Subject: Re: Ispell Word Lists (fwd)
From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sun Jun 24 2001 - 21:41:27 CDT
Hi Kevin,
Thanks very much. I will do this. Is there any chance of educating
the Linux distributions (including Ximian) on the correct way to use use
pspell/aspell to use languages other than English? One of our biggest
complaints is that AbiWord is sh*t because it can't spellcheck <insert
non-english language here>
Cheers
Martin
On Sun, 24 Jun 2001, Kevin Atkinson wrote:
>
> I mentioned this a month ago and get no response so I thought I will try
> again now that you are reworking on the recreating the Ispell hashes.
>
> If I get no response this time I will simply give up.
>
> ---
> Kevin Atkinson
> kevina at users sourceforge net
> http://www.ibiblio.org/kevina/
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 16:56:05 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Kevin Atkinson <kevina@users.sourceforge.net>
> To: abiword-dev@abisource.com
> Subject: Ispell Word Lists
>
>
> If you are going to "insist" on using Ispell (really I understand your
> reasons, but as the Aspell author I have my bias). May I recommend you
> consider using the Aspell word lists rather than the Ispell ones for the
> English dictionaries as they are significantly more complete and accurate,
> and also contains one for Canadian spelling. The down size is they
> contain a decent deal larger number of words than the ispell
> dictionaries.
>
> You can get at the word lists by doing the following on a system that has
> Aspell installed.
>
> aspell dump master american > american.lst
> aspell dump master british > british.lst
> aspell dump master canadian > canadian.lst
>
> The order the words are returned is essentially random (the order they appear
> in the hash tables) so you might want to throw in a sort.
>
> I suggest doing this with the latest version of Aspell. The word lists
> gets better with each sequential version of Aspell and Aspell .33.0 has
> a few common words missing due to bugs in the word list creation process.
>
> I could easily send the lists to someone if that will be easier.
>
> ---
> Kevin Atkinson
> kevina at users sourceforge net
> http://www.ibiblio.org/kevina/
>
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>
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