Fwd: libaccidence development

FYI

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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
>>> >
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> "I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization." --  Oliver Wendell
>>> Holmes
>>
>
>

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