[PD] Text Functions

[Frank Barknecht]

Hallo,
mdk hat gesagt: // mdk wrote:

> im no PD expert, but maybe one avenue worth investigating is finding the 
> appropriate software (hopefully something open-source) that does the 
> word recognition and spell checking then getting that to send control 
> data to PD via netsend / netreceive.
> 
> Perl seems to be the obvious candidate for its text munging 
> capabilities, and theres some simple code on the pure-data.org site for 
> a perl client that can talk to PD.
> 
> http://www.pure-data.org/Members/kogger/netperlpd/view
> 
> just an idea.

A good idea IMO - although I would prefer Python as in 
http://www.pure-data.org/Members/fbar/tools/pdsender.py/view which I
find easier to learn as well and you could even run it inside Pd. I
would run it outside, though. 

Pd's own string handling capabilities are *very* limited. In a more
text oriented full programming language like Python you get a lot of
support for string handling, maybe you'll even find a binding directly
to (i)spell.

ciao
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 Frank Barknecht                               _ ______footils.org__