Spell checker

Spell checker is available since FreeMind 1.0.0.

FreeMind uses JOrtho spell checking library for Java.

The author of the spell checking function for FreeMind is Eicke.

Development: Candidate spell checkers

Candidate spell checkers:

• JOrtho - hosted at SourceForge
  • Language: Java
  • Uses dictionaries based on Wiktionary => vastly incomplete
  • Used by Freeplane as well.
• Hunspell
  • Language: C++
  • Used by OpenOffice, Opera , Firefox and Google Chrome
  • For Java using JNI, JNA: Java API for Hunspell based on JNA; only a wrapper, not a Java port
• Jazzy - hosted at SourceForge
  • Language: Java
  • Used by eKit

Further open source spell checkers:

• GNU ASpell
• MySpell
• Ispell

Tracker items

• Feature request: Spell check is crucial
• Search Feature Requests tracker for "spell check"
• Enhanced Spell Checking, 2014-04-22 -- requests spell checking to take place without entering the edit mode

Forums

• Freeplane forum: Why JOrtho is not suitable, 2009-04-11
• Add words to spell checking dictionary in Help forum, 2014-04-15, sourceforge.net

Links

• Spell checker at Wikipedia
• jortho project page, sourceforge.net -- JOrtho is the library used for spell checking
• freeplane/files/spell_check_dictionaries, sourceforge.net -- dictionaries for JOrtho created as part of Freeplane project, allegedly by being converted from aspell[1]