On Thu, 2001-12-13 at 04:47, Benoit Rouits wrote: > Well, > I am interested in the "dict" protocol described > in RFC 2229 at ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2229.txt > you can test it at http://www.dict.org > It can give you definitions but also similar written words by > using "Match words within Levenshtein disance one" (in advanced query) > and also phoneticaly similar words by using "SOUNDEX algorithm" > (advanced query). > Well, it's very interesting and i plan to read the RFC and could > eventually > work on making a plug-in. > So it would be good to talk about it to the dev ML, (it's CCed) > > The only problem (currently) is that there are only american and english > online dictionnaries that use the dict protocol. > > Any other ideas ? >
AbiWord already has several dictionary plugins: Gnome has a GDict plugin There is a URLDictionary plugin for any platform Note that these are more of "webster's" dictionaries - i.e. they contain similar words, definitions, etc... Ispell dictionaries are an entirely separate beast, and will only tell you if your word is misspelled or spelled correctly. Automagically updating ispell hash files is insanely difficult for a number of reasons. We could put up a webpage with a list of known dictionary distributors, but it's unlikely that we'll have an auto-download/update feature, at least in the near future. Thanks, Dom
