--- Alan Horkan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [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).
I don't know if this is even possible, but if these programs have this stuff in self-contained DLLs with known APIs this is the sort of thing that I would love to take a stab at. Do you know of any documentation? Andrew Dunbar. > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > ===== http://linguaphile.sourceforge.net __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com
