Re: Fwd: libaccidence development

Dom, eventually ICU can be a pain on windows for instance. That is the
reason I use glib unicode backend in webkit for example. Just wondering
whether one does not want to try using that instead since glib is
already a stock dependency of abiword.

Cheers

Fridrich

On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 18:44 -0400, Dominic Lachowicz wrote:
> FYI
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Dominic Lachowicz <domlachowicz@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 6:44 PM
> Subject: Re: libaccidence development
> To: Gabriel Bakiewicz <gabriel.bakiewicz@gmail.com>
>
>
> Fantastic work, Gabriel! The ICU dependency, in a plugin, is not a
> problem at all. Its BreakIterator is perfect for the job.
>
> Keep up the great work!
> Dom
>
> On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 6:32 PM, Gabriel Bakiewicz
> <gabriel.bakiewicz@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Dom,
> >
> > Last Friday I checked in a working version of user driven grammar checking
> > on Abiword. It's called through the 'Tools' menu and the interface looks
> > pretty much like spell checking. When a mistake is found, the sentence where
> > it appears is shown with the mistake highlighted (it is also selected in the
> > main screen). Some of the checkers give suggestions, that are shown in a
> > list. Most give an explanation on the occurrence found, which is also shown
> > in the interface. The possible actions for the user are to change or ignore
> > it. For now, it only works on unix (gtk).
> >
> > I used ICU lib to break the text into sentences. It uses some rules that
> > avoid false breakings (in between numbers, abbreviations followed by lower
> > case letters, ...) that could mislead the grammar checkers. Is this
> > additional dependency a problem?
> >
> > There are still some issues that need to be fixed or checked more closely
> > (like memory management) and I'll be doing more tests. I'll also work on
> > porting this feature to the other platforms supported by Abiword (windows,
> > mac) and adding background checking.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Gabriel Bakiewicz
> >
> > 2010/8/9 Gabriel Bakiewicz <gabriel.bakiewicz@gmail.com>
> >>
> >> Branch created: http://svn.abisource.com/abiword/branches/grammar/
> >>
> >> I will start commiting some code during the week and announce when I have
> >> a working version.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>
> >> Gabriel
> >>
> >> 2010/7/27 Dominic Lachowicz <domlachowicz@gmail.com>
> >>>
> >>> Hi Gabriel,
> >>>
> >>> Yes, that sounds fantastic. Please create a branch to work on this
> >>> development!
> >>>
> >>> Cheers,
> >>> Dom
> >>>
> >>> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 7:49 AM, Gabriel Bakiewicz
> >>> <gabriel.bakiewicz@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> > Hi Dom,
> >>> >
> >>> > I've been working recently on libaccidence, the api/abi for grammar
> >>> > checking, heavily based on Enchant, that I started on 2007 SoC with
> >>> > your help. I checked
> >>> > in some code last week and I plan to finish what will be version 0.2
> >>> > next
> >>> > week.
> >>> > Changes for this version include:
> >>> > - improved memory management
> >>> > - windows build (under cygwin or msys/mingw)
> >>> > - new backend for An Gramadoir (checker for Irish language)
> >>> > - code cleanup
> >>> >
> >>> > I'm also working on the integration with Abiword against current trunk.
> >>> > I
> >>> > wondered if doing it like the spell checking is the best way (or maybe
> >>> > a
> >>> > plugin?). I would like to know if I can have a branch to develop this
> >>> > functionality and make it stable.
> >>> >
> >>> > Cheers,
> >>> >
> >>> > Gabriel Bakiewicz
> >>> >
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> --
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> >>> Holmes
> >>
> >
> >
>
>
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Received on Tue Aug 31 06:11:16 2010