Re: style/diction in Abiword

From: Stephen Waters (swaters@luy.info)
Date: Sun Mar 23 2003 - 17:58:42 EST

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    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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