Hi! On Friday 12 January 2007 07:36, Jacob R Rideout wrote: > Hello, > > I'm working on the next generation linguistic framework and set of > tools for KDE4. We are calling this collection of classes Sonnet. I'm > joining this list to see what collaboration can be had between our > efforts. We are already working with the developers of Abiword. > > More information on Sonnet is available here: > http://blog.jacobrideout.net/2006/12/how-is-sonnet-stacking-up.html > > Regards, > Jacob
I at least would very much like to see collaboration between OpenOffice.org, KDE and other projects on this area. We in the Finnish linguistic tools project (Voikko) have produced a working spellchecker and hyphenator, but integrating them to the various different applications has been a pain because almost every application uses different backend: - OpenOffice.org has its own API for spellchecker and hyphenator extensions, and we support OOo by providing such extension. - Lots of applications use ispell, so we have to offer ispell emulation for them. - Mozilla products do not allow using external spellcheckers in a clean way. Andris Pavenis has written an extension that works around this, and has also provided a patch for Mozilla people to allow their spellchecking framework use multiple backends simultaneously (as OOo does). But the API and the extension are again Mozilla-specific. - We have a plugin for Enchant in the Enchant CVS. I am _very_ happy to see that KDE, and apparently Gnome, are going to be using it in the future. This one is definitely my favorite solution as it was both easy to implement and will work in multiple applications. Finnish grammar and style checking are things that I will be looking at more closely later this year. We have already collected some preliminary data about common erratic phrases. It may be that some of the existing grammar checking tools will be sufficient for us, but nevertheless it would be very nice if having it supported in OOo and other applications would not be as messy as it was with the spellchecker. I will be following the development of Elixir closely and try to provide feedback if there is any need. I did not see hyphenation mentioned in your description of Sonnet. Maybe hyphenation plugins could be supported as well, although I am not sure if there are many free applications apart from OpenOffice.org and LaTeX that actually support automatic hyphenation at all. Anyway, if there will some day be hyphenation support in Sonnet, I will try to write a Finnish plugin for it. Harri --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
