On Fri, 19 Mar 1999, Daniel Naber wrote:
> Hi,
Hello.
> here's an idea for a new feature for lyx 1.1:
>
> At http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn/w3wn.html you can find a huge
> database of english words which is freely available - 'wordnet'. The most
> interesting part is probably the synonyms. It's not very difficult to
> integrate this in lyx, so everybody who has wordnet installed gets an
> lyx-integrated thesaurus.
This does sound rather interesting.
> The question is, how to integrate it:
>
> 1. wordnet comes with a library to call its functions from C
> 2. it comes with a unix shell command that lyx could call
> 3. it comes with an tcl/tk gui (called "wordnet browser") that
> lyx could call
>
> I guess #3 is the best (short term?) solution, since it's no fun to
> rebuild the gui using xforms (even if its not too complex). Does anybody
Short term yes, long term no.
I'd prefer either of #1 or #2. Its not that difficult to implement a new
popup.
> have experience with tcl/c++ integration? Not only should we call the gui
So LyX would then require tcl to be installed as well. IMO, that's asking
too much. We really do need to integrate it in some way that doesn't
require adding even more dependencies on external packages.
> with a certain word the user wants information about, but the gui should
> also give back other words to lyx. Well, let's say the latter would be
> cool, it doubt if it's really important.
It would be fairly easy to pass back a list so why not?
> BTW, there's also a "EuroWordnet" project so we've got a chance this is
> not just for english language (haven't checked out the non-english stuff
> yet).
>
> Comments, ideas?
Sounds like a useful addition but I'll have to read more about it.
> Regards
> Daniel
>
> PS: In case you're wondering why I come up with ideas but not with code: I
> still cannot use lyx 1.1 because it crashes when I choose "new file" or
> when I try to load a file (it's still the same problem I already posted
> here).
No more excuses! I fixed that bug this morning :-)
Allan. (ARRae)
