The spell checking, I believe, is exposed through the services system. I agree with Yen-Ju that we need offline dictionary access. If you look at the way OS X does this, dictionary and spell checking are both handled as services, with a standard UI added to text views (new ones could possibly be done as categories on NSTextView by Étoilé?).
In principle, I think it's a great idea. In practice, there are a few issues. I see a few differences between a spelling word list and a dictionary: 1) Users add to their own wordlist. 2) Wordlists usually contain some strange markup to indicate permutations (e.g. plurals). 3) Dictionaries have definitions. In some cases, it might be possible to share data between the two, although I am not certain (the kind of format used in a wordlist is generally more suited to fuzzy searching than a dictionary, but it might not matter). I would suggest that adding the ability to support multiple data sources would be a good feature for a dictionary. I believe dict.org has an out-of-copyright version of MW you can download, which would be okay for offline use, and connecting to something like Wiktionary for online use might also be nice. _______________________________________________ Etoile-discuss mailing list Etoile-discuss@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-discuss
