Forum OpenACS Development: Re: Spell checking

2: Re: Spell checking (response to 1)

Posted by Ola Hansson on 07/26/03 12:11 PM

You may not know this, but we have been developing a spellchecker for OpenACS that uses Aspell/Ispell as its backend and that is implemented as a datatype/widget combination in the templating system. Thus it can be used either from form builder proper or from its wrapper, ad_form. Our implementation (based on the old aD tool by Jin Choi and Eve Anderson) has dropdown boxes so that you may choose the correct replacement word ...

Here's a demo showing it in its current status:
http://oacs4.polyxena.net/spellchecker/

We are currently seeking funding to finish up this product as you can see in this thread:
https://openacs.org/forums/message-view?message_id=113215

/Ola

3: Re: Spell checking (response to 2)

Posted by Steve Manning on 07/29/03 09:20 PM

Ola

I just tried your demo and I must say its awesome.

One question - I notice your demo is running an American English dictionary (color not colour). Can this be configured directly to pick up its dictionary from whatever dictionaries iSpell has available?

I suppose a fully i18n OACS would allow the user to specify their language in their profile. Alternatively perhaps the dictionaries could be chosen from the Spellcheck/Don't spellcheck dropdown.

- Steve