Thesaurus / Dictionary integration

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Originally reported by: MatMatMat (Bitbucket: MatMatMat, GitHub: MatMatMat)

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I am using online Thesaurus (http://www.thesaurus.com/ and https://www.openthesaurus.de/) when writing and often a dictionary, too (dict.cc or dict.leo.org or linguee.org). I guess I am not the only person writing searching for words or in need of help with a translation from my native language to english. Could you integrate a dialogue window to directly query some of these sites while writing?

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• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/klembot/twinejs/issue/67

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Original comment by Mark Chatterton (Bitbucket: the_chatto, GitHub: Unknown):

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This would greatly help us pick up the silly spelling mistakes we miss when creating the stories. Any chance we can get the OS spell check support that is available to work within the twine app? We are using the app and not the online version though.

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Original comment by Davdux (Bitbucket: Davdux, GitHub: Davdux):

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Hello All! Any news about this? It could be so useful :-) My very best David

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Original comment by Chris Klimas (Bitbucket: klembot, GitHub: klembot):

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Issue #324 was marked as a duplicate of this issue.

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Original comment by darkhog (Bitbucket: darkhog, GitHub: darkhog):

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How about integrating several of these services and then let you choose?

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Original comment by MatMatMat (Bitbucket: MatMatMat, GitHub: MatMatMat):

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Yes, the issue of "which site to favour" crossed my mind, too. Basically the same issue as with search-engine implementation into your browser... I'd go for open-source / open-data solutions.

What Twine could do is provide an in-text help. If I write something in LibreOffice, select it and use the shortcut for Thesaurus, it digs into OpenThesaurus (I think), provides the results in a popup and let's me click a word to replace the current selection. I could double-click "String" in the above example (if I like it more than Twine ;) and then continue writing. That's a lot more comfortable than jumping between windows and copy/paste acrobatics - especially when trying to copy from a website you get all kind of crap besides the word you want.

Maybe not as easy to integrate as I thought...

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Original comment by Chris Klimas (Bitbucket: klembot, GitHub: klembot):

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My initial reaction is, what could Twine do better than just keeping another window open with those sites? I also hesitate at how we would choose which sites would be selected since they'd be an endorsement of sorts.