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<h3 class="appendixsec">D.2 Other Items</h3>
<p>These items all sound like good ideas however I am not sure when I
will get to implementing them if ever. Words in bold indicate how you
should refer to the item when discussing it with me or others.
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<li>Come up with a plug-in for <samp><span class="command">gEdit</span></samp> the gnome text editor.
<li>Change languages (and thus dictionaries) based on the information in
the actual document.
<li>Come up with a mode that will skip words based on the symbols that
(almost) always surround the word. See <a href="Word-skipping-by-context.html#Word-skipping-by-context">Word skipping by context</a>.
<li>Create two <strong>server modes</strong> for Aspell. One that uses the DICT
protocol and one that uses <samp><span class="command">ispell -a</span></samp> method of communication
via some arbitrary port.
<li>Come up with <strong>thread safe personal dictionaries</strong>.
<li>Use the <strong>Hidden Markov Model</strong> to base the suggestions on not
only the word itself but on the context around the word. See <a href="Hidden-Markov-Model.html#Hidden-Markov-Model">Hidden Markov Model</a>.
<li>Having a way to <strong>email the personal dictionary</strong> and/or
replacement list to a particular address either periodically or when
it grows to a certain size. See <a href="Email-the-Personal-Dictionary.html#Email-the-Personal-Dictionary">Email the Personal Dictionary</a>.
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<p>The following good ideas were found in the Ispell <samp><span class="file">WISHES</span></samp> file
so I thought I would pass them on.
<ul>
<li>Ispell should be smart enough to ignore hyphenation signs, such as the
TeX `<samp><span class="samp">\-</span></samp>' hyphenation indicator.
<li>(Jeff Edmonds) The personal dictionary should be able to remove
certain words from the master dictionary, so that obscure words like
"wether" wouldn't mask favorite typos.
<li>(Jeff Edmonds) It would be wonderful if Ispell could correct inserted
spaces such as "th e" for "the" or even "can not" for "cannot".
<li>Since Ispell has dictionaries available to it, it is conceivable that
it could automatically determine the language of a particular file by
choosing the dictionary that produced the fewest spelling errors on
the first few lines.
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