Hi Kevin!
On 02-Feb-2000 Kevin Atkinson wrote:
> Back in February of 1999 I posted A proposal to integrate Aspell into
> Lyx. I attached the relevant parts of the conversation as a text file
> for quick review of those who where here and to bring those new to this
> list up to speed.
>
Well as much as I can see we have aspell support in LyX.
[snip]
>
> So, what I would like to now is instead of coming up with a interface
> for just LyX I would like to come up with a pure C interace/library
> which will use aspell if it is available and if not use Ispell.
>
> Are you up to working with me on designing such an interface? I will
> handle the Aspell interface while I will late someone else handle the
> ispell interface. I will also need lots of help because I have no clue
> how to dynamically load code at run time.
As we told you before, we are happy if you make the spellchecker-interface
better. The important thing is that the interface supports ISPELL, as that
is the most spread U*IX spellchecker.
Regarding problems with C++ I guess that we don't need (and don't want)
a C interface/library. LyX 1.1.4 is gone a long way regarding C++ and STL
and can also only be compiled with more modern C++-Compilers so it should
be no problem to use your C++-Interface.
>
> The code you write for this library will need to be under the LGPL as
> also want commercial programs to be able to use it. My eventual goal is
> to have ALL programs use this library instead of either using ispell
> directory through a pipe or writing a spell checker of there own.
>
I guess that most parts of LyX are under LGPL, but well I really don't know
exactly. Surely you can put the modules you add under LGPL :)
Hope I answered some of your questions, it is important that all new things
are added to the cvs-tree of LyX, so if you want to add it you should
download the latest sources via a cvs-interface.
Greets Jürgen
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