Re: sum1 - r23453 - abiword/trunk/src/wp/impexp/xp

On Fri, 11 Apr 2008, Robert Staudinger wrote:

> [...]
>
> > Oh, I actually meant tools designed specifically to extract source
> > code strings in order to spell-check them :). It might be a task best
> > suited for a custom script, though.
>
> One could extract strings from the binary using the `strings' program
> and pass them on to enchant. Of course you'd get tons of crap, like
> "27pf_Frag_Strux_SectionHdrFtr", not sure how much the spell checker
> heuristics discards (embedded numbers, underscores, camel case, etc.),
> probably quite a few.

Even within abiword there are quite a few requests for improvements to the
spellchecking which relate to escaping things which are not to be
spellchecked.

spell checking URLs
http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4014

multiple custom dictionaries
http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3398
(because for example if you were writing a computer science report you
could have a custom dictionary full of C++ that you didn't want
spellchecked, without needing to mark it is No Proofing.)

spellchecking of uppercase words
http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3594
(the example in the report is a mISTAKE wHERE tHE fIRST lETTER iS nOT
cAPITALISED)

so while custom scripts might be the most expedient solution,
improvements to abiword or the spellchecking infrastructure would go a
long way.

-- 
Alan