Spellchecker with LanguageTool?

[aadrian]

Hi,

I see that a spellchecker is on the todo list :) .

LanguageTool https://languagetool.org/ https://github.com/languagetool-org/languagetool seems to gain acceptance in many projects and is also Java based.

Any chance considering it for integration?

Thank you.

[JFormDesigner]

Yes, I'm already working on this on the feature/spellchecker branch.

Currently it always checks the whole text (which is slow) and includes markdown characters (which gives bad results). In the future I plan to check only changed paragraphs and exclude markdown characters. Correction suggestion and language download/selection is not yet implemented.

[JFormDesigner]

Made some progress on the feature/spellchecker branch:

• ignore markdown formatting characters in spell checking
• check only paragraphs, lists, block quotes and headings (ignore code blocks, tables, other)
• use wavy lines to highlight spelling problems in editor
• right-click on a problem shows a context menu with problem descriptions and suggested replacements

[aadrian]

@JFormDesigner The "spelling" functionality in that branch just looks great :) .

IMHO it should be merged in master as it is, since it's a huge improvement .

Few tweaks that would also be nice:

• allow to set/change the language
• context menu size with corrections should not be bigger than the window: it's as big as the screen if there are many options.

[DevCharly]

Available in 1.0: https://github.com/JFormDesigner/markdown-writer-fx/releases