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Oliver Sahr
Nov 11, 2015, 1:57:22 AM11/11/15
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Hello,
I love the internal spell checker of ToDoList, but it needs some enhancements:
Greetings
OLLI
I love the internal spell checker of ToDoList, but it needs some enhancements:
- allow to ignore one word completely (at the moment I have to skip the same word several times)
- allow to add words to the dictionary
Greetings
OLLI
Tony G
Nov 11, 2015, 5:11:47 PM11/11/15
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I think this might be more of a wiki enhancement than a product enhancement. I haven't gotten around to documenting how the spell check works, but only because I don't really understand it myself yet - and that's because I don't use it.
The following are info and links that are related to the spell checker used in ToDoList. I'm hoping folks can help me by providing other links and detail that can be used to pull together a base of information for a nice wiki page on this topic.
The MySpellCheck.dll used in ToDoList comes from MySpell, a utility created back in 2002. Rather than extending functionality for this, the next best step might be to replace it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MySpell
https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Writer/HallOfFame ... MySpell extended to become Hunspell
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunspell
http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/hunspell/files/Hunspell/Documentation/ ... summary and lower-level info
The PDF docs on that page are probably the best available.
http://www.openoffice.org/lingucomponent/ ... how to create dictionaries
http://fmg-www.cs.ucla.edu/geoff/ispell-dictionaries.html ... MySpell is based on ISpell and a Lot of dicts are here, including recent updates
So.. here is ISpell: http://fmg-www.cs.ucla.edu/geoff/ispell.html
http://fmg-www.cs.ucla.edu/geoff/ispell-man.html ... "man page" describes ispell command line and a lot of insight into features
But that's only the primary man page, the complete set of man docs come with the ispell distribution package, which should be available on any Unix system where it's installed. I downloaded the source for ispell but did not find the man pages in there, though there are a number of dicts modified as recently as Feb/2015.
This is an ISpell Affix Table, with a lot of good doc notes: http://www.openoffice.org/lingucomponent/english.aff
This is a MySpell Affix table, similar but very different: http://www.openoffice.org/lingucomponent/en_US.aff
Great notes on the structure of the MySpell Affix file: http://www.openoffice.org/lingucomponent/affix.readme
As to adding words to your local files, there are various utilities in Perl or PHP or .NET, etc which use other libraries for maintaining these files. A UDT can be created which pops up a box to enter a word that should be added to the dictionary. I have no idea at the moment about the details for how this would be done, but as a developer I can mentally connect the dots, and I know it's possible. With more info here perhaps we can come up with such a tool outside of ToDoList which can be used by anyone who is looking for this functionality.
The following are info and links that are related to the spell checker used in ToDoList. I'm hoping folks can help me by providing other links and detail that can be used to pull together a base of information for a nice wiki page on this topic.
The MySpellCheck.dll used in ToDoList comes from MySpell, a utility created back in 2002. Rather than extending functionality for this, the next best step might be to replace it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MySpell
https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Writer/HallOfFame ... MySpell extended to become Hunspell
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunspell
http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/hunspell/files/Hunspell/Documentation/ ... summary and lower-level info
The PDF docs on that page are probably the best available.
http://www.openoffice.org/lingucomponent/ ... how to create dictionaries
http://fmg-www.cs.ucla.edu/geoff/ispell-dictionaries.html ... MySpell is based on ISpell and a Lot of dicts are here, including recent updates
So.. here is ISpell: http://fmg-www.cs.ucla.edu/geoff/ispell.html
http://fmg-www.cs.ucla.edu/geoff/ispell-man.html ... "man page" describes ispell command line and a lot of insight into features
But that's only the primary man page, the complete set of man docs come with the ispell distribution package, which should be available on any Unix system where it's installed. I downloaded the source for ispell but did not find the man pages in there, though there are a number of dicts modified as recently as Feb/2015.
This is an ISpell Affix Table, with a lot of good doc notes: http://www.openoffice.org/lingucomponent/english.aff
This is a MySpell Affix table, similar but very different: http://www.openoffice.org/lingucomponent/en_US.aff
Great notes on the structure of the MySpell Affix file: http://www.openoffice.org/lingucomponent/affix.readme
As to adding words to your local files, there are various utilities in Perl or PHP or .NET, etc which use other libraries for maintaining these files. A UDT can be created which pops up a box to enter a word that should be added to the dictionary. I have no idea at the moment about the details for how this would be done, but as a developer I can mentally connect the dots, and I know it's possible. With more info here perhaps we can come up with such a tool outside of ToDoList which can be used by anyone who is looking for this functionality.
Daniel Godson
Nov 11, 2015, 6:27:29 PM11/11/15
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Hi Olli
Because I have just enabled (in 7.0.7) Windows 8's and 10's native inline spell-checking of the comments which offers these options, it is very unlikely that I will try to retrofit these to the existing spell checking.
Sorry.
Dan
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Tony G
Nov 11, 2015, 7:50:11 PM11/11/15
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I missed that one. So I guess the info about MySpell won't go much further. :)
Dan, is there anything that we can say about how and why ToDoList makes use of the Windows spellcheck, or any more info about how to use it?
About the default Windows spell checker...
http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/13128-spell-checking-turn-off-windows-8-a.html
http://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/25994-spell-checking-dictionary-add-remove-words-windows-10-a.html
And as mentioned in another thread, I use PhraseExpress which does spell checking and auto-correction on the fly, and it's very easy to get it to learn your common vocabulary and to modify it to change or not change whatever you wish.
T
Dan, is there anything that we can say about how and why ToDoList makes use of the Windows spellcheck, or any more info about how to use it?
About the default Windows spell checker...
http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/13128-spell-checking-turn-off-windows-8-a.html
http://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/25994-spell-checking-dictionary-add-remove-words-windows-10-a.html
And as mentioned in another thread, I use PhraseExpress which does spell checking and auto-correction on the fly, and it's very easy to get it to learn your common vocabulary and to modify it to change or not change whatever you wish.
T
On Wednesday, November 11, 2015 at 3:27:29 PM UTC-8, .dan.g. wrote:
Hi OlliBecause I have just enabled (in 7.0.7) Windows 8's and 10's native inline spell-checking of the comments which offers these options, it is very unlikely that I will try to retrofit these to the existing spell checking.Sorry.Dan
Rgds, .dan.g.
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