From: Martin Sevior (msevior@physics.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sat Mar 22 2003 - 20:41:22 EST
On Sun, 23 Mar 2003, Alan Horkan wrote:
>
> On 22 Mar 2003, Stephen Waters wrote:
>
> > Date: 22 Mar 2003 15:20:39 -0600
> > From: Stephen Waters <swaters@luy.info>
> > To: abiword-dev@abisource.com
> > Subject: style/diction in Abiword
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm considering looking into the style/diction plugin POW. However, I'm
> > a Perl hack and haven't done any C/C++ in years and years.
If you restrict yourself to running the plugin over selected text you can
use the aiksaurus plugin as an example of how to extract text from
abiword. After you have the text send it though whatever perl magic you
want on the plugin side. However you'll need to do the perl/C/CPP
interfacing magic yourself. If you like you could write the code in
python. We already have a python plugin that allows abiword to be
extended with python scripts. Since abiword is a GUI application though
you'll need to display the results graphically. I know the python/gtk2
binding are excellent, I'm not sure of the quality of the perl/gtk2
bindings.
Finally we're trying hard to following the GNOME HIG guidelines so please
read that doc before designing your GUI.
cheers
Martin
>
> I am probably not the best person to answer this but
> Go for it!
>
> No on else is working on the suggested style/diction plugins, so you can
> work at your own pace and as independantly as you would like.
>
> I am fairly sure Dom did some infrastucture work for a grammar checker and
> the developers will help you along with your questions where they can.
>
> If you want something else to start with I am sure we can think of
> something more to you liking. Perhaps you would like to put together some
> Perl scripts for Abiword? (in case you did not already know abiword
> can be built to support Perl scripting). If you see a feature request in
> Bugzilla that interests you then give it a try.
> http://bugzilla.abisource.com
>
> > Do you think this is too hard for a beginner?
>
> Probably not too hard, but then what do i know. The reason i suggested it
> as a POW was because it is fairly seperate and allows you to work at your
> own pace.
>
> > Do you have any advice?
>
> try your best,
> talk to the developers on IRC (although it is a little desolate at the
> weekends sometimes)
> irc.gnome.org #abiword
>
> > Is there an example of a related plugin?
>
> the aiksaurus (thesaurus) plugin, might be worth looking at, i dunno.
>
> Good luck, thanks for getting involved.
>
> Sincerley
>
> Alan Horkan
> http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/
>
>
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