spellcheck.groovy

Feature Realization

This script provides a project-wide spell checking utility with a dedicated GUI. It tokenizes the target text and checks each word against OmegaT’s configured spellchecker. It offers advanced options such as:

• Checking the whole project or just the current file.

• Using the project’s glossary as a source of “correct” terms to ignore.

• Cleaning up the text before checking (removing tags, BiDi marks, mnemonic characters, and custom tags).

• Filtering out segments where source and target are identical.

The results window allows users to jump to segments, ignore specific words, or “learn” them (add to the user dictionary).

Key APIs

• Core.getSpellChecker(): Accesses the active spellchecking engine.

• Core.getGlossaryManager(): Retrieves terms from the project glossaries.

• Core.getProject().getTargetTokenizer(): Used to correctly split the translation into individual words.

• editor.gotoEntry(value): Navigates to a segment from the results table.

• spellchecker.ignoreWord() & spellchecker.learnWord(): Updates the spellchecker’s word lists.

Important Constraints or Limitations

• Configuration Required: OmegaT must have a spellchecker and appropriate dictionaries installed and enabled.

• Preprocessing: While it attempts to clean tags and marks, complex formatting might still lead to false positives.

• Performance: Tokenizing and spellchecking a large project can be resource-intensive.