hi arsen, hi all, for quite a long time i have only been reading messages in this list. now suddenly i find it is time to write. ;-)
On Monday 18 July 2005 22:35, Arsen Kostenko wrote: > Hello list! > > As you might see, I am a newbie here. It eventually happened so, I was > accepted into Google SoC program > (http://code.google.com/summerofcode.html, > http://udu.wiki.ubuntu.com/GoogleSocApplications ). My project is > SpellChecking bounty for Ubuntu Linux ( > http://udu.wiki.ubuntu.com/SpellChecking ). The task is to make a > single spell checking system instead of three (Ispell, Aspell and > MySpell). i think this is a very good thing. letting the user (and/or distribution) chose makes things much more complicated than they need to be. quite some time ago i've been working on kde spell checking a bit. at that time i wanted to integrate aspell very closely into kde. it didn't work out well, because no final decision could be made in this direction. not even for koffice alone. > After some negotiations with a mentor of mine, Aspell was > chosen as the core for the future single spell checking system. i very much welcome this decision, too. imho aspell is very suited for a general spell-checking backen. ispell, being a command-line utility and not a lib is extremely slow when it comes to only marking bad words. (at least i had found no way to make ispell stop making suggestions). in modern gui applications marking misspelled words is one of the main and most important tasks of a spell-checker. and it has to run smoothly without hogging the cpu. there is also another thing i was thinking about: feedback to the dictionary maintainer. wouldn't it be cool to have some standard procedure to send the user word list to the dictionary maintainer of some language. in a system that is well thought-through words could be added to the main dictionary semi-automatically if some number of different sources have the same word in their user word list. i don't know what dictionary maintainers actually think about this; i just want to share my ideas. this might also be beyond the scope of you "summer of code" project. > Since I am quite new to Aspell as well, I would be glad if Aspell > gurus helped me with advice. > > Probably the most challenging part is developing MySpell compatibility > interface in Aspell. By this time it would be helpful to learn whether > task of this kind has ever been carried by Aspell developers. In case > the answer is 'yes', then whom should I address? In case the answer is > 'no', then are there any objections/considerations on this idea? sorry, i can't really answer here. imho it should be doable. do you want backend (dictionary) and/or frontend compatibility? well, i am sure some "guru" will know everything you need. greetings and good luck, - till busch _______________________________________________ Aspell-devel mailing list Aspell-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/aspell-devel
