Would be interesting to add a spell checking tool to the HTML editor?

Would be interesting to add a spell checking tool to the HTML editor?

by Ludo (Marc Alier) -
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Hi,

In another projects I have embedded a web based spell checking tool (based on GNU Aspell ) to the text editing forms.

If the community finds it useful I would make it for the moodle editing forms.

Tell me what you think about it.

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Re: Would be interesting to add a spell checking tool to the HTML editor?

by Michael Penney -
Hi Mark, YES  that would be a great addition!
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Re: Would be interesting to add a spell checking tool to the HTML editor?

by W Page -
Hi Marc,

I think it would be a very nice addition.  Just three questions,
  • Would it be optional?
  • Could it be turned on or off for,
    • The entire Site?
    • An entire Course
    • Each specific Activity?
  • Could it be for different languages?

WP1
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OK, let's make it so

by Ludo (Marc Alier) -

Hi,

I'll start coding ASAP. I hope it will be available in a few weeks.

Now to answer your questions:

Would it be optional?

Yes, it MUST be optional, because ir requires the ASPELL GNU spell checking tool. Depending on system's performance can be a lille slow.

The mechanism consists in a button added next to the editing memo. when clicked it invokes a popup window that behaves like the MS Word spell checking window ( Higligths the misspelled word on the text, shows a list of suggestions and so on. )

Could it be turned on or off for,
  • The entire Site?
  • An entire Course
  • Each specific Activity?

Well, I don't see wy it can't be done. But actually I don't have much experience in programming in the moogle environment. I supose that there will be no problem in that.

Could it be for different languages?

Yes, but the system administrator will have to install the dictionaries for the ASPELL engine.

For more information on ASPELL

http://aspell.sourceforge.net/

Dictonaries ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/aspell/dict/

The languages currently supported by ASPELL

http://aspell.net/devel-doc/man/Supported.html#Supported

Well that's it. I'll keep you informed.

Marc

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Re: Would be interesting to add a spell checking tool to the HTML editor?

by Jeff Wood -

Marc,

That would be great!

Currently I use "Hot Lingo", but this requires me to view forms in html mode before it will check them.

Jeff

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Re: Would be interesting to add a spell checking tool to the HTML editor?

by George Kao -

Ludo, thank you!  That would be an excellent addition.

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Re: Would be interesting to add a spell checking tool to the HTML editor?

by Charlie Reisinger -
My users would love to see a spell checker in Moodle.

It would be valuable for the course teacher to enable/disable the feature on a course-by-course basis. For example, a grade 7 English may not want her students to be using spell check.
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