[totally random non-sequitor] you might consider the fact that many users will be swithing/upgrading from another word processor. Perhaps you could write a thesaurus interface to other programs, so that i can use the old Corel WordPefect Thesaurus or MS Word thesaurus that i have on my computer?
(of course this is just a totally random suggestion, im not going to file it as a RFE, but it does make some sense to exploit the resources that users may have from their previous word processor/office suite). Alan Horkan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Martin Sevior wrote: > Hi Daniel, > Thanks very much for your interest in us. We now have a working > plugin system that I think you might be able to use quite easily. > > We also have a working theasarus, aiksaurus, written by our website > maintainer Jared Davis. If you look at his plugin code in > > ( abisource cvs module aiksaurus/gtk/abiplugin/aiksauris.cpp) > > I think you'll see it is quite easy to take what you need to interfacce > into abiword via the plugins. Most of the work is done for you. > > Jared had issues with WordNet because it's advertising clause. I'm not > sure if that makes it GPL-compatible? Of course we can only accept GPL > compatible code in abiword. > > I also know that Jared is hard at work on his next generation > Theasurus. I've played with the beta his has hooked up via a web interface > and it is really cool. It's much better than aiksaurus already. > > Maybe you two might want to cooperate? > > Cheers > > Martin > > > On Fri, 23 Nov 2001, Daniel Naber wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > maybe this is interesting for you: > > > > I've added an English thesaurus to KWord, KDE's word processor. I did not > > use the Moby list / AikSaurus (as AbiWord seems to do), but a subset of > > WordNet. I'm confident that this offers better quality, i.e. the number of > > suggested words is lower but they make more sense. Our data file is 800kB > > big and offers synonyms, hypernyms (more general words) and hyponyms (more > > specific words), i.e. it's small enough to be part of the KWord > > distribution. > > > > Currently part of speech information is not shown, i.e. verbs, nouns etc > > are all mixed up. However, this could easily be added, I think it would > > only slightly increase the data file size. > > > > You can check out two screenshots here: > > http://www.danielnaber.de/tmp/ > > > > The source and data is accessible here (to actually try it you need KDE > > and KOffice from CVS): > > http://webcvs.kde.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/koffice/tools/thesaurus/ > > > > Although I don't have time and knowledge to add this to software besides > > KWord I'm willing to answer any questions if you want to include it in > > e.g. AbiWord. > > > > Regards > > Daniel > > > > -- > > http://www.danielnaber.de > > > > > >
