March 04, 2003

MTSpeling

Movable Type plugin to spell-check entries and comments

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MTSpeling Plugin

Excerpt: http://rescomp.stanford.edu/~akosut/software/mtspeling.html...
Weblog: Tribblescape Info
Tracked: March 18, 2003 06:08 PM

Re: MTSpeling

I am spelng

Posted by: Dylan on March 25, 2003 09:02 PM # | Reply to this

Preview

Excerpt: For those of you who've not been leaving comments because the preview feature doesn't work, well, that's no longer an excuse. Now with spell checking!
Weblog: Nothing New
Tracked: March 26, 2003 01:30 PM

Install me post-haste

Excerpt: Note to self: Learn to spell. Or cheat.
Weblog: Gimpysoft
Tracked: April 1, 2003 08:37 AM

Re: MTSpeling

Ok, now thereers some mispellerd words. How do i check it?

Posted by: david on April 1, 2003 11:34 PM # | Reply to this

Re: MTSpeling

this is spelt incorrrectly

Posted by: olly on April 14, 2003 02:11 PM # | Reply to this

Re: MTSpeling

Alexi, thanks for the plugin. I have been using it for a couple of months and it has worked great until I started getting the following error. Nothing has changed in my MT templates or configs, permissions, etc. But I did upgrade to RedHat 7.3 and Perl 5.6.1. I had assumed it was the Perl upgrade causing the problem, but I just cannot track it down.

The error is:
MT::App::CMS=HASH(0x82ad388) Use of uninitialized value in hash element at /home/neil/www/MT/extlib/Lingua/Ispell.pm line 263, line 7.

Unfortunately, this completely stops MTSpeling from working. If you have any ideas how I should continue debugging this I would be grateful - I miss the plugin!

Thanks,
Neil

Posted by: Neil on May 18, 2003 07:05 AM # | Reply to this

Re: MTSpeling

Hi Alexei,

This is really a great tool, it helps me a lot! Thank you very much!!
Besides, I am wondering if I can use your css and javascript on my site. This “show misspelled words” checkbox thing is really cool. I also want to make the plugin use a personal dictionary file. Any hint on this?

Best Regards,
YC

Posted by: Yuan-Chung Cheng on May 20, 2003 12:10 AM # | Reply to this

Re: MTSpeling

Sure; the CSS and JavaScript that I use is fairly straightforward, and you’re welcome to borrow it.

As for a personal dictionary, MTSpeling will make use of a dictionary stored in a cookie on the user’s machine (as described on the MTSpeling page). You can use JavaScript to add words to this cookie. Take a look at the JavaScript on my spell-checking previews for an example.

Posted by: Alexei Kosut on May 20, 2003 09:03 AM # | Reply to this

Re: MTSpeling

Thank you very much, and I apologies for the annoying double posting I did yesterday.

Actually, I want to store my personal dictionary on the server so that I can access it anywhere (and somehow the cookie doesn’t work om my system). Therefore, I did a little hack in your plugin code and wrote a CGI to handle the adding of words. The whole bundle including your CSS and JavaScript is here. I can post a detail description about the installation on my Blog is you think it’s ok.

Disclaimer: I am new in blogging and certainly not a good perl programmer; I know my code sucks!

Posted by: Yuan-Chung Cheng on May 20, 2003 01:36 PM # | Reply to this

Re: MTSpeling

Yuan-Chung,

Thanks for packaging this. I’ve just added it to my blog and it’s quite handy!

Del Simmons

Posted by: Del Simmons on July 10, 2003 04:30 PM # | Reply to this

Beter Speling

Excerpt: You should be seeing better spelling on this weblog from now on, since I added MTSpeling.pl to my MoveableType installation. Unfortunately, you have to patch MT itself to integrate it, but it was no big deal. There's no way to...
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Tracked: May 25, 2003 01:26 AM

Bugzilla Documentation updates

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Tracked: July 2, 2003 02:29 PM

add spell-checking in comments

Excerpt: The Speling plugin (yes, the name is misspelled, deliberately) allows you to use the comment preview function for spell-checking. This is not the same as live comment preview. It's the built-in comment preview function that MT has. I don't think...
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Tracked: July 6, 2003 12:52 AM

Re: MTSpeling

If you’re installing the Lingua::Ispell module (Ispell.pm) in your own extlib folder, you need to create a Lingua folder and place Ispell.pm inside there.

That headache cost me 2 hours of grovelin’ ;-p

It’s great after you install it though. Kudos!

Posted by: Aaron on July 8, 2003 04:44 AM # | Reply to this

Re: MTSpeling

Hey Alexei!

First let me say how much I appreciate your work on MTSpeling. It rocks!

I have installed the package that Yuan-Chung Cheng linked to on your comments section, and have gotten it working quite nicely on Blog Entries and on Comment Previews. I’m having one small issue and I’m hoping you might have some idea where I should be looking for a possible fix.

The problem I am having is that my comment body preview never highlights the mispelled words. It doesn’t matter if I’ve set check_spelling to 1 or 2, the mispelled words never show up red, nor do they ever have a tag wrapped around them. It’s almost as if I were putting 0 instead. The mispelled words are found, and the suggestions show up fine, but the words in the actual preview never show up as red.

Any ideas?

If you’d like to see what I’m talking about, in live action, go to:

http://www.freespeech.com

and preview a comment on any story.

Do you have any thoughts one what to look at? I’m using MT 2.64 and I have the version of MTSpeling that Yuan-Chung Cheng added the addDict.pl support to for storing the custom dictionary on the server side. The mispelled words get marked red properly when I’m previewing a Blog Entry, but not on the comments. You can, of course, see the spelling.css and spelling.js files I’m
using on the server..

Thanks for taking the time to read this and thanks again for MTSpeling!

I did a bit more debugging, while previewing the message, and have a few more clues now..

In MTSpeling.pl, in the line that returns the value $str, after calling check_word in the regex substitute, the proper tags are around the misspelled words, but for some reason that version of the comment body never makes it back out to the browser. I don’t know enough about MT to know where to look to find out why the changes are getting dumped. Any ideas?

Del Simmons
del@freespeech.com

Posted by: Del Simmons on July 10, 2003 05:47 PM # | Reply to this

Re: MTSpeling

I ran into the same problem. After screwing around for about an hour, it dawned on me that MT was probably sanitizing the preview text after the MTSpeling filter added the tags.

The “highlight” tags were retained once I added santize=”0” to the preview comment body tag:

Posted by: Greg Bumgardner on July 12, 2003 11:01 PM # | Reply to this

Re: MTSpeling

I cut and pasted your sanitise tag above into my $MTCommentPreviewBody tag and it didn’t work..

After messing with it a bit I realized you misspelled sanitize!

DOH!

Just thought I’d post this in case anyone had the same issue..

Thanks so much for the help, Greg! I would have never thought of that!

And for what it’s worth I made my attribute as follows:

sanitize=”span class”

and used that with

check_spelling=”2”

Posted by: Del Simmons on July 24, 2003 02:04 PM # | Reply to this

Why Yes, Those Are New Tweaks

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Tracked: July 10, 2003 06:10 PM

Re: MTSpeling

Alexei, I’ve had no luck getting MTSpeling to work. Lingua::Ispell isn’t on my server, nor are they interested in adding it, so I put it in extlib. As advised in the comments, I created a separate folder for it. MTSpeling went into my plugin folder and I updated my comment preview template. However, it’s not catching any spelling errors at all.

Any ideas where I went wrong?

Posted by: Venomous Kate on July 12, 2003 04:34 AM # | Reply to this

Spelling...

Excerpt: After some fucking around with all kinds of crap, I have gotten the Moveable Type spell checking installed and working for both comments and posts. Yeah me! If you want to check your comments, just use the preview function....
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Tracked: July 14, 2003 09:00 PM

Jabber, Spell Check, Bot, Web page

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Tracked: September 3, 2003 09:33 AM

So little time...

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Tracked: October 21, 2003 06:36 PM

So little time...

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Tracked: October 21, 2003 06:37 PM

Spell-checking

Excerpt: Has anyone gotten the MTSpeling plugin to work with MT 2.64 when it comes to previewing posts? If so, I have questions. Many, many questions....
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Tracked: November 26, 2003 12:25 PM

Spell checker!

Excerpt: I justinstalled the MTSpeling plugin for MT - finally, something can correct my awful spelling! And cool, it's really works. I love how easy it is to plug in the plugins....
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Tracked: December 7, 2003 05:32 PM

MTSpeling in 2.64 (works fine!)

So, first of all, thanks for MTSpeling. There’s been some consternation about how to get it to work when previewing posts in MT 2.64. Fortunately, it seems to work fine. Alexei’s instructions are as correct for 2.64 as they were for 2.51. Here’s a slight recap:

1. Make sure you have all of the prerequisite Perl libraries installed. If you don’t have Lingua::Ispell installed, but do have root access to your server and it has CPAN installed, you can type

perl -MCPAN -e ‘install Lingua::Ispell’

and it will do the installation for you. If you don’t have root access or you don’t know what all this means, then it’s probably not practical for you to install this plugin.

2. Put MTSpeling.pl into your MT directory. So if you have MT installed in /foo/cgi-bin/mt, then you would put it in /foo/cgi-bin/mt/plugins/.

3. Find CMS.pm. It’ll be in /foo/cgi-bin/mt/lib/MT/Apps/CMS.pm for most everyone.

4. Make a backup copy of CMS.pm.

5. Edit CMS.pm. Look for “preview_code”. Two lines after it, there should be an entry that looks like

<$MTEntryBody$>

Change that to

<$MTEntryBody check_spelling=”1”$>

That’s it. Your’re done with the basic install.

Posted by: Mike on December 13, 2003 01:57 PM # | Reply to this

Blog spam

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Tracked: December 13, 2003 03:01 PM

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Tracked: January 1, 2004 03:17 AM

MT-Preview absolutely rocks, but....

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Tracked: January 23, 2004 11:34 PM

غلطياب املايي mt

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Tracked: March 19, 2004 12:44 AM

Re: MTSpeling

Is it possible to use other dictionary than the english? Where can i change the default dict for MTSpeling?

Posted by: Pedro Custodio on March 28, 2004 03:40 AM # | Reply to this

غلطياب املايي MT

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Tracked: April 6, 2004 10:44 AM

Spell Check Plugin

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Tracked: May 19, 2004 10:49 AM

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