Subject: Re: Pspell Support
From: Sam TH (sam@uchicago.edu)
Date: Mon Nov 06 2000 - 15:46:20 CST
On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 04:11:39PM -0500, Dom Lachowicz wrote:
>
> 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.
This could be nicely represented with xml:lang in some portion of the
.abw document, as xml:lang takes as legal value all the country codes
we use. This mechanism, with a little inheritance intelligence, would
do nicely to later implement languages for smaller portions of the
document, as Bill suggests.
On a more general note, the idea of clicking a German button and getting
proper spell checking would be cool beyond belief. I can think of a
number of people who would use this feature that are current MS Word
types (provided we got pspell to work on windows).
sam th
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