Custom Spell Checker?
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I wonder if anybody here already wrote some custom spell check for OS
X? Are there any plany by apple to release some for say
German/French/... ? Right now there is only the plain english one...
Max
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I would like to know as well. The fact that the spell checking is only=20=
available in english is really the biggest complaint I have on OS X.
I looked a short while into the matter and found a few things you could=20=
look at.
/System/Services/AppleSpell.service
(or something like that)
I don't really know what this does but I beleive it is related, the only=20=
file that seems to a be dictionnary is named something like bindict or=20=
something like that.
You should however give a look to the documentation about NSSpellServer=20=
it's in the Foundation framework if I remember well . If you are able=20=
to produce something I'd like to know. I am considering building a=20
basic French spell checker eventually (out of WordNet or something alike=20=
that is free).
Yan Laporte
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Le Vendredi 14 septembre 2001, =E0 08:52, Max Horn a =E9crit :
I wonder if anybody here already wrote some custom spell check for OS X?=20=
Are there any plany by apple to release some for say German/French/... ?=20=
Right now there is only the plain english one...
Max
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At 23:41 Uhr -0400 14.09.2001, Yan Laporte wrote:
> I would like to know as well. The fact that the spell checking is
> only available in english is really the biggest complaint I have on
> OS X.
>
> I looked a short while into the matter and found a few things you
> could look at.
>
> /System/Services/AppleSpell.service
> (or something like that)
> I don't really know what this does but I beleive it is related, the
> only file that seems to a be dictionnary is named something like
> bindict or something like that.
>
> You should however give a look to the documentation about
> NSSpellServer it's in the Foundation framework if I remember well .
> If you are able to produce something I'd like to know. I am
> considering building a basic French spell checker eventually (out of
> WordNet or something alike that is free).
Actually, there was a thread on this list not so long ago about
writing a spell checker; but I was mainly interested if there already
was something released in this areas, hopefully maybe even something
free.... seems no :/
So right now I am looking at the possibility of writing a simple
NSSpellServer client that uses ispelll, since there are dictionaries
for that for many many languages already. The idea seems so obvious
and trivial that I thought somebody already did it, and I don't like
uselessly repeating work... but well, seems I am out of luck :)
Oh yeah, french would of course be supported, too:
http://ficus-www.cs.ucla.edu/geoff/ispell-dictionaries.html
The majore drawback is that it does not support UTF8 AFAIK, but well,
it still will be better than a nothing, right? :)
Another possibility would be to base on
http://pspell.sourceforge.net/, which has plugins in turn for ispell
and aspell.
Max
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Hi,
(Not a product announcement):
I've been working on a Cocoa version of Spell Catcher (see
www.spellcatcher.com), a Classic Mac OS (not Carbon, actually not even
Carbon-izable) writing tool published by Casady & Greene for a few
months now, and do have much of the spelling part of the program working
using NSSpellServer. Spell Catcher comes with 9 languages, you can visit
the above web site for more information.
HOWEVER, there's a LOT more to the program than just spell checking, and
until I can figure out how to implement the various global interactive
features (like shorthand glossaries and other "automatic" features like
fixing double capitals, smarten quotes, preventing double spaces etc.) I
can't truly call it a finished product. And there is going to be a
problem (from marketing's point of view) if the spelling features don't
work with Carbon apps.
So don't ask me about release dates. But I am working on it, and trying
to work with Apple to try to figure out how to implement the interactive
stuff (easy on OS 9, near impossible on OS X without some very
low-level, inside information, or unless the Text Services Manager in
10.1 is sufficiently enhanced for use by folks with applications like
mine).
If you have any more questions or comments, feel free to ask.
Evan Gross
(Spell Catcher author)
> From: Max Horn <max...>
> Subject: Custom Spell Checker?
>
> I wonder if anybody here already wrote some custom spell check for OS
> X? Are there any plany by apple to release some for say
> German/French/... ? Right now there is only the plain english one...
>
>
> Max
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> Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 02:06:55 +0200
> To: Yan Laporte <yanl1...>, <macosx-dev...>
> From: Max Horn <max...>
> Subject: Re: Custom Spell Checker?
>
> writing a spell checker; but I was mainly interested if there already
> was something released in this areas, hopefully maybe even something
> free.... seems no :/
>
>
> So right now I am looking at the possibility of writing a simple
> NSSpellServer client that uses ispelll, since there are dictionaries
I'm almost done. Spell checking works in French, German, ... there is
still one bug that keeps it hanging after you klicked the 'learn'.
Using ispell as the engine like I did 9 years ago for the NeXT!
Just a port of the code (nextispell). And yes, it will be free.
I'm hunting that one bug down and I am writing documentation (all
those readmes with the references to the licenses of the
dictionaries ... gotta give credit where credit is asked for - and
due!) and then it should be available for downloads
under http://spell.wit.ch .
forgive me if I am not as quick as many would wish, but my development
time on witspell is constrained to 10pm-2am and then I have to
get up to do "real" work again :(
anyway, shouldn't be too long anymore, a week or two - or three?.
cheers - mo
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On Samstag, September 15, 2001, at 02:52 Uhr, Max Horn wrote:
> I wonder if anybody here already wrote some custom spell check for OS
> X? Are there any plany by apple to release some for say
> German/French/... ? Right now there is only the plain english one...
I wrote a wrapper for ispell a couple of weeks ag which is working
pretty well besides that automatic startup of the spell service doesn't
work.
It also based on ispell so it'll work with a LOT of languages. I was
waiting until 10.1 is out hoping that the startup-bug is fixed.
It'll be free because ispell and the dicts are free, too.
-Stefan -
Since today ObjectFarmSpell 0.9.1 beta is available for German, Spanish,
Italian and French.
This spell checker uses ispell as its spell checking backend (I'd like
to use aspell in the future) and plugs into the NSSpellCheker/Server
API. Its free and source code will be available soon (needs some cleanup
and docu).
Check it out: http://www.objectfarm.org/objectfarmspell
On Saturday, September 15, 2001, at 02:52 AM, Max Horn wrote:
> I wonder if anybody here already wrote some custom spell check for OS
> X? Are there any plany by apple to release some for say
> German/French/... ? Right now there is only the plain english one...
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On Samstag, September 15, 2001, at 02:52 Uhr, Max Horn wrote:
> I wonder if anybody here already wrote some custom spell check for OS
> X? Are there any plany by apple to release some for say
> German/French/... ? Right now there is only the plain english one...
I wrote a wrapper for ispell a couple of weeks ag which is working
pretty well besides that automatic startup of the spell service doesn't
work.
It also based on ispell so it'll work with a LOT of languages. I was
waiting until 10.1 is out hoping that the startup-bug is fixed.
It'll be free because ispell and the dicts are free, too.
-Stefan -
Since today ObjectFarmSpell 0.9.1 beta is available for German, Spanish,
Italian and French.
This spell checker uses ispell as its spell checking backend (I'd like
to use aspell in the future) and plugs into the NSSpellCheker/Server
API. Its free and source code will be available soon (needs some cleanup
and docu).
Check it out: http://www.objectfarm.org/objectfarmspell
On Saturday, September 15, 2001, at 02:52 AM, Max Horn wrote:
> I wonder if anybody here already wrote some custom spell check for OS
> X? Are there any plany by apple to release some for say
> German/French/... ? Right now there is only the plain english one...
