Re: Spellcheck package
| From: | Justin Patrin | Date: | Wed, 13 Oct 2004 00:04:06 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Spellcheck package | ||
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On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 19:28:51 -0400, Nikolas 'Atrus' Coukouma
<atrus@atrus.org> wrote:
> I've been working on wrapping spellchecking functions in objects. The
> obvious advantage is not having to remember calls to *_free functions.
>
> I'm also planning to add functions for getting suggestions for whole
> strings (space-delimited words). It would return an associative array
> of suggestions with the misspelled words as keys and arrays of
> suggestions as values. Additionally, I think a function for
> 'highlighting' misspelled words by inserting stings before and after
> each misspelled word (i.e. '<b>' before and '</b>' after).
> Suggestions
> for other commonly useful functions are welcome.
>
> I'm currently basing the design on libenchant's interface. For
> convenience, it'll have a pspell (actually aspell) backend as a
> default, which can be switched for enchant, if it's available.
>
> Does this seem like a good addition to PEAR?
>
> Nikolas 'Atrus' Coukouma
>
Sounds useful to me.
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