Re: Fly-spelling with multiple dictionaries

[David Reitter]

On 3 Apr 2008, at 22:43, martin rudalics wrote:
> Spell-checking is a typical task for word processors - and they are  
> very
> successful doing this kind of job.  The story of Ispell and Aspell, on
> the other hand, is a rather sad one - IMHO.

Does any of the packages (yours, Peter's) define a clear API to  
integrate other spell-checkers than Ispell/Aspell?

The OS may offer spell-checking facilities, and it would make for  
better integration (and also better spell-checking in my case) if that  
was supported.

Also note that modern text services go beyond spell-checking: grammar  
checking, if done right, can be very helpful, too.  If there was a  
clear API, people could create the necessary components to integrate  
such services.

Such an API should allow the service to spell-check more than one word  
at a time, and it should define text filtering hooks so we don't pass  
each \begin{itemize} to the spell-checker when in latex-mode.  [If  
there is such an API already, can you please point me to its  
documentation?]