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This is a libreoffice writer extension to allow for inline generative editing with local inference. It can be used with any language model supported by text-generation-webui.

This extension adds two powerful commands to libreoffice writer:

Uses a language model to predict what comes after the selected text. There are a lot of ways to use this.

Some example use cases for this include, writing a story or an email given a particular prompt, adding additional possible items to a grocery list, or summarizing the selected text.

A dialog box appears to prompt the user for instructions about how to edit the selected text, then the selected text is replaced by the edited text.

Some examples for use cases for this include changing the tone of an email, translating text to a different language, and semantically editing a scene in a story.

First go to tags, and download the most recent version of localwriter.oxt.

In libreoffice, Navigate to Tools, then Extensions Manager, then click Add and find the localwriter.oxt file in your filesystem. You will be directed to read the license then the extension should be installed.

You will also need to setup text-generation-webui, and enable the local openai API (note that this just means in this mode text-generation-webui will respond in the same format as open AI, all the computation still happens on your computer!). You can use whatever model you want, but I'd recommend openchat3.5 if you don't have a particular model in mind and have only 8 gigabytes of VRAM. Once the OpenAI-style API is running on localhost port 5000, localwriter should work with no additional steps. If you are using Ollama as a backend, you need to specify the model you are using in the settings, and likely set the endpoint url/point to Ollama's default which is https://127.0.0.1:11434.

Extend Selection is bound to ctrl + q by default, and Edit Selection is bound to ctrl + e by default.

In the settings, you can set the maximum number of additional tokens for extend selection and the maximum additional tokens (above the number of letters in the original selection) for edit selection. You can also individually set the "system prompt" for edit selection and extend selection in settings, and this prompt will always be invisibly be appended before the selection from your document send to the language model with each of these commands. For example, if you want to use a particular writing style, you can place a sample of your writing in extend selection system prompt, along with a directive to always write in a simlar style.

(See License.txt for the full license text)

Except where otherwise noted in source code, this software is provided with a MPL 2.0 license.

The code not released with an MPL2.0 license is released under the following terms. License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License, License: The Document Foundation https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

A large amount of code is derived from the following MPL2.0 licensed code from the Document Foundation https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/159938

MPL2.0

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