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Modifying the Spellchecker
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| Posted by
| Balerion
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| Thu 12 Apr 2007 12:11 PM (UTC) |
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| Hi,
Has anyone worked to make the LUA-based spellchecker function more like the proprietary spellchecker, in terms of options? Right now it's a bit beyond me, but I figured perhaps others have already tackled it. I know that Nick was kind enough to add within the script a way to tell it to ignore capitalized words, but it'd be very useful if the script had some of the other options from the propiertary spellchecker in it:
Ignore All-Caps words
Ignore words with numbers
Ignore words with mixed-case
Report doubled words (e.g. the the)
Case-sensitive
Ideally, it'd be done in such a way that you could uncomment the ones you want to use. Not sure if that's doable, though.
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| Posted by
| Shaun Biggs
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| Reply #1 on Thu 12 Apr 2007 07:28 PM (UTC) |
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| | That shouldn't be too hard to do. Just let me know how the old spellchecker handled these things, and I'll get to it. I mostly need to know you used to set the flags in the old one. I never use spellcheckers in my mud, although I probably should start with area building I'm doing now. |
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| Posted by
| Balerion
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| Reply #2 on Thu 12 Apr 2007 07:36 PM (UTC) |
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| In the proprietary spellchecker, there was a GUI with checkboxes for the options you wanted ennabled.
Here's a URL to a screenshot:
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2uzeds7 | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Shaun Biggs
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| Reply #3 on Thu 12 Apr 2007 08:24 PM (UTC) |
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| | Well, I can't get that dialog exactly, but I'm sure I can approximate it with some of the provided MUSHclient functions. |
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| Posted by
| Balerion
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| Reply #4 on Thu 12 Apr 2007 08:42 PM (UTC) |
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| That'd be cool. It doesn't really so much if it's done via a GUI or something. For example, in the script you can define IGNORE_CAPITALIZED as true, and the script will then take that into account when evaluating text to be spellchecked. I thought approaching it that way wouldn't be a bad idea. I tried to do an IGNORE_MIXED based on IGNORE_CAPITALIZED, with some help on the regexp, but it doesn't quite seem to work (possibly I've got the REGEXP wrong).
For reference, my try at ignoring mixed case words:
if IGNORE_MIXED then
-- ignore words featuring mixed case
if string.find (word, "^([a-z].*[A-Z])|^(.*([a-z].*[A-Z])|([A-Z].*[a-z]))") then
return word, "ignore"
end -- this round, ignore this word
end -- if IGNORE_MIXED
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| Posted by
| Nick Gammon
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| Reply #5 on Thu 12 Apr 2007 10:01 PM (UTC) |
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| The Lua regular expressions do not support the "or" feature that the MUSHclient ones do. However this will work:
if IGNORE_MIXED then
-- ignore words in mixed case
if string.find (word, "[A-Z]") and
string.find (word, "[a-z]") then
return word, "ignore"
end -- this round, ignore this word
end -- if IGNORE_MIXED
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Ignore words with numbers
It already ignores words which are all numbers.
However if you mean to take something like "route66" as a single word, and then ignore it, you need to do something like this:
First, change the "word" regexp near the start of the spellcheck file from:
-- this is the pattern we use to find "words" in the text to be spell-checked
local pattern = "%a+'?%a+" -- regexp to give us a word with a possible single imbedded quote
to:
-- this is the pattern we use to find "words" in the text to be spell-checked
local pattern = "%a+'?[%a%d]+" -- regexp to give us a word with a possible single imbedded quote
Now it recognises imbedded numbers in a word.
Further down, (where you had the IGNORE_MIXED) stuff, add a test that now drops those words:
-- ignore words with numbers in them
if string.find (word, "%d") then
return word, "ignore"
end -- this round, ignore this word
In other words, the first change makes numbers be considered as part of a word, the second change makes us ignore such words. |
- Nick Gammon
www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com | | Top |
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