On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 10:05:29PM -0400, Jason Beaudoin wrote:
I'd like to join in on the fun, and have found myself really craving spell checking support in inkscape. I have poked around sourceforge, archives, and summer of code project information, and it appears that some work on this has been done, but it isn't complete.
Inkscape uses GtkSpell for its spell checking. It seems to work fine [within GtkSpell's limits] in the Text dialog box (Ctrl+Shift+T, Text tab), whereas there's no on-canvas spell checking that I know of.
Looking in the source code, I don't find any relevant mention of `spell' outside of dialogs/text-edit.cpp: i.e. it doesn't look as if there's any start on on-canvas spell checking that's been committed.
where do we need to take this to make it as functional as one would expect?
I suppose start by looking at GtkSpell's documentation, then at its implementation.
Btw, PANGO_UNDERLINE_ERROR and related pango support for underlines may be useful.
pjrm.