From: Stephen Waters (swaters@luy.info)
Date: Sun Mar 23 2003 - 17:58:42 EST
On Sun, 2003-03-23 at 16:13, Jordi Mas wrote:
> En/na Stephen Waters ha escrit:
> > After talking with Dom, I'm thinking the Grammar thing should work like
> > the Spellcheck thing with various engines underneath. We could use the
> > 'en' and 'de' phrase libs though... on Debian they live in
> > /usr/share/diction.
> >
> > Could 'style' be handled via a plugin? It just prints out a bunch of
> > stats about your document. I'm envisioning a "Tools / Statistics..."
> > menu item.
>
> Interesting. I have also to look into this soon. A friend of mine is
> developing a grammar spell checker for the Catalan language and I would like
> to write a plugin to integrate it in Abiword. His grammar spell checker does
> syntactical analysis of the sentences and it uses pattern-matching to detect
> common wrong constructions and it also checks for proper coordination of
> gender (articles, names, etc) and verbs. He is really doing an amazing job.
>
> I have to look into the Akisaurus plugin, but I do not if we the current
> infrastructure I'll be able to implement "auto spellchecking", you know,
> marking automatically the possible grammar errors as the users ends sentences.
Is the issue with Catalan similar to Latin where a word might be spelled
in an acceptable way, but the word form or ending/suffix is incorrect?
E.g., Romani it domum.
That should be: Romani eunt domum.
-s
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