Subject: Re: ispell for Alpha (was Re: AbiSource, Ispell, Aspell and beyond...)
From: Kevin Atkinson (kevinatk@home.com)
Date: Fri Feb 25 2000 - 19:05:21 CST
On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, Paul Rohr wrote:
> >I also see a bit of discussion going on about
> >using ispell vs. aspell in AbiWord. Makes me wonder
> >if the time I invest in cleaning up ispell would
> >go a waste!!
>
> Absolutely not. While other dictionary formats may have technical
> advantages, the fact that there's already such a large number of
> ispell-format dictionaries makes them *incredibly* useful.
>
> http://fmg-www.cs.ucla.edu/geoff/ispell-dictionaries.html
>
> For example, look at the very high level of overlap between languages
> supported in AbiWord and ispell-format dictionaries:
>
> AbiWord only -- id
> AbiWord & ispell -- ca, cz, da, de, du, en-US, en-GB, es, fi, fr,
> it, no, pl, pt-BR, pt-PT, sv
> ispell only -- el, eo, ro, ru, sl
Most all of them, unless I am wrong, are distributed as (perhaps munched)
word list. Thus they can easily be used with another spell checker my
simple demunching the word lists.
I don't see what is the big deal here.
--- Kevin Atkinson kevinatk@home.com http://metalab.unc.edu/kevina/
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