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divvun / divvun-api

Web server for language processing
https://divvun.github.io/divvun-api
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Speller support for Overleaf? #10

Open snomos opened 1 year ago

snomos commented 1 year ago

It would be nice to have speller support for our own languages in Overleaf. The Overleaf speller code is here.

The idea would be to add a simple layer that calls our speller API. It needs at least three functions:

snomos commented 1 year ago

An alternative approach would be that of LanguageTool, cf https://www.overleaf.com/blog/635-languagetool-a-free-browser-add-on-to-check-your-grammar-and-spelling

In general, there might be things to learn from LanguageTool, it integrates with a number of tools we don't (yet), cf https://languagetool.org/overleaf. We can't use their code directly though, as most of it is written in Java, cf https://github.com/languagetool-org/languagetool.