Re: [Doxygen-develop] Spell checking

[Chris C. <do...@ke...>]

On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 02:31:11PM +0100, Michael McTernan wrote:

> I was thinking that it would be simple to make a DocVisitor that together
> with something like GNU aspell, could check all the observable text and
> produce warnings for misspelt words.

What's a misspelt (or misspelled) word in a program?  I must have
thousands, just in comments where I refer to variables and functions,
hardware, and things in external specifications.

> Particularly this would be better than extracting the comments from the
> source, and then running a spell checker as things like \a words or \code
> blocks could automatically be skipped.

That would cut down on some, but by no means all.

> Anyone have any comments on this?  If I made such a DocVisitor, would it be
> welcomed?

It sounds like a useful thing if it is optional and doesn't add even
more to the bulk.

Chris C