Subject: Re: Pspell Support
From: Dom Lachowicz (cinamod@hotmail.com)
Date: Mon Nov 06 2000 - 15:11:39 CST
Hi Bill,
>While you're thinking (and possibly acting) on this, I suggest that
>LOCALE be an attribute of text in an Abi document, not much different
>from fonts, sizes, and other treatments. I'd imagine a default LOCALE
>for a document, and then menu items for switching LOCALE, changing the
>LOCALE of a highlighted region, etc. (This is an idea that was
>discussed briefly a few months back with respect to smart quotes with
>different rules for different LOCALEs. Same idea for spelling.)
My idea was much less grand than what you're proposing. I just wanted to
have a tools->languages dialog box that would set the supposed
language/locale for an entire document to something besides english in my
case. There would be one language/locale per document. I wasn't sure whether
I wanted to include this information in the (file version of the) document
or not at this stage either. I basically want to mimic MSWord as much as
possible.
I'd want to say, change the language to "de" and spell-check my german
homework using Pspell, provided I have the german module installed.
This could be extended to other areas, such as smart-quote rules or maybe
list delimiters too. For example, german quotes look like ,,Quoted Text''
and I'm sure that other languages have other rules, so this would be useful.
A beginning " glyph would get re-mapped to ,, for example. On a change, the
entire document would get re-evaluated (and redrawn) using the new language.
Hope that this explains my idea a bit better,
Dom
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