Re: [Hunspell-devel] Request for very useful feature: rare words

[Németh L. <ne...@op...>]

Hi,

You can add arbitrary fields to the dictionary words, for example,
field "fq" could be the frequency of the words in a Hunspell
dictionary (also the field "sg" could be the suggestion for a more
frequent word). The planned future version of the upcoming lightweight
grammar checker implementation will support similar rules in the
language data files:

morph("fq") == "rare" -> morph("sg")  # rare word, possible typo?

condition on the actual word  -> suggestion(s) # message in the
grammar checker menu

--- dic: ----
foo fq:rare sg:fox

Grammar checker API of OpenOffice.org has several advantages, for
example, you can ignore arbitrary rules under proofreading.

Best regards,
László


2009/3/27 R.J. Baars <r.j...@xs...>:
> I support this feature request as being important.
>
> Ruud
>
>>
>> I have been discussing the Dutch word list with the people that maintain
>> it.  Problem is that there are quite a few words that are valid Dutch
>> words, but at the same time common errors for often used words.
>> They would like to remove the words from the list, but that has the
>> problem of flagging words as an error while they are actually valid
>> words.  This lowers the confidence that users have in the word list.
>>
>> The solution I made in Vim is to add a flag that indicates rare words.
>> The flag is obviously called RARE.
>>
>> This is very useful.  The first step to support it is to allow it in the
>> .aff file.  Dictionary maintainers can the start using it.  The next
>> step is to handle the words differently.  How is up to the UI.  The most
>> common method is to use a different highlight color.
>>
>> All this is very easy to implement, it's just a matter of small changes
>> to the documentation, code and interfaces.
>>
>>
>> This is the Vim documentation for the flag:
>>
>> RARE WORDS                                            *spell-RARE*
>>
>> In the affix file a RARE line can be used to define the affix name used
>> for
>> rare words.  Example:
>>
>>       RARE ? ~
>>
>> Rare words are highlighted differently from bad words.  This is to be used
>> for
>> words that are correct for the language, but are hardly ever used and
>> could be
>> a typing mistake anyway.  When the same word is found as good it won't be
>> highlighted as rare.
>>
>> This flag can also be used on an affix, so that a basic word is not rare
>> but
>> the basic word plus affix is rare |spell-affix-flags|.  However, if the
>> word
>> also appears as a good word in another way (e.g., in another region) it
>> won't
>> be marked as rare.
>>
>>
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