang/EventObject.idl>
+#include <com/sun/star/linguistic2/XDictionaryEntry.idl>
+
+
+
+module com { module sun { module star { module linguistic2 {
+
+/** represents a dictionary event.
+
+    <P>This type of event is used by a dictionary to inform
+    its listeners about changes in its properties or its entry list.
+    It consists of an event type and may supply an affected
+    dictionary entry.</P>
+
+    @see    com::sun::star::linguistic2::XDictionary
+    @see    com::sun::star::linguistic2::XDictionaryEventListener
+    @see    com::sun::star::lang::EventObject
+*/
+published struct DictionaryEvent : com::sun::star::lang::EventObject
+{
+    /** is the type of event.
+
+         <p>This must be the value of a single flag. No combinations are
+         allowed.</p>
+
+        @see    com::sun::star::linguistic2::DictionaryEventFlags
+    */
+    short nEvent;
+
+    /** is the affected dictionary entry (if any).
+
+         <p>It must be set if an entry was
+         added or deleted, otherwise it should be empty.</p>
+
+        @see    com::sun::star::linguistic2::XDictionaryEntry
+    */
+    com::sun::star::linguistic2::XDictionaryEntry xDictionaryEntry;
+
+};
+
+
+}; }; }; };
+
+#endif
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/DictionaryEventFlags.idl b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/DictionaryEventFlags.idl
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+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+#ifndef __com_sun_star_linguistic2_DictionaryEventFlags_idl__
+#define __com_sun_star_linguistic2_DictionaryEventFlags_idl__
+
+
+
+module com { module sun { module star { module linguistic2 {
+
+/** flags used for the event type in dictionary events.
+
+    <P>These flags represent the type of events that a dictionary
+    may broadcast.</P>
+
+    @see    com::sun::star::linguistic2::DictionaryEvent
+*/
+published constants DictionaryEventFlags
+{
+    /** indicates that at least one entry has been added.
+    */
+    const short ADD_ENTRY       = 1;
+
+    /** indicates that at least one entry has been deleted.
+    */
+    const short DEL_ENTRY       = 2;
+
+    /** the dictionary's name has changed.
+    */
+    const short CHG_NAME        = 4;
+
+    /** the dictionary's language has changed.
+    */
+    const short CHG_LANGUAGE    = 8;
+
+    /** all entries have been removed.
+    */
+    const short ENTRIES_CLEARED = 16;
+
+    /** used when the dictionary was activated.
+    */
+    const short ACTIVATE_DIC    = 32;
+
+    /** used when the dictionary was deactivated.
+    */
+    const short DEACTIVATE_DIC  = 64;
+
+};
+
+
+}; }; }; };
+
+#endif
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/DictionaryList.idl b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/DictionaryList.idl
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+++ b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/DictionaryList.idl
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+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+#ifndef __com_sun_star_linguistic2_DictionaryList_idl__
+#define __com_sun_star_linguistic2_DictionaryList_idl__
+
+#include <com/sun/star/linguistic2/XSearchableDictionaryList.idl>
+
+
+module com { module sun { module star { module linguistic2 {
+
+/** is the list of personal dictionaries.
+
+     <P>The active dictionaries of this list will be used for
+     spell checking and hyphenation.</P>
+
+    @see com::sun::star::linguistic2::XDictionary
+    @see com::sun::star::linguistic2::XDictionaryList
+    @see com::sun::star::linguistic2::XSearchableDictionaryList
+*/
+published service DictionaryList : XSearchableDictionaryList;
+
+
+}; }; }; };
+
+#endif
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/DictionaryListEvent.idl b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/DictionaryListEvent.idl
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+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+#ifndef __com_sun_star_linguistic2_DictionaryListEvent_idl__
+#define __com_sun_star_linguistic2_DictionaryListEvent_idl__
+
+#include <com/sun/star/lang/EventObject.idl>
+#include <com/sun/star/linguistic2/DictionaryEvent.idl>
+
+
+
+module com { module sun { module star { module linguistic2 {
+
+/** structure representing a dictionary-list event.
+
+    <P>This structure is used by the dictionary-list to inform
+    its listeners about certain events.
+    Since the dictionary-list is able to collect several single
+    events before broadcasting them to its listeners the
+    integer argument may be a combination (logical or) of several
+    event types.
+    If more specific information about the events is requested by a
+    listener, a sequence of all dictionary-list events since the
+    last broadcasting will be supplied. Otherwise, that list will
+    be empty.</P>
+
+    @see    com::sun::star::linguistic2::DictionaryList
+    @see    com::sun::star::linguistic2::XDictionaryListEventListener
+    @see    com::sun::star::lang::EventObject
+*/
+published struct DictionaryListEvent : com::sun::star::lang::EventObject
+{
+    /** the combined type of the accumulated events.
+
+    <p>The value can be the combination of multiple
+     com::sun::star::linguistic2::DictionaryListEventFlags
+     by applying the logical OR to them.</p>
+
+    @see    com::sun::star::linguistic2::DictionaryListEventFlags
+
+    */
+    short nCondensedEvent;
+
+    /** list of accumulated dictionary events.
+
+         <p>It will be empty if all
+        com::sun::star::linguistic2::XDictionaryListEventListener
+         are satisfied with the condensed representation of the
+        com::sun::star::linguistic2::DictionaryListEvent::nCondensedEvent().</p>
+
+        @see    com::sun::star::linguistic2::DictionaryEvent
+    */
+    sequence< com::sun::star::linguistic2::DictionaryEvent > aDictionaryEvents;
+
+};
+
+
+}; }; }; };
+
+#endif
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/DictionaryListEventFlags.idl b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/DictionaryListEventFlags.idl
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..5371d522e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/DictionaryListEventFlags.idl
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+#ifndef __com_sun_star_linguistic2_DictionaryListEventFlags_idl__
+#define __com_sun_star_linguistic2_DictionaryListEventFlags_idl__
+
+
+
+module com { module sun { module star { module linguistic2 {
+
+/** constants representing a single dictionary-list event.
+
+    <P>These flags define the possible types for a
+    dictionary-list event.</P>
+
+    @see    com::sun::star::linguistic2::DictionaryListEvent
+    @see    com::sun::star::linguistic2::XDictionaryListEventListener
+    @see    com::sun::star::linguistic2::XDictionaryList
+*/
+published constants DictionaryListEventFlags
+{
+    /** A positive entry was added to a dictionary from the
+        dictionary list.
+    */
+    const short ADD_POS_ENTRY = 1;
+
+    /** A positive entry was deleted from a dictionary of the
+        dictionary-list or a dictionary with positive entries
+        was cleared.
+    */
+    const short DEL_POS_ENTRY = 2;
+
+    /** A negative entry was added to a dictionary from the
+        dictionary-list.
+     */
+    const short ADD_NEG_ENTRY = 4;
+
+    /** A negative entry was deleted from a dictionary of the
+        dictionary-list or a dictionary with negative entries
+        was cleared.
+    */
+    const short DEL_NEG_ENTRY = 8;
+
+    /** A dictionary with positive entries was activated or
+        has changed its language.
+    */
+    const short ACTIVATE_POS_DIC = 16;
+
+    /** A dictionary with positive entries was deactivated or
+        has changed its language.
+    */
+    const short DEACTIVATE_POS_DIC = 32;
+
+    /** A dictionary with negative entries was activated or
+        has changed its language.
+    */
+    const short ACTIVATE_NEG_DIC = 64;
+
+    /** A dictionary with negative entries was deactivated or
+        has changed its language.
+    */
+    const short DEACTIVATE_NEG_DIC = 128;
+};
+
+
+}; }; }; };
+
+#endif
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/DictionaryType.idl b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/DictionaryType.idl
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..cbfc2ae29
--- /dev/null
+++ b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/DictionaryType.idl
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+#ifndef __com_sun_star_linguistic2_DictionaryType_idl__
+#define __com_sun_star_linguistic2_DictionaryType_idl__
+
+
+
+module com { module sun { module star { module linguistic2 {
+
+/** describes the type of a personal dictionary.
+
+    <P>This defines the type of a dictionary.
+    It may be positive or negative. A positive dictionary may hold
+    only positive entries (words defined to be correct for spell
+    checking) and a negative one only negative entries (words defined
+    to be reported as incorrect by the spell checker).</P>
+
+    @see    com::sun::star::linguistic2::XDictionary
+    @see    com::sun::star::linguistic2::XDictionaryEntry
+*/
+published enum DictionaryType
+{
+    /** all entries in the dictionary are positive.
+    */
+    POSITIVE,
+
+    /** all entries in the dictionary are negative.
+    */
+    NEGATIVE,
+
+    /**
+@deprecated
+     */
+    MIXED
+
+};
+
+
+}; }; }; };
+
+#endif
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/HangulHanjaConversionDictionary.idl b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/HangulHanjaConversionDictionary.idl
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d164a4a5e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/HangulHanjaConversionDictionary.idl
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+#ifndef __com_sun_star_linguistic2_HangulHanjaConversionDictionary_idl__
+#define __com_sun_star_linguistic2_HangulHanjaConversionDictionary_idl__
+
+#include <com/sun/star/linguistic2/ConversionDictionary.idl>
+
+
+module com { module sun { module star { module linguistic2 {
+
+/** represents a dictionary for Hangul/Hanja text conversion.
+
+    <p>A dictionary implementing this service will be used for
+    Hangul/Hanja conversion. Therefore the locale of the
+    dictionary has to be Korean, and the conversion type
+    com::sun::star::linguistic2::ConversionDictionaryType::HANGUL_HANJA.</p>
+
+    <p>Also for a pair (entry) to be added the
+    left part has to be in Hangul and the right in Hanja,
+    and the number of characters for the left part has to be the
+    same as for the right part.</p>
+
+     @since OOo 1.1.2
+*/
+published service HangulHanjaConversionDictionary
+{
+    service com::sun::star::linguistic2::ConversionDictionary;
+};
+
+
+}; }; }; };
+
+#endif
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/Hyphenator.idl b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/Hyphenator.idl
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..75796dd75
--- /dev/null
+++ b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/Hyphenator.idl
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+#ifndef __com_sun_star_linguistic2_Hyphenator_idl__
+#define __com_sun_star_linguistic2_Hyphenator_idl__
+
+#include <com/sun/star/lang/XInitialization.idl>
+#include <com/sun/star/lang/XComponent.idl>
+#include <com/sun/star/lang/XServiceDisplayName.idl>
+
+
+module com { module sun { module star { module linguistic2 {
+
+ published interface XHyphenator;
+ published interface XLinguServiceEventBroadcaster;
+
+/** offers hyphenation functionality.
+*/
+published service Hyphenator
+{
+    interface com::sun::star::linguistic2::XHyphenator;
+    interface com::sun::star::linguistic2::XLinguServiceEventBroadcaster;
+    interface com::sun::star::lang::XInitialization;
+    interface com::sun::star::lang::XComponent;
+    interface com::sun::star::lang::XServiceDisplayName;
+};
+
+
+}; }; }; };
+
+#endif
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/LanguageGuessing.idl b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/LanguageGuessing.idl
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..95d55f1be
--- /dev/null
+++ b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/LanguageGuessing.idl
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+#ifndef __com_sun_star_linguistic2_LanguageGuessing_idl__
+#define __com_sun_star_linguistic2_LanguageGuessing_idl__
+
+#include <com/sun/star/linguistic2/XLanguageGuessing.idl>
+
+module com { module sun { module star { module linguistic2 {
+
+    service LanguageGuessing:XLanguageGuessing;
+//     service LanguageGuessing{
+//         interface XLanguageGuessing;
+//         interface XLanguageGuesserConfig;
+//     };
+
+}; }; }; };
+
+#endif
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/LinguProperties.idl b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/LinguProperties.idl
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4d56bba1a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/LinguProperties.idl
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+#ifndef __com_sun_star_linguistic2_LinguProperties_idl__
+#define __com_sun_star_linguistic2_LinguProperties_idl__
+
+#include <com/sun/star/linguistic2/XLinguProperties.idl>
+
+
+module com { module sun { module star { module linguistic2 {
+
+/** the set of linguistic relevant properties.
+*/
+published service LinguProperties : XLinguProperties;
+
+
+}; }; }; };
+
+#endif
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/LinguServiceEvent.idl b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/LinguServiceEvent.idl
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..fc30ac014
--- /dev/null
+++ b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/LinguServiceEvent.idl
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+#ifndef __com_sun_star_linguistic2_LinguServiceEvent_idl__
+#define __com_sun_star_linguistic2_LinguServiceEvent_idl__
+
+#include <com/sun/star/lang/EventObject.idl>
+
+
+module com { module sun { module star { module linguistic2 {
+
+/** represents a linguistic service event.
+
+    <P>This type of event may be broadcast by a spell checker or
+    hyphenator service implementation to inform its listeners (clients)
+    that the results of previous function calls may be different now.
+    It is possible to suggest that hyphenation should be done again
+    and/or the spelling of previously incorrect or correct words
+    should be checked again.</P>
+
+    @see    com::sun::star::linguistic2::XLinguServiceEventBroadcaster
+    @see    com::sun::star::linguistic2::XLinguServiceEventListener
+    @see    com::sun::star::linguistic2::SpellChecker
+    @see    com::sun::star::linguistic2::Hyphenator
+    @see    com::sun::star::lang::EventObject
+*/
+published struct LinguServiceEvent : com::sun::star::lang::EventObject
+{
+    /** The type of event.
+
+         <p>The value may be combined via logical OR from those values
+        defined in com::sun::star::linguistic2::LinguServiceEventFlags</p>
+    */
+    short nEvent;
+
+};
+
+
+}; }; }; };
+
+#endif
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/LinguServiceEventFlags.idl b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/LinguServiceEventFlags.idl
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..324a74483
--- /dev/null
+++ b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/LinguServiceEventFlags.idl
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+#ifndef __com_sun_star_linguistic2_LinguServiceEventFlags_idl__
+#define __com_sun_star_linguistic2_LinguServiceEventFlags_idl__
+
+
+
+module com { module sun { module star { module linguistic2 {
+
+/** to be used in lingu-service events.
+
+    <P>These values define the flags which may be logically combined
+    to build the event type of a
+    com::sun::star::linguistic2::LinguServiceEvent</P>
+*/
+published constants LinguServiceEventFlags
+{
+    /** The spelling of previously correct words should be checked again.
+    */
+    const short SPELL_CORRECT_WORDS_AGAIN = 1;
+
+    /** The spelling of previously misspelled words should be checked again.
+    */
+    const short SPELL_WRONG_WORDS_AGAIN = 2;
+
+    /** The hyphenation of words may have changed.
+    */
+    const short HYPHENATE_AGAIN = 4;
+
+    /** Request new proofreading of the document
+
+        @since OOo 3.0.1
+    */
+    const short PROOFREAD_AGAIN = 8;
+
+};
+
+
+}; }; }; };
+
+#endif
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/LinguServiceManager.idl b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/LinguServiceManager.idl
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..fb2d71849
--- /dev/null
+++ b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/LinguServiceManager.idl
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+#ifndef __com_sun_star_linguistic2_LinguServiceManager_idl__
+#define __com_sun_star_linguistic2_LinguServiceManager_idl__
+
+#include <com/sun/star/linguistic2/XLinguServiceManager2.idl>
+
+module com { module sun { module star { module linguistic2 {
+
+/** offers linguistic functionality. Is to be used to access spell checker,
+    hyphenator and thesaurus.
+*/
+published service LinguServiceManager : XLinguServiceManager2;
+
+
+}; }; }; };
+
+#endif
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/NumberText.idl b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/NumberText.idl
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..67c77ceeb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/NumberText.idl
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+#ifndef __com_sun_star_linguistic2_NumberText_idl__
+#define __com_sun_star_linguistic2_NumberText_idl__
+
+#include <com/sun/star/linguistic2/XNumberText.idl>
+
+module com { module sun { module star { module linguistic2 {
+
+/** provides converter to spell out numbers and money amounts
+
+    <p>An implementation of this service will receive text and has to spell
+    out as cardinal, ordinal, ordinal indicator or money amounts.</p>
+
+    <p>An implementation of this service is not limited to number to number
+    conversion at all. It might also support other linguistic functions of
+    a given language, for example, spelling out years, gender and formal
+    variants or complex affixation of number names, or article selection.</p>
+
+    @since LibreOffice 6.1
+ */
+
+    service NumberText:XNumberText;
+
+}; }; }; };
+
+#endif
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/Proofreader.idl b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/Proofreader.idl
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..de5c8855e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/Proofreader.idl
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+#ifndef __com_sun_star_linguistic2_Proofreader_idl__
+#define __com_sun_star_linguistic2_Proofreader_idl__
+
+
+module com { module sun { module star { module linguistic2 {
+        interface XProofreader; };
+}; }; };
+
+
+module com { module sun { module star { module linguistic2 {
+
+
+/** provides a proofreader (often known as grammar checker) for text
+
+    <p>An implementation of this service will receive text and has to identify
+    the sentence end and report all errors found.</p>
+
+    <p>An implementation of this service is not limited to grammar checking at all.
+    It might also check style, used terms etc. Basically it can check every
+    aspect of a single sentence. Since the text provided is always the complete
+    paragraph it can also choose to analyze the context of the sentence currently
+    required to be checked. However error reports need to be limited to the
+    current sentence.</p>
+
+    @since OOo 3.0.1
+ */
+
+service Proofreader : XProofreader {};
+
+
+}; }; }; };
+
+#endif
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/ProofreadingIterator.idl b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/ProofreadingIterator.idl
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..7915dd803
--- /dev/null
+++ b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/ProofreadingIterator.idl
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+#ifndef __com_sun_star_linguistic2_ProofreadingIterator_idl__
+#define __com_sun_star_linguistic2_ProofreadingIterator_idl__
+
+
+module com { module sun { module star { module linguistic2 {
+        interface XProofreadingIterator; };
+}; }; };
+
+
+module com { module sun { module star { module linguistic2 {
+
+
+/** provides a proofreading iterator
+
+    <p>An implementation of this service acts as a mediator between documents
+    and proofreaders (often called just grammar checkers). It is responsible to
+    process requests for proofreading text portions.</p>
+
+    @since OOo 3.0.1
+ */
+
+service ProofreadingIterator : XProofreadingIterator;
+
+
+}; }; }; };
+
+#endif
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/ProofreadingResult.idl b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/ProofreadingResult.idl
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b1ac7a611
--- /dev/null
+++ b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/ProofreadingResult.idl
@@ -0,0 +1,77 @@
+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+#ifndef __com_sun_star_linguistic2_ProofreadingResult_idl__
+#define __com_sun_star_linguistic2_ProofreadingResult_idl__
+
+#include <com/sun/star/text/XFlatParagraph.idl>
+#include <com/sun/star/lang/Locale.idl>
+#include <com/sun/star/linguistic2/SingleProofreadingError.idl>
+#include <com/sun/star/beans/PropertyValue.idl>
+
+
+module com {  module sun {  module star {  module linguistic2 {
+
+// forward declaration
+interface XProofreader;
+
+/** holds the results from proofreading a sentence.
+
+    @since  OOo 3.0.1
+*/
+struct ProofreadingResult
+{
+    // the document ID
+    string aDocumentIdentifier;
+
+    // the paragraph that was checked
+    com::sun::star::text::XFlatParagraph xFlatParagraph;
+
+    // text that was checked (the paragraphs content may have changed meanwhile!)
+    string aText;
+
+    // language used for checking
+    com::sun::star::lang::Locale aLocale;
+
+    // the start of sentence position passed to the proofreader
+    long nStartOfSentencePosition;
+
+    // the end of sentence position found by the proofreader
+    // That is the index following the character terminating the sentence.
+    long nBehindEndOfSentencePosition;
+
+    // the start of the next sentence to be checked.
+    // Basically obtained by skipping all white spaces after the end of sentence position.
+    long nStartOfNextSentencePosition;
+
+    // the list of errors
+    sequence< com::sun::star::linguistic2::SingleProofreadingError > aErrors;
+
+    // a list of properties
+    sequence< com::sun::star::beans::PropertyValue > aProperties;
+
+    // reference to the specific proofreader implementation that reported the error
+    com::sun::star::linguistic2::XProofreader xProofreader;
+};
+
+
+}; }; }; };
+
+#endif
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/SingleProofreadingError.idl b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/SingleProofreadingError.idl
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..dfed3d559
--- /dev/null
+++ b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/SingleProofreadingError.idl
@@ -0,0 +1,71 @@
+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+#ifndef __com_sun_star_linguistic2_SingleProofreadingError_idl__
+#define __com_sun_star_linguistic2_SingleProofreadingError_idl__
+
+#include <com/sun/star/lang/Locale.idl>
+#include <com/sun/star/beans/PropertyValue.idl>
+
+
+module com {  module sun {  module star {  module linguistic2 {
+
+/** holds a single error found by the proofreader.
+
+    @since  OOo 3.0.1
+*/
+struct SingleProofreadingError
+{
+    // start index of the error text
+    // indicating the text to be replaced if suggestions are applied
+    long nErrorStart;
+
+    // the length of the error text
+    // indicating the text to be replaced if suggestions are applied
+    long nErrorLength;
+
+    // as in com.sun.star.text.TextMarkupType
+    long nErrorType;
+
+    // the id of the rule that this error is violating
+    string aRuleIdentifier;
+
+    // short error description text (usually to be displayed in context menu)
+    string aShortComment;
+
+    // full error description text (usually to be displayed in dialog)
+    string aFullComment;
+
+    // a list of correction suggestions
+    // Usually empty if only automatic checking was done.
+    sequence< string > aSuggestions;
+
+    // a list of properties
+    // <ul>
+    // <li>FullCommentURL: URL to a page providing more details on the
+    // error.</li>
+    // </ul>
+    sequence< com::sun::star::beans::PropertyValue > aProperties;
+};
+
+
+}; }; }; };
+
+#endif
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/SpellChecker.idl b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/SpellChecker.idl
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..371ed3dbe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/SpellChecker.idl
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+#ifndef __com_sun_star_linguistic2_SpellChecker_idl__
+#define __com_sun_star_linguistic2_SpellChecker_idl__
+
+#include <com/sun/star/lang/XInitialization.idl>
+#include <com/sun/star/lang/XComponent.idl>
+#include <com/sun/star/lang/XServiceDisplayName.idl>
+
+
+module com { module sun { module star { module linguistic2 {
+
+ published interface XSpellChecker;
+ published interface XLinguServiceEventBroadcaster;
+
+/** offers spell checking functionality.
+*/
+published service SpellChecker
+{
+    interface com::sun::star::linguistic2::XSpellChecker;
+    interface com::sun::star::linguistic2::XLinguServiceEventBroadcaster;
+    interface com::sun::star::lang::XInitialization;
+    interface com::sun::star::lang::XComponent;
+    interface com::sun::star::lang::XServiceDisplayName;
+};
+
+
+}; }; }; };
+
+#endif
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/SpellFailure.idl b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/SpellFailure.idl
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..fb02fe734
--- /dev/null
+++ b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/SpellFailure.idl
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+#ifndef __com_sun_star_linguistic2_SpellFailure_idl__
+#define __com_sun_star_linguistic2_SpellFailure_idl__
+
+
+
+module com { module sun { module star { module linguistic2 {
+
+/** these define the various return types for spell checking to fail verification.
+
+    <P>A value of this type is part of the
+    com::sun::star::linguistic2::XSpellAlternatives
+    interface which is the return type for an unsuccessful
+    spelling attempt.</P>
+
+    @see    com::sun::star::linguistic2::XSpellChecker
+*/
+published constants SpellFailure
+{
+    /** The word is a negative one, that is, it should not be used.
+    */
+    const short IS_NEGATIVE_WORD = 2;
+
+    /** The capitalization of the word is wrong.
+    */
+    const short CAPTION_ERROR = 3;
+
+    /** The spelling of the word is wrong (or at least not known to be correct).
+    */
+    const short SPELLING_ERROR = 4;
+
+};
+
+
+}; }; }; };
+
+#endif
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/Thesaurus.idl b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/Thesaurus.idl
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b00d2af4d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/Thesaurus.idl
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+#ifndef __com_sun_star_linguistic2_Thesaurus_idl__
+#define __com_sun_star_linguistic2_Thesaurus_idl__
+
+#include <com/sun/star/lang/XInitialization.idl>
+#include <com/sun/star/lang/XComponent.idl>
+#include <com/sun/star/lang/XServiceDisplayName.idl>
+
+
+module com { module sun { module star { module linguistic2 {
+
+published interface XThesaurus;
+
+/** offers thesaurus functionality.
+*/
+published service Thesaurus
+{
+    interface com::sun::star::linguistic2::XThesaurus;
+    interface com::sun::star::lang::XInitialization;
+    interface com::sun::star::lang::XComponent;
+    interface com::sun::star::lang::XServiceDisplayName;
+};
+
+
+}; }; }; };
+
+#endif
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/XAvailableLocales.idl b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/XAvailableLocales.idl
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..165060fb2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/XAvailableLocales.idl
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+#ifndef __com_sun_star_linguistic2_XAvailableLocales_idl__
+#define __com_sun_star_linguistic2_XAvailableLocales_idl__
+
+
+#include <com/sun/star/lang/Locale.idl>
+
+
+
+module com { module sun { module star { module linguistic2 {
+
+/** retrieves the list of available languages.
+*/
+published interface XAvailableLocales : com::sun::star::uno::XInterface
+{
+    /** retrieve the list of supported languages (Locales).
+
+        @see    com::sun::star::linguistic2::XSupportedLocales
+
+        @param aServiceName
+            the name of the service to get the list of available Locales for.
+        @return
+            the list of locales supported by the whole of all registered
+            implementations of that service. The sequence will be empty
+            if there is no such language or the service is not known.
+    */
+    sequence< com::sun::star::lang::Locale > getAvailableLocales(
+        [in] string                         aServiceName );
+};
+
+
+}; }; }; };
+
+#endif
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/XConversionDictionary.idl b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/XConversionDictionary.idl
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..a20a4a613
--- /dev/null
+++ b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/XConversionDictionary.idl
@@ -0,0 +1,202 @@
+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+#ifndef __com_sun_star_linguistic2_XConversionDictionary_idl__
+#define __com_sun_star_linguistic2_XConversionDictionary_idl__
+
+
+#include <com/sun/star/uno/XInterface.idl>
+#include <com/sun/star/lang/Locale.idl>
+#include <com/sun/star/linguistic2/ConversionDictionaryType.idl>
+#include <com/sun/star/linguistic2/ConversionDirection.idl>
+#include <com/sun/star/lang/IllegalArgumentException.idl>
+#include <com/sun/star/container/ElementExistException.idl>
+#include <com/sun/star/container/NoSuchElementException.idl>
+
+
+
+module com { module sun { module star { module linguistic2 {
+
+/** Allows the user to access a conversion dictionary.
+
+    <p>The dictionary consists of entries (pairs) of the form
+    ( aLeftText, aRightText ).
+    Those pairs can be added and removed. Also it can be looked
+    for all entries where the left text or the right text matches
+    a given text. Thus it can be used for conversions in both
+    directions.</p>
+
+    <p>Restrictions to what has to be the left and right text are usually
+    given by specific services implementing this interface.</p>
+
+    @see com::sun::star::linguistic2::ConversionDictionary
+    @see com::sun::star::linguistic2::HangulHanjaConversionDictionary
+
+     @since OOo 1.1.2
+*/
+published interface XConversionDictionary : com::sun::star::uno::XInterface
+{
+    /**
+        @returns
+            the name of the dictionary.
+    */
+    string getName();
+
+    /**
+        @returns
+            the language supported by the dictionary.
+
+        @see    com::sun::star::lang::Locale
+    */
+    com::sun::star::lang::Locale getLocale();
+
+    /**
+        @returns
+            the conversion type supported by the dictionary.
+
+        @see    com::sun::star::linguistic2::ConversionDictionaryType
+    */
+    short getConversionType();
+
+    /** specifies whether the dictionary should be used or not .
+
+        @param  bActivate
+            `TRUE` if the dictionary should be used, `FALSE` otherwise.
+
+    */
+    void setActive( [in] boolean bActivate );
+
+    /**
+        @returns
+            `TRUE` if the dictionary is active, `FALSE` otherwise.
+    */
+    boolean isActive();
+
+    /** removes all entries from the dictionary.
+    */
+    void clear();
+
+    /** searches for entries or conversions that match the given text.
+
+        <p>The exact string to be looked for is the substring from the
+        aText parameter that starts at position nStartPos and has the
+        length nLength.</p>
+
+        @returns
+            the list of conversions found for the supplied text.
+            If no nothing was found, it is empty.
+
+        @param  aText
+            the text where the substring to be looked for will be taken from.
+            Depending on the conversion direction parameter it specifies
+            either the left text or the right text to look for.
+        @param  nStartPos
+            the starting pos of the substring to be looked for.
+        @param  nLength
+            the length of the substring to be looked for.
+
+        @param eDirection
+            specifies the direction of the conversion to look for.
+            It is one of
+            com::sun::star::linguistic2::ConversionDirection.
+
+        @param nTextConversionOptions
+            Combination of com::sun::star::i18n::TextConversionOption
+            values.
+
+        @throws com::sun::star::lang::IllegalArgumentException
+            if the locale is not supported by the dictionary or if
+            nTextConversionOptions is invalid for the given locale.
+    */
+    sequence< string > getConversions(
+            [in] string aText,
+            [in] long nStartPos,
+            [in] long nLength,
+            [in] com::sun::star::linguistic2::ConversionDirection eDirection,
+            [in] long nTextConversionOptions )
+        raises( com::sun::star::lang::IllegalArgumentException );
+
+    /** is used to add a conversion pair to the dictionary.
+
+        @param  aLeftText
+            the left text of the pair to be added.
+
+        @param  aRightText
+            the right text of the pair to be added.
+
+        @throws com::sun::star::lang::IllegalArgumentException
+            if the arguments are invalid.
+            For example if the specifications defined by the service
+            implementing this object are not met.
+
+        @throws com::sun::star::container::ElementExistException
+            if such an entry already exists.
+    */
+    void addEntry(
+            [in] string     aLeftText,
+            [in] string     aRightText )
+        raises( com::sun::star::lang::IllegalArgumentException,
+                com::sun::star::container::ElementExistException);
+
+    /** removes a conversion pair from the dictionary.
+
+        @param  aLeftText
+            the left text of the pair to be removed.
+
+        @param  aRightText
+            the right text of the pair to be removed.
+
+        @throws com::sun::star::container::NoSuchElementException
+            if there is no such entry.
+    */
+    void removeEntry(
+            [in] string     aLeftText,
+            [in] string     aRightText )
+        raises( com::sun::star::container::NoSuchElementException );
+
+    /** returns the maximum number of characters used as left or right text
+        in entries.
+
+        @param eDirection
+            specifies if the left text or the right text of entries will
+            be used.
+
+        @see com::sun::star::linguistic2::ConversionDirection
+    */
+    short getMaxCharCount(
+            [in] com::sun::star::linguistic2::ConversionDirection eDirection );
+
+    /**
+        @returns
+            a list of all left or right parts of the dictionaries entries.
+        @param  eDirection
+            specifies if all left or all right parts of the entries
+            should be returned.
+    */
+
+    sequence< string > getConversionEntries(
+            [in] com::sun::star::linguistic2::ConversionDirection eDirection );
+
+};
+
+
+}; }; }; };
+
+#endif
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/XConversionDictionaryList.idl b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/XConversionDictionaryList.idl
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..9740178f8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/XConversionDictionaryList.idl
@@ -0,0 +1,188 @@
+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+#ifndef __com_sun_star_linguistic2_XConversionDictionaryList_idl__
+#define __com_sun_star_linguistic2_XConversionDictionaryList_idl__
+
+
+#include <com/sun/star/uno/XInterface.idl>
+#include <com/sun/star/container/XNameContainer.idl>
+#include <com/sun/star/linguistic2/XConversionDictionary.idl>
+#include <com/sun/star/lang/IllegalArgumentException.idl>
+#include <com/sun/star/lang/NoSupportException.idl>
+#include <com/sun/star/container/ElementExistException.idl>
+
+
+
+module com { module sun { module star { module linguistic2 {
+
+/** is used to manage and maintain a list of conversion dictionaries.
+
+    <p>The dictionaries added to the list may or may not support the
+    com::sun::star::util::XFlushable interface.
+    If they do those dictionaries have to be flushed upon termination
+    of the dictionary list.</p>
+
+     @since OOo 1.1.2
+*/
+published interface XConversionDictionaryList : com::sun::star::uno::XInterface
+{
+    /**
+        @returns
+            the name container interface to the dictionaries in the list.
+
+        <p>The interface can be used to add, remove or retrieve dictionaries
+        from the list by specifying the name of the dictionary, and
+        (in case of inserting) the interface to the dictionary as second
+        parameter.</p>
+
+        <p>A dictionary to be added must support the
+        com::sun::star::linguistic2::XConversionDictionary
+        interface.
+        The dictionary to be added needs not necessarily be created by
+        this service.</p>
+
+        <p>The com::sun::star::container::XNameReplace::replaceByName
+        function is implemented empty since renaming of dictionaries
+        is not allowed.</p>
+    */
+    com::sun::star::container::XNameContainer   getDictionaryContainer();
+
+    /** creates a new dictionary and adds it to the dictionary list.
+
+        <p>The dictionary will be empty and active.</p>
+
+        @returns
+            an empty dictionary with the given name, locale and
+            conversion type.
+             `NULL` on failure.
+
+        @param  aName
+            is the name of the dictionary (should be unique).
+
+        @param  aLocale
+            defines the language of the dictionary.
+
+        @param nConversionDictionaryType
+            One of com::sun::star::linguistic2::ConversionDictionaryType values.
+
+        @throws NoSupportException
+            when <var>nConversionDictionaryType</var> is not known by the implementation.
+
+        @throws ElementExistException
+            when a dictionary with the specified name already exists.
+    */
+    com::sun::star::linguistic2::XConversionDictionary addNewDictionary(
+            [in] string aName,
+            [in] com::sun::star::lang::Locale aLocale,
+            [in] short nConversionDictionaryType )
+        raises( com::sun::star::lang::NoSupportException,
+                com::sun::star::container::ElementExistException );
+
+    /** searches for entries that match the given text.
+
+        <p>All active dictionaries with matching locales and conversion
+        type will be searched
+        for entries matching the given text.</p>
+
+        <p>The exact string to be looked for is the substring from the
+        aText parameter that starts at position nStartPos and has the
+        length nLength.</p>
+
+        @returns
+            the list of entries found. If no entry was found,
+            it is empty.
+
+        @param  aText
+            the text where the substring to be looked for will be taken from.
+        @param  nStartPos
+            the starting pos of the substring to be looked for.
+        @param  nLength
+            the length of the substring to be looked for.
+
+
+        @param aLocale
+            Locale the conversion is referred to.
+
+        @param nConversionDictionaryType
+            specifies the type of conversion the dictionary
+            can be used for. It is one of
+            com::sun::star::linguistic2::ConversionDictionaryType.
+
+        @param eDirection
+            specifies the direction of the conversion to look for.
+            It is one of
+            com::sun::star::linguistic2::ConversionDirection.
+
+        @param nTextConversionOptions
+            Combination of com::sun::star::i18n::TextConversionOption
+            values.
+
+        @throws com::sun::star::lang::IllegalArgumentException
+            if the nTextConversionOptions parameter is invalid for
+            the given locale.
+
+        @throws NoSupportException
+            when <var>nConversionDictionaryType</var> is not known by the implementation,
+            or when the locale is not supported (i.e. there are no dictionaries
+            for that locale available).
+    */
+    sequence< string >    queryConversions(
+            [in] string aText,
+            [in] long nStartPos,
+            [in] long nLength,
+            [in] com::sun::star::lang::Locale aLocale,
+            [in] short nConversionDictionaryType,
+            [in] com::sun::star::linguistic2::ConversionDirection eDirection,
+            [in] long nTextConversionOptions )
+        raises( com::sun::star::lang::IllegalArgumentException,
+                com::sun::star::lang::NoSupportException );
+
+    /** returns the maximum number of characters used as left or right text
+        in entries.
+
+        <p>All active dictionaries of the specified locale and type
+        will be looked up to get the result.</p>
+        <p>The parameter eDirection specifies if only the left text or the
+        right text from entries should be considered.</p>
+
+        @param aLocale
+            Locale the conversion is referred to.
+        @param nConversionDictionaryType
+            specifies the type of conversion dictionaries to be looked up.
+            It is one of
+            com::sun::star::linguistic2::ConversionDictionaryType.
+        @param eDirection
+            specifies if the left text or the right text of entries will
+            be used.
+
+        @see com::sun::star::linguistic2::ConversionDirection
+    */
+    short queryMaxCharCount(
+            [in] com::sun::star::lang::Locale aLocale,
+            [in] short nConversionDictionaryType,
+            [in] com::sun::star::linguistic2::ConversionDirection eDirection );
+
+};
+
+
+}; }; }; };
+
+#endif
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/XConversionPropertyType.idl b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/XConversionPropertyType.idl
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..7e822d9c0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/XConversionPropertyType.idl
@@ -0,0 +1,91 @@
+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+#ifndef __com_sun_star_linguistic2_XConversionPropertyType_idl__
+#define __com_sun_star_linguistic2_XConversionPropertyType_idl__
+
+
+#include <com/sun/star/uno/XInterface.idl>
+
+
+#include <com/sun/star/lang/IllegalArgumentException.idl>
+#include <com/sun/star/container/NoSuchElementException.idl>
+
+
+
+module com { module sun { module star { module linguistic2 {
+
+/** allows set and retrieve the property type of an entry in a
+    conversion dictionary
+
+    <p>The property type must be one of
+    com::sun::star::linguistic2::ConversionPropertyType</p>
+
+    @see    com::sun::star::linguistic2::XConversionDictionary
+    @see    com::sun::star::linguistic2::ConversionPropertyType
+
+    @since OOo 2.0
+*/
+published interface XConversionPropertyType : com::sun::star::uno::XInterface
+{
+
+    /** sets the property type for the specified entry.
+
+        <p>The conversion entry is specified by the pair
+        ( aLeftText, aRightText ).</p>
+
+        @param aLeftText
+            the left text of the dictionary entry.
+        @param aRightText
+            the right text of the dictionary entry.
+        @param nPropertyType
+            the property type to be set for the entry
+    */
+    void setPropertyType(
+            [in] string aLeftText,
+            [in] string aRightText,
+            [in] short nPropertyType )
+        raises( com::sun::star::container::NoSuchElementException,
+                com::sun::star::lang::IllegalArgumentException );
+
+    /** returns the property type for the specified entry.
+
+        <p>The conversion entry is specified by the pair
+        ( aLeftText, aRightText ).</p>
+
+        @param aLeftText
+            the left text of the dictionary entry.
+        @param aRightText
+            the right text of the dictionary entry.
+        @returns
+            returns the property type for the entry with the specified
+            left text.
+    */
+    short getPropertyType(
+            [in] string aLeftText,
+            [in] string aRightText )
+        raises( com::sun::star::container::NoSuchElementException );
+
+};
+
+
+}; }; }; };
+
+#endif
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/XDictionary.idl b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/XDictionary.idl
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c184642c7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/XDictionary.idl
@@ -0,0 +1,236 @@
+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+#ifndef __com_sun_star_linguistic2_XDictionary_idl__
+#define __com_sun_star_linguistic2_XDictionary_idl__
+
+#include <com/sun/star/container/XNamed.idl>
+#include <com/sun/star/lang/Locale.idl>
+#include <com/sun/star/linguistic2/DictionaryType.idl>
+#include <com/sun/star/linguistic2/XDictionaryEntry.idl>
+#include <com/sun/star/linguistic2/XDictionaryEventListener.idl>
+
+
+module com { module sun { module star { module linguistic2 {
+
+/** This interfaces enables the object to access personal dictionaries.
+
+    <P>Personal dictionaries are used to supply additional
+    information for spell checking and hyphenation (see
+    com::sun::star::linguistic2::XDictionaryEntry).
+    Only active dictionaries with an appropriate language are used
+    for that purpose.
+    The entries of an active, positive dictionary are words that are
+    required to be recognized as correct during the spell checking
+    process. Additionally, they will be used for hyphenation.
+    Entries of a negative dictionary are required to be recognized
+    as negative words, for example, words that should not be used, during
+    SPELLCHECK. An entry in a negative dictionary may supply a
+    proposal for a word to be used instead of the one being used.</P>
+
+    @see    com::sun::star::linguistic2::XDictionaryEvent
+    @see    com::sun::star::container::XNamed
+*/
+published interface XDictionary : com::sun::star::container::XNamed
+{
+    /** returns the type of the dictionary.
+
+        @returns
+            the type of the dictionary.
+
+        @see    com::sun::star::linguistic2::DictionaryType
+    */
+    com::sun::star::linguistic2::DictionaryType getDictionaryType();
+
+    /** specifies whether the dictionary should be used or not .
+
+        @param  bActivate
+            `TRUE` if the dictionary should be used, `FALSE` otherwise.
+
+    */
+    void setActive( [in] boolean bActivate );
+
+    /**
+        @returns
+            `TRUE` if the dictionary is active, `FALSE` otherwise.
+    */
+    boolean isActive();
+
+    /**
+        @returns
+               the number of entries in the dictionary.
+    */
+    long getCount();
+
+    /**
+         @returns
+             the language of the dictionary.
+
+        @see    com::sun::star::lang::Locale
+    */
+    com::sun::star::lang::Locale getLocale();
+
+    /** is used to set the language of the dictionary.
+
+         @param aLocale
+            the new language of the dictionary.
+
+        @see    com::sun::star::lang::Locale
+    */
+    void setLocale( [in] com::sun::star::lang::Locale aLocale );
+
+    /** searches for an entry that matches the given word.
+
+        @returns
+            the reference to the entry found. If no entry was found,
+            it is NULL.
+
+        @param  aWord
+            the word to be looked for.
+
+        @see    com::sun::star::linguistic2::XDictionaryEntry
+    */
+    com::sun::star::linguistic2::XDictionaryEntry getEntry( [in] string aWord );
+
+    /** is used to add an entry to the dictionary.
+
+        <P>If an entry already exists, the dictionary remains unchanged
+         and `FALSE` will be returned.</P>
+
+        <P>In positive dictionaries only positive entries
+        can be made, and in negative ones only negative entries.</P>
+
+        @param  xDicEntry
+            the entry to be added.
+
+        @returns
+            `TRUE` if the entry was successfully added `FALSE` otherwise.
+
+        @see    com::sun::star::linguistic2::XDictionaryEntry
+        @see    com::sun::star::linguistic2::DictionaryType
+    */
+    boolean addEntry(
+        [in] com::sun::star::linguistic2::XDictionaryEntry xDicEntry );
+
+    /** is used to make an entry in the dictionary.
+
+        <P>If an entry already exists, the dictionary remains unchanged
+         and `FALSE` will be returned.</P>
+
+        <P>In positive dictionaries only positive entries
+        can be made, and in negative ones only negative entries.</P>
+
+        @param  aWord
+            the word to be added.
+
+        @param  bIsNegative
+            specifies whether the entry will be a negative one or not.
+
+        @param  aRplcText
+            in the case of a negative entry, this is the replacement text to
+            be used when replacing aWord. Otherwise, it is undefined.
+
+        @returns
+            `TRUE` if the entry was successfully added, `FALSE` otherwise.
+
+        @see    com::sun::star::linguistic2::DictionaryType
+    */
+    boolean add(
+            [in] string aWord,
+            [in] boolean bIsNegative,
+            [in] string aRplcText );
+
+    /** removes an entry from the dictionary.
+
+        @param  aWord
+            the word matching the entry to be removed.
+
+        @returns
+            `TRUE` if the entry was successfully removed, `FALSE`
+            otherwise (especially if the entry was not found).
+    */
+    boolean remove( [in] string aWord );
+
+    /**
+        @returns
+             `TRUE` if the dictionary is full and no further
+            entry can be made, `FALSE` otherwise.
+    */
+    boolean isFull();
+
+    /**
+        <p>This function should no longer be used since with the expansion of the
+        maximum number of allowed entries the result may become unreasonable large!</p>
+
+         @returns
+             a sequence with all the entries of the dictionary.
+
+        @see    com::sun::star::linguistic2::XDictionaryEntry
+        @see    com::sun::star::linguistic2::XSearchableDictionary
+        @deprecated
+    */
+
+    sequence<com::sun::star::linguistic2::XDictionaryEntry> getEntries();
+
+    /** removes all entries from the dictionary.
+    */
+    void clear();
+
+    /** adds an entry to the list of dictionary event listeners.
+
+        <P>On dictionary events, each entry in the listener list will
+         be notified via a call to
+        com::sun::star::linguistic2::XDictionaryEventListener::processDictionaryEvent().</P>
+
+        @param  xListener
+            the entry to be made, that is, the object that wants notifications.
+
+        @returns
+            `TRUE` if the entry was successfully made, `FALSE` otherwise.
+            If com::sun::star::lang::XEventListener::disposing() was called before,
+            it will always fail.
+
+        @see    com::sun::star::linguistic2::XDictionary::removeDictionaryEventListener()
+        @see    com::sun::star::linguistic2::XDictionaryEventListener
+    */
+    boolean addDictionaryEventListener(
+        [in] com::sun::star::linguistic2::XDictionaryEventListener xListener );
+
+    /** removes an entry from the list of dictionary event listeners.
+
+        @param  xListener
+            the reference to the listening object to be removed.
+
+        @returns
+            `TRUE` if the object to be removed was found and removed,
+            `FALSE` if the object was not found in the list.
+
+        @see    com::sun::star::linguistic2::XDictionary::addDictionaryEventListener()
+        @see    com::sun::star::linguistic2::XDictionaryEventListener
+    */
+    boolean removeDictionaryEventListener(
+        [in] com::sun::star::linguistic2::XDictionaryEventListener xListener );
+
+};
+
+
+}; }; }; };
+
+#endif
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/XDictionary1.idl b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/XDictionary1.idl
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..5cfef0d3c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/XDictionary1.idl
@@ -0,0 +1,76 @@
+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+#ifndef __com_sun_star_linguistic2_XDictionary1_idl__
+#define __com_sun_star_linguistic2_XDictionary1_idl__
+
+#include <com/sun/star/container/XNamed.idl>
+#include <com/sun/star/linguistic2/DictionaryType.idl>
+#include <com/sun/star/linguistic2/XDictionaryEntry.idl>
+#include <com/sun/star/linguistic2/XDictionaryEventListener.idl>
+
+
+module com { module sun { module star { module linguistic2 {
+
+/**
+    @deprecated
+*/
+published interface XDictionary1 : com::sun::star::container::XNamed
+{
+    com::sun::star::linguistic2::DictionaryType getDictionaryType();
+
+    void setActive( [in] boolean bActivate );
+
+    boolean isActive();
+
+    short getCount();
+
+    short getLanguage();
+
+    void setLanguage( [in] short nLang );
+
+    com::sun::star::linguistic2::XDictionaryEntry getEntry( [in] string aWord );
+
+    boolean addEntry( [in] com::sun::star::linguistic2::XDictionaryEntry xDicEntry );
+
+    boolean add(
+            [in] string aWord,
+            [in] boolean bIsNegative,
+            [in] string aRplcText );
+
+    boolean remove( [in] string aWord );
+
+    boolean isFull();
+
+    sequence<com::sun::star::linguistic2::XDictionaryEntry> getEntries();
+
+    void clear();
+
+    boolean addDictionaryEventListener( [in] com::sun::star::linguistic2::XDictionaryEventListener xListener );
+
+    boolean removeDictionaryEventListener( [in] com::sun::star::linguistic2::XDictionaryEventListener xListener );
+
+};
+
+
+}; }; }; };
+
+#endif
+
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/XDictionaryEntry.idl b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/XDictionaryEntry.idl
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0dc4d73a1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/XDictionaryEntry.idl
@@ -0,0 +1,80 @@
+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+#ifndef __com_sun_star_linguistic2_XDictionaryEntry_idl__
+#define __com_sun_star_linguistic2_XDictionaryEntry_idl__
+
+#include <com/sun/star/uno/XInterface.idl>
+#include <com/sun/star/lang/Locale.idl>
+
+
+module com { module sun { module star { module linguistic2 {
+
+/** This interfaces gives access to a dictionary entry.
+
+    <P>A dictionary entry can supply a word and its hyphenation
+    and indicate if it is a negative word.
+    If it is a negative entry it may supply a replacement text to
+    be used instead of the entry word.</P>
+
+     <P>Hyphenation positions are represented by an "=" in the word.
+     If the "=" is the last character of the word this means it should not
+     be hyphenated. If there is no "=" charter in the word, hyphenation
+     positions will be determined automatically (i.e., from the hyphenator
+    service alone).</P>
+
+     <P>Entries whose words only differ in hyphenation are considered
+     to be equal. Also a "." at the end of the word will make no
+     difference.</P>
+
+    @see    com::sun::star::linguistic2::XDictionary
+    @see    com::sun::star::uno::XInterface
+*/
+published interface XDictionaryEntry : com::sun::star::uno::XInterface
+{
+    /**
+         @returns
+             the word defining this entry.
+     */
+    string getDictionaryWord();
+
+    /**
+        @returns
+            `TRUE` if the word (entry) is a negative one and should not be
+             used, `FALSE` otherwise.
+    */
+    boolean isNegative();
+
+    /** is the suggested replacement text for negative words.
+
+         <p>It is undefined if the entry is not negative.</p>
+
+         @returns
+             the replacement text for a negative entry.
+             An empty string indicates that no replacement text is provided.
+     */
+    string getReplacementText();
+
+};
+
+
+}; }; }; };
+
+#endif
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/XDictionaryEventListener.idl b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/XDictionaryEventListener.idl
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..af053808d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/XDictionaryEventListener.idl
@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+#ifndef __com_sun_star_linguistic2_XDictionaryEventListener_idl__
+#define __com_sun_star_linguistic2_XDictionaryEventListener_idl__
+
+#include <com/sun/star/lang/XEventListener.idl>
+#include <com/sun/star/linguistic2/DictionaryEvent.idl>
+
+
+
+module com { module sun { module star { module linguistic2 {
+
+/** This interfaces allows the object to act according to dictionary events.
+
+    <P>The single method is used by a dictionary to notify its
+    listeners about
+    com::sun::star::linguistic2::DictionaryEvents.</P>
+
+    @see    com::sun::star::linguistic2::XDictionary
+    @see    com::sun::star::lang::XEventListener
+*/
+published interface XDictionaryEventListener : com::sun::star::lang::XEventListener
+{
+    /** is used to get notification of dictionary events.
+
+        @param  aDicEvent
+            the event to be notified of.
+
+    @see    com::sun::star::lang::DictionaryEvent
+    */
+    void processDictionaryEvent(
+            [in] com::sun::star::linguistic2::DictionaryEvent aDicEvent );
+
+};
+
+
+}; }; }; };
+
+#endif
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/XDictionaryList.idl b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/XDictionaryList.idl
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..63ec6a0ae
--- /dev/null
+++ b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/XDictionaryList.idl
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+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+#ifndef __com_sun_star_linguistic2_XDictionaryList_idl__
+#define __com_sun_star_linguistic2_XDictionaryList_idl__
+
+#include <com/sun/star/uno/XInterface.idl>
+#include <com/sun/star/linguistic2/XDictionary.idl>
+#include <com/sun/star/linguistic2/XDictionaryListEventListener.idl>
+
+
+module com { module sun { module star { module linguistic2 {
+
+/** is used to manage and maintain a list of dictionaries.
+
+    <P>A dictionary-list may be given to a spell checker or hyphenator
+    service implementation on their creation in order to supply a set
+    of dictionaries and additional information to be used for
+    those purposes.</P>
+
+    @see    com::sun::star::linguistic2::XDictionary
+    @see    com::sun::star::uno::XInterface
+*/
+published interface XDictionaryList : com::sun::star::uno::XInterface
+{
+    /**
+        @returns
+            the number of dictionaries in the list.
+    */
+    short getCount();
+
+    /**
+        @returns
+             a sequence with an entry for every dictionary
+            in the list.
+
+        @see    com::sun::star::linguistic2::XDictionary
+    */
+    sequence<com::sun::star::linguistic2::XDictionary> getDictionaries();
+
+    /** searches the list for a dictionary with a given name.
+
+         @returns
+            the XDictionary with the specified name. If no such
+            dictionary exists, `NULL` will be returned.
+
+        @param  aDictionaryName
+            specifies the name of the dictionary to look for.
+
+        @see    com::sun::star::linguistic2::XDictionary
+    */
+    com::sun::star::linguistic2::XDictionary getDictionaryByName(
+            [in] string aDictionaryName );
+
+    /** adds a dictionary to the list.
+
+        <P>Additionally, the dictionary-list will add itself to the list of dictionary
+         event listeners of that dictionary.</P>
+
+        @returns
+             `TRUE` if the dictionary was added successfully,
+            `FALSE` otherwise.
+
+        @param  xDictionary
+            the dictionary to be added.
+
+        @see    com::sun::star::linguistic2::XDictionary
+    */
+    boolean addDictionary(
+            [in] com::sun::star::linguistic2::XDictionary xDictionary );
+
+    /** removes a single dictionary from the list.
+
+        <P>If the dictionary is still active, it will be deactivated
+        first. The dictionary-list will remove itself from the list of
+        dictionary event listeners of the dictionary.</P>
+
+        @returns
+             `TRUE` if the dictionary was removed successfully, `FALSE`
+             otherwise.
+
+        @param  xDictionary
+            dictionary to be removed from the list of dictionaries.
+
+        @see    com::sun::star::linguistic2::XDictionary
+    */
+    boolean removeDictionary(
+            [in] com::sun::star::linguistic2::XDictionary xDictionary );
+
+    /** adds an entry to the list of dictionary-list event listeners.
+
+        <P>On dictionary-list events, each entry in the listener list will
+         be notified via a call to
+        com::sun::star::linguistic2::XDictionaryListEventListener::processDictionaryListEvent().</P>
+
+        @returns
+            `TRUE` if the entry was made, `FALSE` otherwise.
+            If com::sun::star::lang::XEventListener::disposing()
+            was called before, it will always fail.
+
+        @param  xListener
+            the object to be notified of dictionary-list events.
+
+        @param  bReceiveVerbose
+            `TRUE` if the listener requires more detailed event
+            notification than usual.
+
+        @see    com::sun::star::linguistic2::XDictionaryListEventListener
+        @see    com::sun::star::linguistic2::XDictionaryListEvent
+    */
+    boolean addDictionaryListEventListener(
+        [in] com::sun::star::linguistic2::XDictionaryListEventListener xListener,
+        [in] boolean bReceiveVerbose );
+
+    /** removes an entry from the list of dictionary-list event listeners.
+
+        @returns
+            `TRUE` if the object to be removed was found and removed,
+            `FALSE` otherwise.
+
+        @param  xListener
+            the object to be removed from the listener list.
+
+        @see    com::sun::star::linguistic2::XDictionaryListEventListener
+        @see    com::sun::star::linguistic2::XDictionaryListEvent
+    */
+    boolean removeDictionaryListEventListener(
+        [in] com::sun::star::linguistic2::XDictionaryListEventListener xListener );
+
+    /** increases request level for event buffering by one.
+
+         <P>The request level for event buffering is an integer
+         counter that is initially set to 0.
+        As long as the request level is not 0, events will be buffered
+         until the next flushing of the buffer.</P>
+
+        @returns
+             the current request level for event buffering.
+
+        @see    com::sun::star::linguistic2::XDictionaryListEvent
+        @see    com::sun::star::linguistic2::XDictionaryListEventListener
+        @see    com::sun::star::linguistic2::XDictionaryList::endCollectEvents()
+        @see    com::sun::star::linguistic2::XDictionaryList::flushEvents()
+    */
+    short beginCollectEvents();
+
+    /** flushes the event buffer and decreases the request level for
+         event buffering by one.
+
+         <P>There should be one matching endCollectEvents call for every
+         beginCollectEvents call. Usually you will group these around
+         some code where you do not wish to get notified of every single
+         event.</P>
+
+        @returns
+             the current request level for event buffering.
+
+        @see    com::sun::star::linguistic2::XDictionaryListEvent
+        @see    com::sun::star::linguistic2::XDictionaryListEventListener
+        @see    com::sun::star::linguistic2::XDictionaryList::beginCollectEvents()
+        @see    com::sun::star::linguistic2::XDictionaryList::flushEvents()
+    */
+    short endCollectEvents();
+
+    /** notifies the listeners of all buffered events and then clears
+         that buffer.
+
+        @returns
+             the current request level for event buffering.
+
+        @see    com::sun::star::linguistic2::XDictionaryListEvent
+        @see    com::sun::star::linguistic2::XDictionaryListEventListener
+        @see    com::sun::star::linguistic2::XDictionaryList::beginCollectEvents()
+        @see    com::sun::star::linguistic2::XDictionaryList::endCollectEvents()
+    */
+    short flushEvents();
+
+    /** creates a new dictionary.
+
+        @returns
+            an empty dictionary with the given name, language and type.
+             `NULL` on failure.
+
+        @param  aName
+            is the name of the dictionary (should be unique).
+
+        @param  aLocale
+            defines the language of the dictionary.
+             Use an empty aLocale for dictionaries which may contain
+            entries of all languages.
+
+        @param  eDicType
+            specifies the type of the dictionary.
+
+         @param aURL
+            is the URL of the location where the dictionary is persistent,
+            if the XStorable interface is supported.
+            It may be empty, which means the dictionary will not be persistent.
+
+        @see    com::sun::star::linguistic2::XDictionary
+        @see    com::sun::star::lang::Locale
+        @see    com::sun::star::linguistic2::DictionaryType
+    */
+    com::sun::star::linguistic2::XDictionary createDictionary(
+            [in] string aName,
+            [in] com::sun::star::lang::Locale aLocale,
+            [in] com::sun::star::linguistic2::DictionaryType eDicType,
+            [in] string aURL );
+
+};
+
+
+}; }; }; };
+
+#endif
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/XDictionaryListEventListener.idl b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/XDictionaryListEventListener.idl
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..86bda5264
--- /dev/null
+++ b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/XDictionaryListEventListener.idl
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+#ifndef __com_sun_star_linguistic2_XDictionaryListEventListener_idl__
+#define __com_sun_star_linguistic2_XDictionaryListEventListener_idl__
+
+#include <com/sun/star/lang/XEventListener.idl>
+#include <com/sun/star/linguistic2/DictionaryListEvent.idl>
+
+
+
+module com { module sun { module star { module linguistic2 {
+
+/** This interfaces allows the object to act according to
+    dictionary-list events.
+
+    <P>This interface is the base class for all dictionary-list event
+    listeners. Its single function will be called by the broadcasting
+    dictionary-list in order to notify its registered listeners.</P>
+
+    @see    com::sun::star::linguistic2::DictionaryListEvent
+    @see    com::sun::star::linguistic2::XDictionaryList
+*/
+published interface XDictionaryListEventListener : com::sun::star::lang::XEventListener
+{
+    /** is used to notify the object about dictionary-list events.
+
+        @param  aDicListEvent
+            the event to be notified of.
+
+    @see    com::sun::star::linguistic2::DictionaryListEvent
+    */
+    void processDictionaryListEvent(
+        [in] com::sun::star::linguistic2::DictionaryListEvent aDicListEvent );
+
+};
+
+
+}; }; }; };
+
+#endif
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/XHyphenatedWord.idl b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/XHyphenatedWord.idl
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0b03b11c5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/XHyphenatedWord.idl
@@ -0,0 +1,96 @@
+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+#ifndef __com_sun_star_linguistic2_XHyphenatedWord_idl__
+#define __com_sun_star_linguistic2_XHyphenatedWord_idl__
+
+#include <com/sun/star/uno/XInterface.idl>
+#include <com/sun/star/lang/Locale.idl>
+
+
+
+module com { module sun { module star { module linguistic2 {
+
+/** gives information obtained by a successful hyphenation attempt.
+
+    <P>This interface is used as a return value for some of the hyphenator
+    functions.</P>
+
+    @see    com::sun::star::linguistic2::XHyphenator
+*/
+published interface XHyphenatedWord : com::sun::star::uno::XInterface
+{
+    /**
+         @returns
+             the word that was hyphenated.
+     */
+    string getWord();
+
+    /**
+         @returns
+            the language of the hyphenated word.
+
+        @see    com::sun::star::lang::Locale
+    */
+    com::sun::star::lang::Locale getLocale();
+
+    /**
+        @returns
+            the position where hyphenation was applied in the word.
+
+        <P>The value has to be in the range from 0 (after the first character)
+         to n-2 (before the last character) where n is the length of
+         the word.</P>
+    */
+    short getHyphenationPos();
+
+    /**
+         @returns
+             the hyphenated word as it should be written (without the hyphen
+             character).
+     */
+    string getHyphenatedWord();
+
+    /**
+        @returns
+            the position of the hyphen in the hyphenated word.
+
+        <P>The value has to be in the range from 0 (after the first character)
+         to m-2 (before the last character) where m is the length of
+         the hyphenated word.</P>
+    */
+    short getHyphenPos();
+
+    /** is used to query if the hyphenation result is an alternative spelling.
+
+         <p>A hyphenation result is an alternative spelling if the hyphenated
+         word is different from the word that was hyphenated.</p>
+
+         @returns
+             `TRUE` if it is an alternative spelling, `FALSE` otherwise.
+    */
+    boolean isAlternativeSpelling();
+
+};
+
+
+}; }; }; };
+
+#endif
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/XHyphenator.idl b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/XHyphenator.idl
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e7bddcace
--- /dev/null
+++ b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/XHyphenator.idl
@@ -0,0 +1,181 @@
+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+#ifndef __com_sun_star_linguistic2_XHyphenator_idl__
+#define __com_sun_star_linguistic2_XHyphenator_idl__
+
+
+#include <com/sun/star/lang/Locale.idl>
+#include <com/sun/star/linguistic2/XSupportedLocales.idl>
+#include <com/sun/star/linguistic2/XDictionaryList.idl>
+#include <com/sun/star/linguistic2/XHyphenatedWord.idl>
+#include <com/sun/star/linguistic2/XPossibleHyphens.idl>
+#include <com/sun/star/beans/PropertyValues.idl>
+#include <com/sun/star/lang/IllegalArgumentException.idl>
+
+
+module com { module sun { module star { module linguistic2 {
+
+/** provides functionality for hyphenation of single words.
+
+    <P>Its three main functionalities are to provide a suitable position for
+    breaking lines within a word, query about the existence of an alternative
+    spelling at a specific position of a word and provide a list of
+    possible hyphenation positions within a word.</P>
+
+    <P>A hyphenation position for a word with n characters is represented
+    by a value in the range from 0 to n-2, indicating the position
+    of the character after which the hyphenation is done. That is,
+    it is after the first and before the last character.</P>
+
+    <P>A valid hyphenation position is a hyphenation position that
+    fulfills all the restrictions implied by the properties
+    MinLeading, MinTrailing and MinWordLength.</P>
+
+    @see    com::sun::star::linguistic2::LinguProperties
+    @see    com::sun::star::linguistic2::XSupportedLocales
+*/
+published interface XHyphenator : com::sun::star::linguistic2::XSupportedLocales
+{
+    /** tries to find a valid hyphenation position relative
+        to the beginning of a word.
+
+        <P>Note: Some languages, for example Arabic, are written from right
+        to left.</P>
+
+        @returns
+            the XHyphenatedWord for the last valid hyphenation position
+             that is less than or equal to nMaxLeading - 1.
+            If there is no such valid hyphenation position, `NULL` is returned.
+
+        @param  aWord
+            is the word to be hyphenated.
+
+        @param  aLocale
+            defines the language to be used.
+
+            <P>If the language is not supported, an IllegalArgumentException
+            exception is raised.</P>
+
+        @param  nMaxLeading
+            specifies the maximum number of characters to remain
+            before the hyphen in the hyphenated word.
+
+            <P>It has to be greater than or equal to 0.</P>
+
+        @param aProperties
+            provides property values to be used for this function call only.
+            It is usually empty in order to use the default values supplied
+            with the property set.
+
+        @see    com::sun::star::linguistic2::XHyphenatedWord
+        @see    com::sun::star::lang::Locale
+    */
+    com::sun::star::linguistic2::XHyphenatedWord hyphenate(
+            [in] string aWord,
+            [in] com::sun::star::lang::Locale aLocale,
+            [in] short nMaxLeading,
+            [in] com::sun::star::beans::PropertyValues aProperties )
+        raises( com::sun::star::lang::IllegalArgumentException );
+
+    /** checks whether hyphenation at a position in a word will result in
+        an alternative spelling or not.
+
+        <P>An alternative spelling position is a hyphen position where,
+        if hyphenation is done here, the writing of the word changes.
+        Example: "B&auml;cker" in German pre spelling-reform becomes
+         "B&auml;kker" if hyphenation is done after the "c".</P>
+
+        <P>The hyphenation position does not need to be a valid one to be an
+        alternative spelling position.</P>
+
+        @returns
+            the information about the alternative spelling found at the
+            specified position. Otherwise, if no alternative spelling was
+            found, `NULL` is returned.
+
+        @param  aWord
+            is the original word to be looked at for having an alternative
+            spelling, if hyphenation is done at position nIndex.
+
+        @param aLocale
+            specifies the language to be used.
+
+            <P>If the language is not supported, an IllegalArgumentException
+            exception is raised.</P>
+
+        @param  nIndex
+            is the position in the word to be looked at.
+
+            <P>If the length of the word is n, the value of this
+            parameter has to be in the range from 0 to n-2.</P>
+
+        @param aProperties
+            provides property values to be used for this function call only.
+            It is usually empty in order to use the default values supplied
+            with the property set.
+
+        @see    com::sun::star::linguistic2::XHyphenatedWord
+        @see    com::sun::star::lang::Locale
+    */
+    com::sun::star::linguistic2::XHyphenatedWord queryAlternativeSpelling(
+            [in] string aWord,
+            [in] com::sun::star::lang::Locale aLocale,
+            [in] short nIndex,
+            [in] com::sun::star::beans::PropertyValues aProperties )
+        raises( com::sun::star::lang::IllegalArgumentException );
+
+    /** returns information about all possible hyphenation positions of a word.
+
+        @returns
+            a com::sun::star::linguistic2::XPossibleHyphens
+            for the given word and language if there are any hyphenation
+            positions. `NULL` otherwise.
+
+        @param  aWord
+            is the word for which information about the possible
+             hyphenation positions is to be retrieved.
+
+        @param  aLocale
+            defines the language of the word.
+
+            <P>If the language is not supported, an IllegalArgumentException
+            exception is raised.</P>
+
+        @param aProperties
+            provides property values to be used for this function call only.
+            It is usually empty in order to use the default values supplied
+            with the property set.
+
+        @see    com::sun::star::linguistic2::XPossibleHyphens
+        @see    com::sun::star::lang::Locale
+    */
+    com::sun::star::linguistic2::XPossibleHyphens createPossibleHyphens(
+            [in] string aWord,
+            [in] com::sun::star::lang::Locale aLocale,
+            [in] com::sun::star::beans::PropertyValues aProperties )
+        raises( com::sun::star::lang::IllegalArgumentException );
+
+};
+
+
+}; }; }; };
+
+#endif
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/XLanguageGuessing.idl b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/XLanguageGuessing.idl
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..5408ab076
--- /dev/null
+++ b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/XLanguageGuessing.idl
@@ -0,0 +1,186 @@
+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+#ifndef __com_sun_star_linguistic2_XLanguageGuessing_idl__
+#define __com_sun_star_linguistic2_XLanguageGuessing_idl__
+
+#include <com/sun/star/uno/XInterface.idl>
+#include <com/sun/star/lang/Locale.idl>
+#include <com/sun/star/lang/IllegalArgumentException.idl>
+
+module com { module sun { module star { module linguistic2 {
+
+/** This interface allows to guess the language of a text
+
+    <p> The current set of supported languages is:
+    <ul>
+        <li>af : Afrikaans</li>
+        <li>am : Amharic</li>
+        <li>ar : Arabic</li>
+        <li>be : Belarus</li>
+        <li>br : Breton</li>
+        <li>bs : Bosnian</li>
+        <li>ca : Catalan</li>
+        <li>cs : Czech</li>
+        <li>cy : Welsh</li>
+        <li>da : Danish</li>
+        <li>de : German</li>
+        <li>drt : Drents</li>
+        <li>el : Greek</li>
+        <li>en : English</li>
+        <li>eo : Esperanto</li>
+        <li>es : Spanish</li>
+        <li>et : Estonian</li>
+        <li>eu : Basque</li>
+        <li>fa : Persian</li>
+        <li>fi : Finnish</li>
+        <li>fr : French</li>
+        <li>fy : Frisian</li>
+        <li>ga : Irish Gaelic</li>
+        <li>gd : Scots Gaelic</li>
+        <li>gv : Manx Gaelic</li>
+        <li>he : Hebrew</li>
+        <li>hi : Hindi</li>
+        <li>hr : Croatian</li>
+        <li>hu : Hungarian</li>
+        <li>hy : Armenian</li>
+        <li>id : Indonesian</li>
+        <li>is : Icelandic</li>
+        <li>it : Italian</li>
+        <li>ja : Japanese</li>
+        <li>ka : Georgian</li>
+        <li>ko : Korean</li>
+        <li>la : Latin</li>
+        <li>lb : Luxembourgish (added with OOo 3.3)</li>
+        <li>lt : Lithuanian</li>
+        <li>lv : Latvian</li>
+        <li>mr : Marathi</li>
+        <li>ms : Malay</li>
+        <li>ne : Nepali</li>
+        <li>nl : Dutch</li>
+        <li>nb : Norwegian (Bokmal)</li>
+        <li>pl : Polish</li>
+        <li>pt-PT : Portuguese (Portugal)</li>
+        <li>qu : Quechua</li>
+        <li>rm : Romansh</li>
+        <li>ro : Romanian</li>
+        <li>ru : Russian</li>
+        <li>sa : Sanskrit</li>
+        <li>sco : Scots</li>
+        <li>sh : Serbian (written with latin characters)</li>
+        <li>sk-SK : Slovak (written with Latin characters)</li>
+        <li>sl : Slovenian</li>
+        <li>sq : Albanian</li>
+        <li>sr : Serbian (written with cyrillic characters) (added with OOo 3.4)</li>
+        <li>sv : Swedish</li>
+        <li>sw : Swahili</li>
+        <li>ta : Tamil</li>
+        <li>th : Thai</li>
+        <li>tl : Tagalog</li>
+        <li>tr : Turkish</li>
+        <li>uk : Ukrainian</li>
+        <li>vi : Vietnamese</li>
+        <li>yi : Yiddish</li>
+        <li>zh-CN : Chinese (simplified)</li>
+        <li>zh-TW : Chinese (traditional)</li>
+    </ul>
+
+    </p>
+
+    @since OOo 2.2
+ */
+interface XLanguageGuessing
+{
+    /** determines the single most probable language of a sub-string.
+
+        <p>Please note that because statistical analysis is part
+        of the algorithm the likelihood to get the correct
+        result increases with the length of the sub-string.
+        A word is much less likely guessed correctly compared to
+        a sentence or even a whole paragraph.</p>
+
+        <p>Also note that some languages are that "close" to each other
+        that it will be quite unlikely to find a difference in them,
+        e.g. English (UK), English (IE) and English (AUS) and
+        most likely English (US) as well. And thus the result may
+        be arbitrary.</p>
+
+        @returns
+            the locale for the language identified.
+            If no language could be identified the locale will be empty.
+
+        @param  aText
+            all the text including the part that should checked.
+
+        @param nStartPos
+            specifies the starting index of the sub-string to be checked
+            The value must met 0 <= nStartPos < (length of text - 1).
+
+        @param nLen
+            specifies the length of the sub-string to be checked.
+            The value must met 0 <= nLen <= (length of text).
+
+        @see    com::sun::star::lang::Locale
+     */
+    com::sun::star::lang::Locale    guessPrimaryLanguage(
+            [in] string  aText,
+            [in] long    nStartPos,
+            [in] long    nLen )
+        raises( com::sun::star::lang::IllegalArgumentException );
+
+    /** allows to explicitly discard some languages from the set of
+        languages possibly returned.
+
+        <p>By default all languages are enabled.</p>
+    */
+    void disableLanguages(
+            [in] sequence< com::sun::star::lang::Locale > aLanguages )
+        raises( com::sun::star::lang::IllegalArgumentException );
+
+    /** allows to explicitly re-enable some languages that got previously
+        disabled.
+
+        <p>By default all languages are enabled.</p>
+    */
+    void enableLanguages(
+            [in] sequence< com::sun::star::lang::Locale > aLanguages )
+        raises( com::sun::star::lang::IllegalArgumentException );
+
+    /** returns a list of all supported languages.
+
+        <p>This should be the same as the mathematical union of
+        all enabled and disabled languages.</p>
+    */
+    sequence< com::sun::star::lang::Locale > getAvailableLanguages();
+
+    /** returns the list of all enabled languages
+    */
+    sequence< com::sun::star::lang::Locale > getEnabledLanguages();
+
+    /** returns the list of all disabled languages
+    */
+    sequence< com::sun::star::lang::Locale > getDisabledLanguages();
+
+};
+
+}; }; }; };
+
+#endif
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/XLinguProperties.idl b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/XLinguProperties.idl
new file mode 100644
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+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+#ifndef __com_sun_star_linguistic2_XLinguProperties_idl__
+#define __com_sun_star_linguistic2_XLinguProperties_idl__
+
+#include <com/sun/star/beans/XPropertySet.idl>
+#include <com/sun/star/beans/XFastPropertySet.idl>
+#include <com/sun/star/lang/XComponent.idl>
+#include <com/sun/star/lang/Locale.idl>
+
+
+module com { module sun { module star { module linguistic2 {
+
+/**
+    Interface for LinguProperties service.
+
+    @since LibreOffice 4.1
+*/
+published interface XLinguProperties
+{
+    interface com::sun::star::beans::XPropertySet;
+
+    /** defines if the dictionary-list should be used for spell checking
+         and hyphenation or not.
+    */
+    [attribute] boolean IsUseDictionaryList;
+
+    /** defines if control characters should be ignored or not, by the linguistic
+         (i.e., spell checker, hyphenator and thesaurus).
+    */
+    [attribute] boolean IsIgnoreControlCharacters;
+
+    /** defines if words with only uppercase letters should be
+         subject to spell checking or not.
+    */
+    [attribute] boolean IsSpellUpperCase;
+
+    /** defines if words containing digits (or numbers) should be
+         subject to spell checking or not.
+    */
+    [attribute] boolean IsSpellWithDigits;
+
+    /** defines if the capitalization of words should be checked or not.
+
+        @deprecated
+    */
+    [attribute] boolean IsSpellCapitalization;
+
+    /** the minimum number of characters of a word to remain before the
+         hyphen when doing hyphenation.
+    */
+    [attribute] short HyphMinLeading;
+
+    /** the minimum number of characters of a word to remain after the
+         hyphen when doing hyphenation.
+    */
+    [attribute] short HyphMinTrailing;
+
+    /** the minimum length of a word in order to be hyphenated.
+    */
+    [attribute] short HyphMinWordLength;
+
+    /** the default western language for new documents.
+    */
+    [attribute] com::sun::star::lang::Locale DefaultLocale;
+
+    /** defines whether interactive hyphenation should be performed without
+        requiring the user to select every hyphenation position after the user
+        has triggered the hyphenation.
+    */
+    [attribute] boolean IsHyphAuto;
+
+    /** defines whether hyphenation should be done in special regions of
+         documents or not.
+    */
+    [attribute] boolean IsHyphSpecial;
+
+    /** indicates whether spell checking should be done automatically or not.
+    */
+    [attribute] boolean IsSpellAuto;
+
+    /** defines whether spell checking should be done in special regions of
+         documents or not.
+    */
+    [attribute] boolean IsSpellSpecial;
+
+    /** defines whether spell checking should be done in reverse
+         direction or not.
+    */
+    [attribute] boolean IsWrapReverse;
+
+    /** the default language for CJK languages.
+    */
+    [attribute] com::sun::star::lang::Locale DefaultLocale_CJK;
+
+    /** the default language for CTL languages.
+    */
+    [attribute] com::sun::star::lang::Locale DefaultLocale_CTL;
+
+};
+
+
+}; }; }; };
+
+#endif
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/XLinguServiceEventBroadcaster.idl b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/XLinguServiceEventBroadcaster.idl
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..9a5af31f1
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+++ b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/XLinguServiceEventBroadcaster.idl
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+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+#ifndef __com_sun_star_linguistic2_XLinguServiceEventBroadcaster_idl__
+#define __com_sun_star_linguistic2_XLinguServiceEventBroadcaster_idl__
+
+
+#include <com/sun/star/uno/XInterface.idl>
+#include <com/sun/star/linguistic2/XLinguServiceEventListener.idl>
+
+
+module com { module sun { module star { module linguistic2 {
+
+/** is used to register a listener for LinguServiceEvents.
+
+    <P>This interface may be used by spell checker or hyphenator
+    implementations to allow clients to be registered and informed about
+    com::sun::star::linguistic2::LinguServiceEvents.
+    </P>
+
+    <P>Note: The LinguServiceManager forwards the
+    com::sun::star::linguistic2::LinguServiceEvents
+    it receives (from spell checkers or hyphenators) to its own listeners.
+    Thus, there should be no need to register
+    as a listener for a specific implementation./P>
+
+    @see    com::sun::star::linguistic2::XLinguServiceManager
+    @see    com::sun::star::linguistic2::XLinguServiceEventListener
+*/
+published interface XLinguServiceEventBroadcaster : com::sun::star::uno::XInterface
+{
+    /**
+         @returns
+             `TRUE` if the listener was successfully added,
+            `FALSE` otherwise.
+
+        @param xLstnr
+            the listener to be added.
+     */
+    boolean addLinguServiceEventListener (
+        [in] com::sun::star::linguistic2::XLinguServiceEventListener    xLstnr );
+
+    /**
+         @returns
+             `TRUE` if the listener was successfully removed,
+            `FALSE` otherwise.
+
+        @param xLstnr
+            the listener to be removed.
+     */
+    boolean removeLinguServiceEventListener (
+        [in] com::sun::star::linguistic2::XLinguServiceEventListener    xLstnr );
+
+};
+
+
+}; }; }; };
+
+#endif
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/XLinguServiceEventListener.idl b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/XLinguServiceEventListener.idl
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ff5b9493c
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+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+#ifndef __com_sun_star_linguistic2_XLinguServiceEventListener_idl__
+#define __com_sun_star_linguistic2_XLinguServiceEventListener_idl__
+
+
+#include <com/sun/star/lang/XEventListener.idl>
+#include <com/sun/star/linguistic2/LinguServiceEvent.idl>
+
+
+module com { module sun { module star { module linguistic2 {
+
+/** is used to inform listeners about LinguServiceEvents.
+
+    <P>The function of this interface is used by the
+    com::sun::star::linguistic2::XLinguServiceEventBroadcaster
+    to inform its listeners about the
+    com::sun::star::linguistic2::LinguServiceEvents.
+    </P>
+
+    @see    com::sun::star::linguistic2::XLinguServiceManager
+*/
+published interface XLinguServiceEventListener : com::sun::star::lang::XEventListener
+{
+    /**
+        @param aLngSvcEvent
+            the event the listener will be informed about.
+     */
+    void    processLinguServiceEvent(
+        [in] com::sun::star::linguistic2::LinguServiceEvent aLngSvcEvent );
+
+};
+
+
+}; }; }; };
+
+#endif
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/XLinguServiceManager.idl b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/XLinguServiceManager.idl
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..55faa12a9
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+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+#ifndef __com_sun_star_linguistic2_XLinguServiceManager_idl__
+#define __com_sun_star_linguistic2_XLinguServiceManager_idl__
+
+
+#include <com/sun/star/linguistic2/XSpellChecker.idl>
+#include <com/sun/star/linguistic2/XHyphenator.idl>
+#include <com/sun/star/linguistic2/XThesaurus.idl>
+#include <com/sun/star/lang/XEventListener.idl>
+
+
+module com { module sun { module star { module linguistic2 {
+
+/** the basic interface to be used to access linguistic functionality.
+
+    <P>This interface is used to access spell checker, hyphenator, and
+    thesaurus functionality.
+    Additionally, it can query what implementations of those services are
+    available (for specific languages or in general).
+    It can select and query which of those implementations should
+    be used for a specific language.</P>
+
+    <P>
+    For spell checking and thesaurus, the order in the list defines the order
+    of creation/usage of those services.
+    That is, if the first spell checker implementation does not recognize
+    the given word as correct, the second service implementation for that
+    language is created and gets queried. If that one fails, the third one
+    gets created and queried and so on.
+    This chain stops if an implementation reports the word as correct or the
+    end of the list is reached, in which case the word is reported as incorrect.
+    </P>
+
+    <P> For the thesaurus, the behavior is the same when no meaning was found.
+    </P>
+
+    @see    com::sun::star::linguistic2::SpellChecker
+    @see    com::sun::star::linguistic2::Hyphenator
+    @see    com::sun::star::linguistic2::Thesaurus
+*/
+published interface XLinguServiceManager : com::sun::star::uno::XInterface
+{
+    /**
+        @returns
+            the com::sun::star::linguistic2::XSpellChecker
+            interface to be used for spell checking.
+    */
+    com::sun::star::linguistic2::XSpellChecker  getSpellChecker();
+
+    /**
+        @returns
+            the com::sun::star::linguistic2::XHyphenator
+            interface to be used for hyphenation.
+    */
+    com::sun::star::linguistic2::XHyphenator    getHyphenator();
+
+    /**
+        @returns
+            the com::sun::star::linguistic2::XThesaurus
+            interface to be used for thesaurus functionality.
+    */
+    com::sun::star::linguistic2::XThesaurus     getThesaurus();
+
+    /** adds a listener to the list of event listeners.
+
+        <P>The listeners may support one or both of
+        com::sun::star::linguistic2::XDictionaryEventListener
+        and
+        com::sun::star::linguistic2::XLinguServiceEventListener
+        interfaces.
+        </P>
+
+        @returns
+            `TRUE` if the listener was successfully added, `FALSE` otherwise.
+
+        @param xListener
+            the listener to be added.
+    */
+    boolean     addLinguServiceManagerListener(
+        [in] com::sun::star::lang::XEventListener xListener );
+
+    /** removes a listener from the list of event listeners.
+
+        @returns
+            `TRUE` if the listener was successfully removed, `FALSE` otherwise.
+
+        @param xListener
+            the listener to be removed.
+    */
+    boolean     removeLinguServiceManagerListener(
+        [in] com::sun::star::lang::XEventListener xListener );
+
+    /**
+        @returns
+            the list of implementation names of the available services.
+
+        @param aServiceName
+            the name of the service requesting the list of available
+            implementations.
+
+        @param aLocale
+            the language used to query the list of available implementations.
+    */
+    sequence< string >  getAvailableServices(
+        [in] string                         aServiceName,
+        [in] com::sun::star::lang::Locale   aLocale );
+
+    /** sets the list of service implementations to be used for a
+        given service and language.
+
+        @param aServiceName
+            the name of the service to set the list of implementations
+            to be used.
+
+        @param aLocale
+            the language to set the list.
+
+        @param aServiceImplNames
+            the name of the service to set the list.
+    */
+    void                setConfiguredServices(
+        [in] string                         aServiceName,
+        [in] com::sun::star::lang::Locale   aLocale,
+        [in] sequence< string >             aServiceImplNames );
+
+    /** queries the list of service implementations to be used for a
+        given service and language.
+
+        @returns
+            the list of implementation names of the services to be used.
+
+        @param aServiceName
+            the name of the service to get queried.
+
+        @param aLocale
+            the language to get queried.
+    */
+    sequence< string >  getConfiguredServices(
+        [in] string                         aServiceName,
+        [in] com::sun::star::lang::Locale   aLocale );
+
+};
+
+
+}; }; }; };
+
+#endif
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/XLinguServiceManager2.idl b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/XLinguServiceManager2.idl
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..7cb066664
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@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+#ifndef __com_sun_star_linguistic2_XLinguServiceManager2_idl__
+#define __com_sun_star_linguistic2_XLinguServiceManager2_idl__
+
+#include <com/sun/star/lang/XComponent.idl>
+#include <com/sun/star/linguistic2/XLinguServiceManager.idl>
+#include <com/sun/star/linguistic2/XAvailableLocales.idl>
+
+
+module com { module sun { module star { module linguistic2 {
+
+/**
+  Provides a unified interface for the LinguServiceManager service to implement.
+
+  @since LibreOffice 4.0
+*/
+published interface XLinguServiceManager2
+{
+    interface com::sun::star::linguistic2::XLinguServiceManager;
+    interface com::sun::star::linguistic2::XAvailableLocales;
+    interface com::sun::star::lang::XComponent;
+};
+
+
+}; }; }; };
+
+#endif
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/XMeaning.idl b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/XMeaning.idl
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..04fc8dc10
--- /dev/null
+++ b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/XMeaning.idl
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+#ifndef __com_sun_star_linguistic2_XMeaning_idl__
+#define __com_sun_star_linguistic2_XMeaning_idl__
+
+#include <com/sun/star/uno/XInterface.idl>
+
+
+
+module com { module sun { module star { module linguistic2 {
+
+/** one of the possible meanings for a word.
+
+    <P> Represents one of the possible meanings that may be returned from a
+     com::sun::star::linguistic2::XThesaurus::queryMeanings()
+    call and allows for retrieval of its synonyms.
+    </P>
+
+    @see    com::sun::star::linguistic2::XThesaurus
+ */
+published interface XMeaning : com::sun::star::uno::XInterface
+{
+    /**
+         @returns
+             the meaning represented by this object.
+     */
+    string getMeaning();
+
+    /**
+         @returns
+             a sequence of strings where each entry is a synonym of the
+             current objects meaning.
+     */
+    sequence<string> querySynonyms();
+
+};
+
+
+}; }; }; };
+
+#endif
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/XNumberText.idl b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/XNumberText.idl
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..fe373a66c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/XNumberText.idl
@@ -0,0 +1,138 @@
+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+#ifndef __com_sun_star_linguistic2_XNumberText_idl__
+#define __com_sun_star_linguistic2_XNumberText_idl__
+
+#include <com/sun/star/uno/XInterface.idl>
+#include <com/sun/star/lang/Locale.idl>
+#include <com/sun/star/lang/IllegalArgumentException.idl>
+
+module com { module sun { module star { module linguistic2 {
+
+/** This interface allows to spell out numbers and money amounts
+
+    <p> The current set of supported languages is:
+    <ul>
+        <li>af : Afrikaans</li>
+        <li>bg : Bulgarian</li>
+        <li>ca : Catalan</li>
+        <li>cs : Czech</li>
+        <li>da : Danish</li>
+        <li>de : German</li>
+        <li>de-CH : Swiss Standard German</li>
+        <li>de-LI : Swiss Standard German</li>
+        <li>el : Greek</li>
+        <li>en : English</li>
+        <li>en-AU : Australian English</li>
+        <li>en-GB : British English</li>
+        <li>en-IE : Irish English</li>
+        <li>en-NZ : New Zealand English</li>
+        <li>eo : Esperanto</li>
+        <li>es : Spanish</li>
+        <li>et : Estonian</li>
+        <li>fa : Persian (Farsi)</li>
+        <li>fi : Finnish</li>
+        <li>fr : French</li>
+        <li>fr-BE : Belgian French</li>
+        <li>fr-CH : Swiss French</li>
+        <li>ga : Irish</li>
+        <li>gl : Galician</li>
+        <li>he : Hebrew</li>
+        <li>hr : Croatian</li>
+        <li>hu : Hungarian</li>
+        <li>hu-Hung : Old Hungarian</li>
+        <li>id : Indonesian</li>
+        <li>is : Icelandic</li>
+        <li>it : Italian</li>
+        <li>ja : Japanese</li>
+        <li>ko-KP : North-Korean</li>
+        <li>ko-KR : South-Korean</li>
+        <li>lb : Luxembourgish</li>
+        <li>lg : Luganda</li>
+        <li>lt : Lithuanian</li>
+        <li>lv : Latvian</li>
+        <li>mr : Marathi</li>
+        <li>ms : Malay</li>
+        <li>mt : Maltese</li>
+        <li>mul : multiple languages (footnote numbering styles)</li>
+        <li>nb : Bokmål (Norwegian)</li>
+        <li>nl : Dutch</li>
+        <li>nn : Nynorsk (Norwegian)</li>
+        <li>no : Norwegian (Bokmål)</li>
+        <li>pl : Polish</li>
+        <li>pt-BR : Portuguese (Brasilian)</li>
+        <li>pt-PT : Portuguese (Portugal)</li>
+        <li>ro : Romanian</li>
+        <li>Roman : Roman numbers</li>
+        <li>ru : Russian</li>
+        <li>sh : Serbian (written with latin characters)</li>
+        <li>sl : Slovenian</li>
+        <li>sq : Albanian</li>
+        <li>sr : Serbian (written with cyrillic characters) (added with OOo 3.4)</li>
+        <li>Suzhou : Suzhou numerals</li>
+        <li>sv : Swedish</li>
+        <li>th : Thai</li>
+        <li>tr : Turkish</li>
+        <li>uk : Ukrainian</li>
+        <li>vi : Vietnamese</li>
+        <li>zh : Chinese</li>
+    </ul>
+
+    </p>
+
+    @since LibreOffice 6.1
+ */
+interface XNumberText
+{
+    /** spell out numbers and money amounts
+
+        <p>Please note that text argument can contain prefixes separated by space,
+        for example "ordinal" for ordinal numbers, "ordinal-number" for ordinal
+        indicators and ISO 4217 currency codes.
+
+        Language modules list the supported prefixes by the input text "help".</p>
+
+        @returns
+            the result of the number name conversion.
+
+        @param  aText
+            all the text including the part that should converted.
+
+        @param  aLocale
+            the locale for the target language of the number name conversion.
+
+        @see    com::sun::star::lang::Locale
+     */
+    string   getNumberText(
+            [in] string  aText,
+            [in] com::sun::star::lang::Locale aLocale )
+        raises( com::sun::star::lang::IllegalArgumentException );
+
+    /** returns a list of all supported languages.
+    */
+    sequence< com::sun::star::lang::Locale > getAvailableLanguages();
+
+};
+
+}; }; }; };
+
+#endif
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/XPossibleHyphens.idl b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/XPossibleHyphens.idl
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..eb925f6ec
--- /dev/null
+++ b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/XPossibleHyphens.idl
@@ -0,0 +1,84 @@
+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+#ifndef __com_sun_star_linguistic2_XPossibleHyphens_idl__
+#define __com_sun_star_linguistic2_XPossibleHyphens_idl__
+
+#include <com/sun/star/uno/XInterface.idl>
+#include <com/sun/star/lang/Locale.idl>
+
+
+
+module com { module sun { module star { module linguistic2 {
+
+/** Gives information about a word's possible hyphenation points.
+
+     <P>Example: In German pre-spelling-reform you may have the following:
+     getWord:                   Dampfschiffahrt
+     getPossibleHyphens:            Dampf=schiff=fahrt
+     getOrigHyphensPositions:   4, 9
+     That is "Dampfschiffahrt" can be hyphenated after the "pf" (4) and
+     between the double "ff" (9). And if you are going to hyphenate it at
+     position 9 you will get an additional "f" before the hyphen
+     character.</P>
+
+    @see    com::sun::star::linguistic2::XHyphenator
+*/
+published interface XPossibleHyphens : com::sun::star::uno::XInterface
+{
+    /**
+         @returns
+             the word for which the information of possible hyphenation
+             points was obtained.
+    */
+    string getWord();
+
+    /** @returns
+            the language of the hyphenated word.
+
+        @see    com::sun::star::lang::Locale
+    */
+    com::sun::star::lang::Locale getLocale();
+
+    /**
+         @returns
+             a string depicting the word with all hyphen positions
+             which are represented by "=" characters.
+             If there are any alternative spellings, the word will be altered
+             accordingly.
+    */
+    string getPossibleHyphens();
+
+    /**
+         @returns
+             an ascending sequence of numbers where each number is an offset
+             within the original word which denotes a hyphenation
+             position corresponding to one of the hyphens in the
+            string returned by
+            com::sun::star::linguistic2::XPossibleHyphens::getPossibleHyphens().
+    */
+    sequence<short> getHyphenationPositions();
+
+};
+
+
+}; }; }; };
+
+#endif
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/XProofreader.idl b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/XProofreader.idl
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ed918a327
--- /dev/null
+++ b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/XProofreader.idl
@@ -0,0 +1,110 @@
+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+#ifndef __com_sun_star_linguistic2_XProofreader_idl__
+#define __com_sun_star_linguistic2_XProofreader_idl__
+
+#include <com/sun/star/uno/XInterface.idl>
+#include <com/sun/star/lang/IllegalArgumentException.idl>
+#include <com/sun/star/lang/Locale.idl>
+#include <com/sun/star/linguistic2/XSupportedLocales.idl>
+#include <com/sun/star/text/XFlatParagraph.idl>
+#include <com/sun/star/linguistic2/ProofreadingResult.idl>
+#include <com/sun/star/beans/PropertyValue.idl>
+
+
+module com {  module sun {  module star {  module linguistic2 {
+
+/** API for proofreading a text
+
+    @since  OOo 3.0.1
+*/
+interface XProofreader: com::sun::star::linguistic2::XSupportedLocales
+{
+
+    /** whether is the text checked by the spell checker
+
+        @returns true if it is also a spell checker
+    */
+    boolean isSpellChecker();
+
+    /** start checking
+
+        @param  aDocumentIdentifier
+                the Document ID.
+
+        @param  aText
+                the flat text to be checked.
+
+        @param  aLocale
+                Language used in the text.
+
+        @param  nStartOfSentencePosition
+                Start Index of the text.
+
+        @param  nSuggestedBehindEndOfSentencePosition
+                Probable end position of the text.
+
+        @param  aProperties
+                additional properties of the text.
+
+                Currently the following properties may be supported:
+                <table>
+                    <tr>
+                        <td>FieldPositions</td>
+                        <td>sequence&lt;long&gt;</td>
+                        <td>indexes of fields in aText</td>
+                    </tr>
+                    <tr>
+                        <td>FootnotePositions</td>
+                        <td>sequence&lt;long&gt;</td>
+                        <td>indexes of footnotes in aText</td>
+                    </tr>
+                </table>
+
+        @throws IllegalArgumentException
+                when any argument is wrong.
+    */
+    ProofreadingResult doProofreading( [in] string aDocumentIdentifier,
+                            [in] string aText,
+                            [in] com::sun::star::lang::Locale aLocale,
+                            [in] long nStartOfSentencePosition,
+                            [in] long nSuggestedBehindEndOfSentencePosition,
+                            [in] sequence< com::sun::star::beans::PropertyValue > aProperties )
+            raises( com::sun::star::lang::IllegalArgumentException );
+
+    /** disables a specific rule for a given locale.
+
+        <p>If the locale is empty the rule should be ignored for all languages.</p>
+    */
+    void ignoreRule( [in] string aRuleIdentifier,
+                     [in] com::sun::star::lang::Locale aLocale )
+            raises( com::sun::star::lang::IllegalArgumentException );
+
+    /** sets all rules back to their default settings.
+    */
+    void resetIgnoreRules();
+
+};
+
+
+}; }; }; };
+
+#endif
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/XProofreadingIterator.idl b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/XProofreadingIterator.idl
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..063c1d0b3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/XProofreadingIterator.idl
@@ -0,0 +1,109 @@
+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+#ifndef __com_sun_star_linguistic2_XProofreadingIterator_idl__
+#define __com_sun_star_linguistic2_XProofreadingIterator_idl__
+
+#include <com/sun/star/uno/XInterface.idl>
+#include <com/sun/star/lang/IllegalArgumentException.idl>
+#include <com/sun/star/text/XFlatParagraphIteratorProvider.idl>
+#include <com/sun/star/text/XFlatParagraph.idl>
+#include <com/sun/star/lang/Locale.idl>
+#include <com/sun/star/linguistic2/ProofreadingResult.idl>
+
+
+module com {  module sun {  module star {  module linguistic2 {
+
+/** API for the proofreading iterator that mediates between the document and the proofreader.
+
+    @since  OOo 3.0.1
+*/
+interface XProofreadingIterator: com::sun::star::uno::XInterface
+{
+    /** start proofreading and automatically process the whole text
+
+        @param  xDocument
+                the text document.
+
+        @param  xIteratorProvider
+                the flat paragraph iterator provider.
+
+        @throws IllegalArgumentException
+                when any argument is wrong.
+    */
+    void startProofreading( [in] com::sun::star::uno::XInterface xDocument,
+                    [in] com::sun::star::text::XFlatParagraphIteratorProvider xIteratorProvider )
+            raises( com::sun::star::lang::IllegalArgumentException );
+
+    /** start proofreading from a given position
+
+        @param  xDocument
+                the document.
+
+        @param  xFlatParagraph
+                the single flat paragraph to be checked.
+
+        @param  aText
+                the text of the paragraph to be checked.
+
+        @param  aLocale
+                currently unused parameter.
+
+        @param  nStartOfSentencePosition
+                the start position of the current sentence.
+
+        @param  nSuggestedBehindEndOfSentencePosition
+                currently unused parameter.
+
+        @param  nErrorPositionInParagraph
+                the given index.
+
+        @throws IllegalArgumentException
+                when any argument is wrong.
+    */
+
+    ProofreadingResult checkSentenceAtPosition( [in] com::sun::star::uno::XInterface xDocument,
+                    [in] com::sun::star::text::XFlatParagraph xFlatParagraph,
+                    [in] string aText,
+                    [in] com::sun::star::lang::Locale aLocale,
+                    [in] long nStartOfSentencePosition,
+                    [in] long nSuggestedBehindEndOfSentencePosition,
+                    [in] long nErrorPositionInParagraph )
+            raises( com::sun::star::lang::IllegalArgumentException );
+
+    /** clears the list of ignored rules for each proofreader
+    */
+    void resetIgnoreRules();
+
+    /** checks if the given document is currently being checked
+
+        @param  xDocument
+                the document.
+
+        @returns
+                if the document is currently being checked.
+    */
+    boolean isProofreading( [in] com::sun::star::uno::XInterface xDocument );
+};
+
+
+}; }; }; };
+
+#endif
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/XSearchableDictionary.idl b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/XSearchableDictionary.idl
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..a44885412
--- /dev/null
+++ b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/XSearchableDictionary.idl
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+#ifndef __com_sun_star_linguistic2_XSearchableDictionary_idl__
+#define __com_sun_star_linguistic2_XSearchableDictionary_idl__
+
+#include <com/sun/star/linguistic2/XDictionary.idl>
+#include <com/sun/star/linguistic2/XDictionaryEntry.idl>
+
+
+
+module com { module sun { module star { module linguistic2 {
+
+/** This interfaces allows to retrieve suggestions for spell checking from a dictionary.
+
+*/
+interface XSearchableDictionary : com::sun::star::linguistic2::XDictionary
+{
+    /** search for similar entries in the dictionary.
+
+        @param  aWord
+            the word to find similar written entries for.
+
+        @returns
+            the list of similar entries found.
+
+        @see    com::sun::star::linguistic2::XDictionaryEntry
+        @see    com::sun::star::linguistic2::XSearchableDictionaryList
+        @since OOo 3.0.1
+    */
+    sequence< com::sun::star::linguistic2::XDictionaryEntry > searchSimilarEntries( [in] string aWord );
+
+};
+
+
+}; }; }; };
+
+#endif
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/XSearchableDictionaryList.idl b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/XSearchableDictionaryList.idl
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..02ff11cd3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/XSearchableDictionaryList.idl
@@ -0,0 +1,76 @@
+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+#ifndef __com_sun_star_linguistic2_XSearchableDictionaryList_idl__
+#define __com_sun_star_linguistic2_XSearchableDictionaryList_idl__
+
+
+#include <com/sun/star/linguistic2/XDictionaryList.idl>
+#include <com/sun/star/linguistic2/XDictionaryEntry.idl>
+#include <com/sun/star/lang/Locale.idl>
+
+
+
+module com { module sun { module star { module linguistic2 {
+
+/** allows searching for an entry in all dictionaries of the dictionary-list.
+
+    <P> Only active dictionaries of a suitable language will be searched
+    for the entry.
+    The language is suitable if it is the same as the dictionary's language or
+    the dictionary may hold entries of all languages.
+    <P>
+
+    @see com::sun::star::linguistic2::XDictionaryList
+*/
+published interface XSearchableDictionaryList : com::sun::star::linguistic2::XDictionaryList
+{
+    /** looks for an entry for a given word in the list of dictionaries.
+
+        @returns
+            the dictionary entry that was found, `NULL` otherwise.
+
+        @param aWord
+            the word (entry) to be looked for.
+
+        @param aLocale
+            the language of the word to be looked for.
+
+        @param bSearchPosDics
+            `TRUE` if only positive dictionaries should be searched.
+            `FALSE` if only negative dictionaries should be searched.
+
+        @param bSpellEntry
+            `TRUE` if entries for purposes of spell checking are required.
+            `FALSE` if only entries for hyphenation purposes are required.
+*/
+    com::sun::star::linguistic2::XDictionaryEntry   queryDictionaryEntry(
+        [in] string  aWord ,
+        [in] com::sun::star::lang::Locale  aLocale,
+        [in] boolean bSearchPosDics,
+        [in] boolean bSpellEntry );
+
+};
+
+
+}; }; }; };
+
+#endif
+
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/XSetSpellAlternatives.idl b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/XSetSpellAlternatives.idl
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..09aed304f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/XSetSpellAlternatives.idl
@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+#ifndef __com_sun_star_linguistic2_XSetSpellAlternatives_idl__
+#define __com_sun_star_linguistic2_XSetSpellAlternatives_idl__
+
+#include <com/sun/star/uno/XInterface.idl>
+
+
+
+module com { module sun { module star { module linguistic2 {
+
+/**
+    allows to modify the suggestion list returned by a spell checker.
+
+    <P>Basically this is needed to post-add further suggestions while keeping the
+    originally returned reference from the spell checker.
+    E.g. from the user dictionaries.</P>
+
+    @see    com::sun::star::linguistic2::XSpellAlternatives
+*/
+interface XSetSpellAlternatives : com::sun::star::uno::XInterface
+{
+    /**
+        set the list of suggestions to be returned.
+
+        @since  OOo 3.0.1
+    */
+    void setAlternatives( [in] sequence< string > aAlternatives );
+
+    /**
+        set the type of error found.
+
+        @see    com::sun::star::linguistic2::SpellFailure
+        @since  OOo 3.0.1
+    */
+    void setFailureType( [in] short nFailureType );
+
+};
+
+
+}; }; }; };
+
+#endif
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/XSpellAlternatives.idl b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/XSpellAlternatives.idl
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..8f5fd67fa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/XSpellAlternatives.idl
@@ -0,0 +1,81 @@
+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+#ifndef __com_sun_star_linguistic2_XSpellAlternatives_idl__
+#define __com_sun_star_linguistic2_XSpellAlternatives_idl__
+
+#include <com/sun/star/uno/XInterface.idl>
+#include <com/sun/star/lang/Locale.idl>
+
+
+module com { module sun { module star { module linguistic2 {
+
+/** Gives access to the results of failed
+    spell checking attempts and may provide spelling alternatives.
+
+    <P>This is used by the
+    com::sun::star::linguistic2::XSpellChecker::spell()
+    function when the word was not found to be correct.
+    Suggestions for other words to be used may be provided along with
+    a failure-type that may specify why the word was not correct.
+    </P>
+
+    @see    com::sun::star::linguistic2::SpellFailure
+*/
+published interface XSpellAlternatives : com::sun::star::uno::XInterface
+{
+    /**
+         @returns
+             the word that was misspelled.
+     */
+    string getWord();
+
+    /**
+        @returns
+            the Locale which specifies the language of the misspelled word.
+    */
+    com::sun::star::lang::Locale getLocale();
+
+    /**
+        @returns
+            the type (reason) for spell checking to have failed verification.
+
+    @see    com::sun::star::linguistic2::SpellFailure
+    */
+    short getFailureType();
+
+    /**
+        @returns
+            the number of suggested spelling alternatives available.
+    */
+    short getAlternativesCount();
+
+    /**
+         @returns
+            the sequence of suggested spelling alternatives.
+    */
+    sequence<string> getAlternatives();
+
+};
+
+
+}; }; }; };
+
+#endif
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/XSpellChecker.idl b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/XSpellChecker.idl
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..8fb1525a7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/XSpellChecker.idl
@@ -0,0 +1,110 @@
+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+#ifndef __com_sun_star_linguistic2_XSpellChecker_idl__
+#define __com_sun_star_linguistic2_XSpellChecker_idl__
+
+#include <com/sun/star/linguistic2/XSupportedLocales.idl>
+#include <com/sun/star/lang/IllegalArgumentException.idl>
+#include <com/sun/star/linguistic2/XDictionaryList.idl>
+#include <com/sun/star/linguistic2/XSpellAlternatives.idl>
+#include <com/sun/star/beans/PropertyValues.idl>
+
+
+module com { module sun { module star { module linguistic2 {
+
+/** This interface allows for spell checking.
+
+    <P>It is possible to simply check if a word, in a specified language,
+    is correct or additionally, if it was misspelled, some proposals
+    how it might be correctly written.</P>
+
+    @see    com::sun::star::linguistic2::XSupportedLocales
+*/
+published interface XSpellChecker : com::sun::star::linguistic2::XSupportedLocales
+{
+    /** checks if a word is spelled correctly in a given language.
+
+        @returns
+            `TRUE` if the word is spelled correctly using
+             the specified language, `FALSE` otherwise.
+
+        @param  aWord
+            the word to be checked.
+
+        @param aLocale
+            the Locale (language) to be used.
+            If the Locale is empty, the word is spelled correctly by
+            definition.
+
+            <P>If <var>aLocale</var> is not supported an
+            IllegalArgumentException exception is raised.</P>
+
+        @param aProperties
+            provides property values to be used for this function call only.
+            It is usually empty in order to use the default values supplied with
+            the property set.
+
+        @see    com::sun::star::lang::Locale
+    */
+    boolean isValid(
+            [in] string aWord,
+            [in] com::sun::star::lang::Locale aLocale,
+            [in] com::sun::star::beans::PropertyValues aProperties )
+        raises( com::sun::star::lang::IllegalArgumentException );
+
+    /** This method checks if a word is spelled correctly in a given
+        language.
+
+        @returns
+            `NULL` if <var>aWord</var> is spelled correctly using
+             <var>aLocale</var>. Otherwise, an XSpellAlternatives
+             object with information about the reason of failure and, if available,
+             proposals for spelling alternatives will be returned.
+
+        @param  aWord
+            the word to be checked.
+
+        @param aLocale
+            the language to be used.
+
+            <P>If the language is not supported an IllegalArgumentException exception is raised.
+
+        @param aProperties
+            provides property values to be used for this function call only.
+            It is usually empty in order to use the default values supplied with
+            the property set.
+        exception is raised.</P>
+
+        @see    com::sun::star::linguistic2::XSpellAlternatives
+        @see    com::sun::star::lang::Locale
+    */
+    com::sun::star::linguistic2::XSpellAlternatives spell(
+            [in] string aWord,
+            [in] com::sun::star::lang::Locale aLocale,
+            [in] com::sun::star::beans::PropertyValues aProperties )
+        raises( com::sun::star::lang::IllegalArgumentException );
+
+};
+
+
+}; }; }; };
+
+#endif
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/XSpellChecker1.idl b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/XSpellChecker1.idl
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..fe3f45b75
--- /dev/null
+++ b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/XSpellChecker1.idl
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+#ifndef __com_sun_star_linguistic2_XSpellChecker1_idl__
+#define __com_sun_star_linguistic2_XSpellChecker1_idl__
+
+#include <com/sun/star/linguistic2/XSupportedLanguages.idl>
+#include <com/sun/star/lang/IllegalArgumentException.idl>
+#include <com/sun/star/linguistic2/XDictionaryList.idl>
+#include <com/sun/star/linguistic2/XSpellAlternatives.idl>
+#include <com/sun/star/beans/PropertyValues.idl>
+
+
+module com { module sun { module star { module linguistic2 {
+
+/** @deprecated
+*/
+published interface XSpellChecker1 : com::sun::star::linguistic2::XSupportedLanguages
+{
+    boolean isValid(
+            [in] string aWord,
+            [in] short nLanguage,
+            [in] com::sun::star::beans::PropertyValues aProperties )
+        raises( com::sun::star::lang::IllegalArgumentException );
+
+    com::sun::star::linguistic2::XSpellAlternatives spell(
+            [in] string aWord,
+            [in] short nLanguage,
+            [in] com::sun::star::beans::PropertyValues aProperties )
+        raises( com::sun::star::lang::IllegalArgumentException );
+
+};
+
+
+}; }; }; };
+
+#endif
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/XSupportedLanguages.idl b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/XSupportedLanguages.idl
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..de4793045
--- /dev/null
+++ b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/XSupportedLanguages.idl
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+#ifndef __com_sun_star_linguistic2_XSupportedLanguages_idl__
+#define __com_sun_star_linguistic2_XSupportedLanguages_idl__
+
+#include <com/sun/star/uno/XInterface.idl>
+#include <com/sun/star/lang/IllegalArgumentException.idl>
+
+
+
+module com { module sun { module star { module linguistic2 {
+
+/** @deprecated
+*/
+published interface XSupportedLanguages : com::sun::star::uno::XInterface
+{
+    sequence<short> getLanguages();
+
+    boolean hasLanguage( [in] short nLanguage );
+
+};
+
+
+}; }; }; };
+
+#endif
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/XSupportedLocales.idl b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/XSupportedLocales.idl
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..025b5b449
--- /dev/null
+++ b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/XSupportedLocales.idl
@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+#ifndef __com_sun_star_linguistic2_XSupportedLocales_idl__
+#define __com_sun_star_linguistic2_XSupportedLocales_idl__
+
+#include <com/sun/star/uno/XInterface.idl>
+#include <com/sun/star/lang/Locale.idl>
+#include <com/sun/star/lang/IllegalArgumentException.idl>
+
+
+module com { module sun { module star { module linguistic2 {
+
+/** Offers information about which languages are supported by the object.
+
+    <P>This interface has to be implemented by
+    com::sun::star::linguistic2::SpellChecker,
+    com::sun::star::linguistic2::Hyphenator and
+    com::sun::star::linguistic2::Thesaurus
+    implementations in order to be queried for the languages they
+    can use.
+    </P>
+
+    @see    com::sun::star::lang::Locale
+    @see    com::sun::star::uno::XInterface
+*/
+published interface XSupportedLocales : com::sun::star::uno::XInterface
+{
+    /**
+         @returns
+             the sequence of all supported languages.
+    */
+    sequence<com::sun::star::lang::Locale> getLocales();
+
+    /**
+        @param  aLocale
+            specifies the language being checked for support
+             by the object.
+
+         @returns
+             `TRUE` if the language is supported, otherwise `FALSE`.
+    */
+    boolean hasLocale( [in] com::sun::star::lang::Locale aLocale );
+};
+
+
+}; }; }; };
+
+#endif
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/XThesaurus.idl b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/XThesaurus.idl
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..a42fae4a4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/offapi/com/sun/star/linguistic2/XThesaurus.idl
@@ -0,0 +1,77 @@
+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+#ifndef __com_sun_star_linguistic2_XThesaurus_idl__
+#define __com_sun_star_linguistic2_XThesaurus_idl__
+
+#include <com/sun/star/linguistic2/XSupportedLocales.idl>
+#include <com/sun/star/linguistic2/XMeaning.idl>
+#include <com/sun/star/lang/IllegalArgumentException.idl>
+#include <com/sun/star/beans/PropertyValues.idl>
+
+
+module com { module sun { module star { module linguistic2 {
+
+/** allows for the retrieval of possible meanings for a given word and language.
+
+    <P>
+     The meaning of a word is in essence a descriptive text for that word.
+     Each meaning may have several synonyms where a synonym is a word
+     (or small text) with the same or similar meaning.
+    </P>
+
+    @see    com::sun::star::linguistic2::XSupportedLocales
+*/
+published interface XThesaurus : com::sun::star::linguistic2::XSupportedLocales
+{
+    /**
+        @returns
+            a list of meanings for the given word and language.
+
+         @param aTerm
+             the word to query for its meanings.
+
+        @param  aLocale
+            specifies the language of the word.
+
+            <P>If the language is not supported, an
+            com::sun::star::lang::IllegalArgumentException
+            exception is raised.</P>
+
+        @param aProperties
+            provides property values to be used for this function call only.
+            It is usually empty in order to use the default values supplied with
+            the property set.
+
+        @see    com::sun::star::lang::Locale
+        @see    com::sun::star::linguistic2::XMeaning
+    */
+    sequence< com::sun::star::linguistic2::XMeaning > queryMeanings(
+            [in] string aTerm,
+             [in] com::sun::star::lang::Locale aLocale,
+            [in] com::sun::star::beans::PropertyValues aProperties )
+        raises( com::sun::star::lang::IllegalArgumentException );
+
+};
+
+
+}; }; }; };
+
+#endif
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */