Am 27.01.2011 um 15:16 schrieb Walter: >> This sounds ugly. Is there any similarity between spell checking APIs? Is >> there a cross platform, spell checking library unification / abstraction >> layer >> available? Would it be worth developing one? How difficult is it to detect >> known dictionaries and spell checkers on a cross-platform basis? > > Possible answer: http://www.abisource.com/projects/enchant/
Unfortunately enchant has big drawbacks: * missing language variety support * not available for LyX on mac And in fact it is only a wrapper around existing spell checkers - just as LyX is :-) Stephan
