On Sat, 5 Feb 2000, Allan Rae wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Feb 2000, Kevin Atkinson wrote:
> At this point the GNOME people will be fuming because they don't have a
> decent generic spell checker interface so either you or they can write a
> wrapper in C for the generic spell-checker library. Of course t
On Fri, 4 Feb 2000, Kevin Atkinson wrote:
> > I've already said you might be better off wrapping ispell with your aspell
> > C++ interface and then once that works worry about a C wrapper.
>
> My Aspell C++ interface using exceptions, and templates. If you can
> compile and use my interface you
On Fri, 4 Feb 2000, Allan Rae wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Feb 2000, Kevin Atkinson wrote:
>
> > On 3 Feb 2000, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote:
>
> > > C is not good for C++ programs. (usable yes, but not good)
> >
> > Do the other developers fell that way?
>
> I've already said you might be better off wrap
On 04-Feb-2000 Allan Rae wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Feb 2000, Kevin Atkinson wrote:
>
>> On 3 Feb 2000, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote:
>> [...]
>> > | modern C++ which means it is not the most portable thing in the
>> > | world.
>> >
>> > Perfect for LyX then.
>>
>> But you want to maintain compatibility
> Do the other developers fell that way?
I answer the question 'do others feel that way':
Yes. C is poison in a C++ project.
Andre'
PS: I wonder why LyX isn't dead ;-)
PPS: Lars, I still don't get your mails because of your ø in the From: header
I believe there is a way to specify encoding fo
On Fri, 4 Feb 2000, Kevin Atkinson wrote:
> On 3 Feb 2000, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote:
> [...]
> > | modern C++ which means it is not the most portable thing in the
> > | world.
> >
> > Perfect for LyX then.
>
> But you want to maintain compatibility with gcc 2.7.2? My library uses
> exceptions
On 3 Feb 2000, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote:
> Kevin Atkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> | Unfortunately my spell checker has two barriers against it being adapted
> | by mainstream Open Soutce programs. 1) It is written in C++ and all two
> | many Open Source projects are still in pure C. 2
Kevin Atkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| Yes most certanly but I want it to be generic enough that ANY project
| can use it. I want to use C as it the most portable and will allow pure C
| projects to use it. Using C++ would defeat the purpose of my goals.
I think you are wrong... just wai
Kevin Atkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| > Well as much as I can see we have aspell support in LyX.
|
| Ok I have not taken a good look at the source but right now it seams
| that you still use ispell/aspell through a pipe interface.
Yes we do, and if I am not mistaken that is a patch we go
Kevin Atkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| Unfortunately my spell checker has two barriers against it being adapted
| by mainstream Open Soutce programs. 1) It is written in C++ and all two
| many Open Source projects are still in pure C. 2) It is written in very
| modern C++ which means it i
On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Allan Rae wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Kevin Atkinson wrote:
> If you try to design your library in C using OO techniques then you will
> probably find it becomes considerably less useful and maintainable than if
> you implemented it as C++ and provided a simple wrapper inter
On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Kevin Atkinson wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen wrote:
[...]
> > If this is what you want, you might want to go elsewhere. The LyX
> > team is a C++ team, and I think we can admit that we do not have
> > the necessary expertice in wrapping C++ in a C sett
On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Juergen Vigna wrote:
> On 02-Feb-2000 Kevin Atkinson wrote:
> >
> > Yes most certanly but I want it to be generic enough that ANY project
> > can use it. I want to use C as it the most portable and will allow pure C
> > projects to use it. Using C++ would defeat the purpose
On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen wrote:
> I confess to being subscribed to the aspell mailing list, so I'm
> probably the person Kevin is referring to.
>
> Regarding a generic reusable spell checker interface:
>
> I think the specs were already completed in the old discussion...
> W
I confess to being subscribed to the aspell mailing list, so I'm
probably the person Kevin is referring to.
Regarding a generic reusable spell checker interface:
I think the specs were already completed in the old discussion...
What remained in that discussion was just the final synthesis
and po
On 02-Feb-2000 Kevin Atkinson wrote:
>
> Yes most certanly but I want it to be generic enough that ANY project
> can use it. I want to use C as it the most portable and will allow pure C
> projects to use it. Using C++ would defeat the purpose of my goals.
>
I guess if you have a nice API in
On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Juergen Vigna wrote:
> On 02-Feb-2000 Kevin Atkinson wrote:
>
> >> That doesn't matter. Whatever you implement you can use that for other
> >> projects too. I don't think we are interested in working on other project
> >> too, as we already have little time for LyX right now
On 02-Feb-2000 Kevin Atkinson wrote:
>> That doesn't matter. Whatever you implement you can use that for other
>> projects too. I don't think we are interested in working on other project
>> too, as we already have little time for LyX right now (at least me ;)
>
> So you are saying you are not
On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Juergen Vigna wrote:
> > The diffrence here is that you are only thinking of LyX I am thinking of
> > the bigger picture here.
> That doesn't matter. Whatever you implement you can use that for other
> projects too. I don't think we are interested in working on other project
>>
>> Well as much as I can see we have aspell support in LyX.
>
> Ok I have not taken a good look at the source but right now it seams
> that you still use ispell/aspell through a pipe interface.
>
Yes that's true!
>
> The diffrence here is that you are only thinking of LyX I am thinking of
Juergen Vigna wrote:
>
> 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
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
understand
Kevin> if you think it is two major of a change.
Hello,
I added your patch to the 1.0 since it looks simple enough. Thanks.
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 04:00:35 +0000
From: Kevin Atkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Aspell and LyX 1.1
Hi. There I was wonderi
> "Kevin" == Kevin Atkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Kevin> Having multiple ispell processes with the same language will
Kevin> cause problems with their personal dictionaries because when
Kevin> ispell saves its personal dictionary it simply writs the
Kevin> information to disk. If the p
>> Kevin Atkinson writes:
KA> "Garst R. Reese" wrote:
>> Kevin Atkinson wrote: > > Having multiple ispell processes with
>> the same language will cause > problems with their personal
>> dictionaries because when ispell saves its > personal dictionary
>> it simply writs the informati
"Garst R. Reese" wrote:
>
> Kevin Atkinson wrote:
> >
> > Having multiple ispell processes with the same language will cause
> > problems with their personal dictionaries because when ispell saves its
> > personal dictionary it simply writs the information to disk. If the
> > personal dictionary
Kevin Atkinson wrote:
>
> Having multiple ispell processes with the same language will cause
> problems with their personal dictionaries because when ispell saves its
> personal dictionary it simply writs the information to disk. If the
> personal dictionary changes sense the process started it
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
>
> > "Kevin" == Kevin Atkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Kevin> Ok. But how do you manage multiple documents. Do you have a
> Kevin> seperate ispell process for each open document or do you load
> Kevin> and unload the word list before spell checking a sp
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
>
> > "Kevin" == Kevin Atkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Kevin> Ok. But how do you manage multiple documents. Do you have a
> Kevin> seperate ispell process for each open document or do you load
> Kevin> and unload the word list before spell checking a sp
> "Kevin" == Kevin Atkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Kevin> Ok. But how do you manage multiple documents. Do you have a
Kevin> seperate ispell process for each open document or do you load
Kevin> and unload the word list before spell checking a specific
Kevin> document. Unloading and lo
>> Kevin Atkinson writes:
KA> Ok. But how do you manage multiple documents. Do you have a
KA> seperate ispell process for each open document or do you load
KA> and unload the word list before spell checking a specific
KA> document. Unloading and loading will work fine if you don't plan
"Lars Gullik Bjønnes" wrote:
>
> >> Kevin Atkinson writes:
> KA> 1) Have a diffrent "ignore all" word list for each document so
> KA> that you won't keep aving to press ignore for special words you
> KA> are not willing to insert into you personal dictiionares.
>
> This is planned, and i
>> Kevin Atkinson writes:
KA> 1) Have a diffrent "ignore all" word list for each document so
KA> that you won't keep aving to press ignore for special words you
KA> are not willing to insert into you personal dictiionares.
This is planned, and is also fairly easy to do for ispell.
KA>
> Kevin> So basically in order to support Aspell in the fullest your
> Kevin> current spell checker code will require a major rewrite.
>
> Anyway, the spellchecker code needs a major rewrite. By `support', do
> you mean a pipe-based interface as we have now, or the use of aspell
> as a library?
> "Kevin" == Kevin Atkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Kevin> Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
>> > "Kevin" == Kevin Atkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
Kevin> Hi. There I was wondering if you are still interested in using
Kevin> Aspell (http://metalab.unc.edu/kevina/aspell) as the new
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
>
> > "Kevin" == Kevin Atkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Kevin> Hi. There I was wondering if you are still interested in using
> Kevin> Aspell (http://metalab.unc.edu/kevina/aspell) as the new LyX
> Kevin> 1.1 spell checker. I would be willing to help you
> "Kevin" == Kevin Atkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Kevin> Hi. There I was wondering if you are still interested in using
Kevin> Aspell (http://metalab.unc.edu/kevina/aspell) as the new LyX
Kevin> 1.1 spell checker. I would be willing to help you out if you
Kevin> would point me in the
Hi. There I was wondering if you are still interested in using Aspell
(http://metalab.unc.edu/kevina/aspell) as the new LyX 1.1 spell checker.
I would be willing to help you out if you would point me in the right
direction.
The reason I ask is because I would like Aspell to incorporated in at
le
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