Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 17:41:33 +1100 From: jonathan michaels <jon@caamora.com.au> To: FREEBSD-DOC@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: spelling question Message-ID: <19981227174133.B10072@caamora.com.au> In-Reply-To: <19981224113032.U12346@freebie.lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Thu, Dec 24, 1998 at 11:30:32AM %2B1030 References: <19981223105416.A9470@dragon.nuxi.com> <19981224113032.U12346@freebie.lemis.com>
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On Thu, Dec 24, 1998 at 11:30:32AM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Wednesday, 23 December 1998 at 10:54:16 -0800, David O'Brien wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Sorry to spam this list, but I'm hoping some on this list are > > particularly strong in spelling. Is ``corelation'' really an accepted > > spelling? sorry to barge in, like this ... also, merry christmass and happy new year to all at freebsd-doc. i'm using this question to springboard into a topic that ti close to my heart and an answer would hellp alot of people with similar problems. in short, i have dsyslexia, this is a reading 'disoder' that makes it hard to read and even harder to understand what one has read because each dsylexic has their own 'language' that can also change on a daily basis. my question has multiple partsm but the simple version is, is thier a spelling checker that has a 'trainable' spelling checking algotithm ? what i mean is something like .. er um, a spell checker that will take a dsylex'd or speld word and replace it with the correct spelling. most common dsyxlexia centers around letter reversals, pairs particular to teh individual are seemlessly replace. for example i commonly replace "the" with "teh", when i proof my documents i done 'see' the 'teh' i see teh word "t" "h" "e", its a bit hard to explain .. its like i know how 'the' is spelt, that is what i see, quite literaly. i realise, that this is not a good example. most spelling checker take normally dsylexed words and mangle then right out of teh ball park, because most spelling checker alogortihms rely on this one piece of knowledge. this being that misspelt words are mistyped. dsylexic's don't misstype a word they 'miss-see' the letter on the page. pointers, suggestions ... etc, would be most apreciated. desperately, please. regards jonathan -- =============================================================================== Jonathan Michaels PO Box 144, Rosebery, NSW 1445 Australia ===========================================================<jon@caamora.com.au> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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