On Thu, 4 Oct 2012, Stephan Hennig wrote:
Am 03.10.2012 22:15, schrieb Aditya Mahajan:
FWIW, you can also look at how ConTeXt implements the on the fly spell
checking:
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Spellchecker
The implementation details are in lang-wrd.mkiv.
Anyway, thanks for the pointer! I knew the wiki page, but didn't find
the code. Looking at lang-wrd.lua, I can barely see any comments. Is
there any code documentation somewhere?
Not that I know of.
BTW, the ConTeXt way of spell checking is exactly how I wouldn't do it.
A static white list doesn't work too well for, e.g., the German
language.
I personally don't know anything about spell checking, so I won't comment.
But my impression is that the code is meant as a proof of concept only
(and hence the experimental status).
And colouring words doesn't work well in colourful documents,
e.g., presentations. A red wavy line is a quasi standard in text
processors and is much closer to the way errors are marked by hand
(usually by a plain red line in Germany). Well, since underlining is
much harder to implement than text colouring, I'll likely start with the
text colouring, too. :)
Ideally, the user should be able to specify the command used for
highlighting bad words.
Aditya
