prosolis be1ab5cef7 Her apostrophe was cutting French words in half
Typography.ts rewrites every ' typed in the editor into a curly ’, but both
word regexes only counted the straight one. So "aujourd’hui" reached the
dictionary as "aujourd" + "hui", neither of them a French word, and one of the
commonest words in the language came back wearing two red underlines. Same for
quelqu’un, presqu’île, prud’homme. l’arbre only survived by accident, because
"l" happens to be a bare entry. withElision, written for exactly this, could
only ever fire on pasted text.

Both marks are word characters now, and combine() straightens on lookup — the
one place every lookup passes through — since the shipped word lists spell
theirs straight. Suggestions come back wearing whichever mark she actually
used, so accepting a pill never swaps her apostrophe.

œ was untokenizable too: U+0152/U+0153 sit outside the Latin-1 ranges, so
"cœur" split into "c" + "ur" and the orphan was long enough to underline. 586 œ
forms ship in fr.dic.gz and not one of them was reachable.

In the dictionary builder, the two cross-product paths added their forms
without the NEEDAFFIX check the single-affix paths apply, so a doubly-affixed
form that is still "not a word on its own" was accepted anyway — the exact
class of error the FLAG-aware rewrite exists to close. PFX and SFX are also
separate flag namespaces, and one shared `cross` dict let the second block
overwrite the first. Odd-length long-flag strings now stop the build instead of
dropping a character and expanding through the wrong paradigm.

The pt-PT and Québécois greps were case-sensitive against sentence-cased copy,
which let a leading "Actualmente…" through the guard added to catch it.

Note: this changes what the expander produces, but fr.dic.gz and pt-PT.dic.gz
are vendored and were built with the old behaviour. Both want regenerating on a
box that can fetch the upstream .deb, and BUILD_PLAN Phase 24's "pt-PT rebuild
is byte-identical" claim re-checked — if those bytes move, the NEEDAFFIX gap
was live in the Portuguese list too.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016y6gyuHkQXPiEuW8RGQyua
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🌸 Petal

A self-hosted, privacy-first writing editor with warm bubbly design, auto-save, and local-LLM grammar/ESL suggestions. See petal-spec.md for the full design spec and BUILD_PLAN.md for build progress.

Stack

Go + chi backend · SQLite (modernc, pure Go) · React + Vite + Tiptap + Tailwind v4 frontend · local vLLM/Ollama for AI suggestions. Single-binary deployment (frontend embedded via go:embed).

Local development

Two processes during development:

# 1. Backend (serves /api on :8080)
go run ./cmd/server

# 2. Frontend dev server (HMR on :5173, proxies /api → :8080)
cd web && npm install && npm run dev

Open http://localhost:5173 while developing.

Production build (single binary)

cd web && npm run build      # emits web/dist (embedded by the Go binary)
cd .. && go build -o petal ./cmd/server
./petal                      # serves UI + API on :8080

Configuration is via environment variables — copy .env.example to .env.

Deployment

docker compose up -d --build     # petal + the two Piper read-aloud sidecars

Behind Traefik on the parodia.dev VPS; vLLM stays on millenia over headscale. Full runbook — first deploy, the LLM link, backups and restore — in deploy/README.md.

Status

Early build, multi-session. Auth (Authentik OIDC) is next; Copyleaks plagiarism is still parked — see BUILD_PLAN.md.

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Description
Petal is a self-hosted, privacy-first writing editor for an ESL user. It replaces Grammarly with a warm, bubbly web app that combines Tiptap rich text editing, auto-save cloud storage, and periodic AI-powered grammar/ESL suggestions backed by a local vLLM inference endpoint.
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