[TxMt] Re: Spell checking using Google

[Hans-Jörg Bibiko]

On 03.05.2007, at 21:42, Jacob Rus wrote:

> Allan Odgaard wrote:
>>> - If a text is selected meaning at least one space is in it the  
>>> command only returns a snippet of misspelled word without any  
>>> changes. After that you can navigate with TAB through the snippet  
>>> (misspelled words) and if you find a really misspelled word you  
>>> can invoke the command again and so forth.
>> Yes, this is probably a desired behavior most of the time.
>
> Hmm, two points about "invoke the command again and so forth."
>
> 1. I believe google's spellcheck takes the context of the word into  
> account when deciding what the correct word is.  So popping up a  
> list only for particular words is probably not the greatest idea.
>

Well, I believe it should but up to now I couldn't find an example  
for such a context spell checking behaviour. If you find such a  
behaviour, please let it me know.

It seems to me that Google's suggestions are based on the following:
If the word is not in the Google's corpus it will allow exact one  
operation on it, meaning deletion, inserting, or replacing of one  
character to get a word which is in the corpus. The output is sorted  
according to these operations, I guess.

> 2. As soon as a command is run on one of the tab stop misspelled  
> words, all the other snippet tab stops are lost.
Not in this case. The script distinguishes whether a text is sent or  
a single word. If text - output a snippet; if word - output replace  
text. By doing so it won't destroy the other snippet tab stops.

Hans