Spell checking a post?

[Joe911]

Any chance of adding a spell-checker the to the "Preview" output when preparing a post?

I typically typo more than spell wrongly - but a spell checker typcally gets both.

What I would envisage is that potential spelling errors get highlighted on the preview.

Please?

[Tripps]

Joe911 said:

Any chance of adding a spell-checker the to the "Preview" output when preparing a post? I typically typo more than spell wrongly - but a spell checker typcally gets both. What I would envisage is that potential spelling errors get highlighted on the preview.

It's not as easy as you might think, and the software licenses to support a site of this size would cost a bomb.

One of our products is an interactive web spell checker, designed for a 10,000 user site and its been a right royal pain in the

[PetrolTed]

I think I've got access to one (the system that we use fo content management).

I'm tempted to think that it adds to the character of the posts leaving spelling 'as is'.

[Joe911]

Tripps said:

It's not as easy as you might think, and the software licenses to support a site of this size would cost a bomb.

I think there's plenty of quality freeware out there, GNU, or whatever. The engine in ispell (I'm so out of touch, ispell has probably morphed into something else by now) is pretty good.

[Joe911]

PetrolTed said:

I'm tempted to think that it adds to the character of the posts leaving spelling 'as is'.

I know what you mean, but it'd be an option for those that want it - personally I don't want my lack of typing skills to get in the way of things appearing the way I intended (although a spell checker isn't all I'd need for that!)

[BrianTheYank]

Just put the text into word or another program with spellcheck and use that.

[Joe911]

BrianTheYank said:

Just put the text into word or another program with spellcheck and use that.

Yes, clearly, but it's a bit of a pain.

[BrianTheYank]

well, if your gonna write up a big post, just write it in word or something. it only takes a few seconds to load.

[FourWheelDrift]

PetrolTed said:

I'm tempted to think that it adds to the character of the posts leaving spelling 'as is'.

Orlso hellps toe eyedentifi teh eedeots.

[Tripps]

Joe911 said:

Tripps said: It's not as easy as you might think, and the software licenses to support a site of this size would cost a bomb. I think there's plenty of quality freeware out there, GNU, or whatever. The engine in ispell (I'm so out of touch, ispell has probably morphed into something else by now) is pretty good.

Have used both spell and ispell in the past, but they are executable programs rather than libraries available for calling, I'm not aware of anyone doing good spell checkers for free, except for those which simply contain look-ups of a hundred thousand words or so but no intelligent matching, phonetics, typing order re-arranging etc.

But I'd love to be proved wrong as I we could knock the £2000 license of one of our products and keep the profit

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You'd have to start thinking about CGI-style invocation, inbound and outbound pipes and stuff, gets quite complex and more importantly loads the server excessively due to the out-of-process execution.
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[Wowbagger T.I.P]

I am dyslexic and I find that constantly trying to remember how to spell inhibits me from posting, so a spell checker would be good for me.

[Joe911]

Tripps said:

Have used both spell and ispell in the past, but they are executable programs rather than libraries available for calling, I'm not aware of anyone doing good spell checkers for free, except for those which simply contain look-ups of a hundred thousand words or so but no intelligent matching, phonetics, typing order re-arranging etc.

What's the spell-check engine inside Mozilla Thunderbird - that's free code? I can't believe there isn't some free C code that could be knocked into shape quite easily. I'm not saying ispell necessarily is ripe for that, it may be, or it may not.

A qiuck check on sourceforge revealed, for example, "Jazzy - Java Spell Check API", although I have no idea if it's any good.