Fun fact, DrRacket already has a spell checker. It's not the best thing
ever, and it also requires you to have a/ispell (or whatever it is)
installed, but it gets the job done for some use cases.
You can get it by going to:
Edit -> Spell check string constants
Edit -> Spell check text (between {} in scribble)
You can tell it's working because if you have a word misspelled in a
drracket string, it will be black instead of green.
Enjoy.
~Leif Andersen
On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 4:08 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Racketeers,
>
> I'm planning to implement a spell checker in DrRacket. I have two main
> concerns I'd like to raise with you all before I get in too deep:
>
> - Is there anyone else currently working on this?
> - I need help understanding what legal and licensing issues there are
> by using the ispell <https://lasr.cs.ucla.edu/geoff/ispell.html> (
> https://lasr.cs.ucla.edu/geoff/ispell.html
> <https://lasr.cs.ucla.edu/geoff/ispell.html> ) source code as a
> reference. I use the word "port" in parenthetically below because I'm
> using details learned from the C source to implement the Racket code.
> Maybe its a matter of asking the maintainer of ispell what to do? I don't
> know.
>
>
> The idea came from the wiki,
>
> > Write a parser for ispell dictionaries. Make DrRacket use it.
> (from https://github.com/racket/racket/wiki/Intro-Projects)
>
> I've made enough progress writing the ispell dictionary parser that I feel
> confident this is a project I can complete with a little help from the
> community.
>
> Here is a 50,000 foot outline of the work I have planned:
>
> 1. Finish writing (porting) the ispell dictionary hash parser
> 2. Write (port) the spelling corrector engine
> 3. Solicit feedback from the Racket community regarding DrRacket
> feature details like the following,
> 1. How should a misspelled word look in DrRacket?
> 2. How does the user want to control the spell checker?
> 3. Should it check word in function names, or just inside strings
> or scribble text blocks?
> 4. etc.
> 4. Implement the DrRacket integration using feedback from (3).
> 5. Put up a PR!
>
> Thanks,
> Jerry
>
>
>
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