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From: | David Reitter |
Subject: | Re: Fly-spelling with multiple dictionaries |
Date: | Sat, 5 Apr 2008 08:34:44 +0100 |
On 4 Apr 2008, at 10:47, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
Perhaps someone could implement something similar in Emacs Lisp?
Such services ought to be provided by the host operating system, or external (plugin) libraries, just like with aspell. A spell-checking package in Emacs would handle the UI, and the UI for spell-checking and style- and grammar-checking is very similar. Thus, providing a proper API would allow people to interface all sorts of checking functionality.
To give an example, I just wrote a 175+ page document over the last months, and I implemented two things (very simple hacks):
- re-order sentences by length (in words), so the longest ones can be evaluated and simplified manually - terminology checker: e.g., ensure that compound nouns are spelled consistently (e.g., hyphenated) throughout the document
Also, functions like checking subject-verb agreement would have come in handy. Current parsing technology can most certainly do something as simple as that.
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