Zach, on Sonnet

Here is Zach introducing Sonnet. It is a bit old (May 2006) yet still relevant. I plan on slowly taking over some of the maintainer responsibilities from Zach.

Talking about spell checking I played a bit with Sonnet over the weekend. I've been handling KSpell, then KSpell2 for a while and then I just grew tired of it last summer (for various reasons not really related to the code itself). I've been toying with the idea of full linguistic framework for a while. Besides spell checking we're talking about grammar checker, dictionary, thesaurus and translator. Sonnet is just that - full linguistic framework. I'd like to have all those functions available to all KDE applications. Being able to take a step back, look at all the problems I've seen and complains I got over the years from both users and developers and just sit down and rework the whole framework to fix them is great. Linguistics is fascinating and for some reasons there's not a whole lot of people who'd want to deal with it, at least not as far as its desktop usage goes.