Spell Checker

[Sivakatirswami]

Aloha, Derek...

Any news on your spellchecker?

I need a cross-platform one that does the following:

1) uses some standard English dictionary-word list (if you can hack  
and parse the one from OSX Tiger... it's very good.)

2) has a "special" dictionary that is "locked" i.e. the user cannot  
add words to it.

Context: I've got about 20 people in remote locations working on  
documents which are uploaded to our server here. There is no spell  
checking now. They cut and paste the text out to MSword and paste  
back, in [nasty! I get strange chars introduced from this operation...]

But we have a lot of foreign, Sanskrit, Tamil, "proprietary" (company  
names place names etc) words that need to be added to a "Special  
Dictionary"

The spellchecker wants to be able to propose a list (a simple  
algorithm will do.. even a list of words starting with the same first  
letter..) that is drawn from both the standard dictionary and the  
user dictionary.

The user dictionary gets updated on line.  (I can do all this part)  
if the version number changes when someone goes to work, my Rev app  
alerts them to download a new user dictionary... if they want to add  
words to that dictionary, they have to email me suggestions.. (I  
can't have 20 different people adding words locally... needs to be a  
central list...)

Before I start working on this... I looked on the list and see you  
have plans already in motion...

Thanks!

Sivakatirswami



On Jul 12, 2005, at 5:17 AM, Derek Bump wrote:

> Bob Earp wrote:
>
>> Is there any chance you could share this with the rest of us.  To  
>> be able to add a spell checker to Rev would be quite fantastic  
>> given my spelling and typing dyslexia ;-)
>>
>
> I'm working hard on completing the Spell Checker Plugin.  I wanted  
> to have something by this morning, but work was busy last night so  
> I didn't have a lot of free time (I'm in law enforcement).
>
> Rest assured though, I will put it up for everyone to  
> download...the question then is do I charge a fee? :)  (just  
> kidding about the fee)
>
>
> Derek Bump
> Dreamscape Software
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