Re: commit: initial babarism support for ispell

From: Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Oct 10 2002 - 23:05:37 EDT

  • Next message: Jordi Mas: "Re: commit: initial babarism support for ispell"

     --- Jordi Mas <jmas@softcatala.org> wrote:
    > > I have a question. Will barbarism support work
    > > for words that *do* exist in the spellchecking
    > > dictionaries too? In Norwegian we have
    > > several 'foreign' words that *are* included in
    > > the ispell dictionaries, but which have much
    > > better 'non-forreign' alternatives. It would be
    > > nice to have barbarism support for these (perhaps
    > > using a squiggly underline in a different
    colour).
    >
    > Hi Karl,
    >
    > That's not supported right now. I did not want to
    > start changing the colours of the suggested words.
    > Barbarisms are just errors, what you are talking
    > about are really style enhancements.

    This is just wrong. I tried to discuss what was
    needed
    in an open way when Barbarism support first came up.
    We don't need a knee-jerk fix for a single problem.
    We need something flexible that'll be able to be re-
    used in intelligent ways. Surely!

    Grammar errors are just errors too yet they get a
    different colour. I tried to warn that even though
    to you in your language you consider it spelling, that
    others in other languages or other areas fixable by
    the exact same new feature would look at it
    differently
    - this is why I advocated generic squiggle code with
    colours etc settable by the caller.

    (Sorry that was a rant - I'm in a volative mood)

    > Soon you will be able to accomode all the needs for
    > you language that are not covered by the standard
    > stuff in your own special spell checking plugin,
    > since were are going to support spell checking
    > plugins soon.

    We are? Where can I read about it? Don't have IRC
    ability right now if that's where it was discussed.

    ):

    Andrew.

    > Thanks,
    >
    > --
    >
    > Jordi Mas
    > http://www.softcatala.org
    >
    >
    >
    >

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