On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, Melvin Hadasht wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to report a successful port to the new-aspell of the spell checker > code of Sylpheed-Claws that was developed using pspell-0.12.2.
Thanks for the info. > > What I did: > > 1. I changed the functions name accordingly to use aspell.h instead of pspell.h. > I'm aware that pspell.h is still there for compatibility reasons, but I wanted > to make a full port. > > 2. aspell_config_replace: some options seem to have changed or removed: > - pspell's "language-tag" changed to "lang > - pspell's "spelling" removed > - aspell has a new "size" option > - aspell still have "module". This was set to aspell or ispell. Isn't > this obsolete now? Or has it a new meaning? The module option has about the same meaning, however right now it is not really used. > > 3. dictionaries: in the old code, I used to detect available dictionaries by > checking for .pwli files to allow the user to select one from a list . This is > obsolete now, unfortunately. I check now for .multi files. But this is not > perfect: there is an american.multi file, but providing 'american' to the 'lang' > config option is not correct, as it expects en_US style strings. So creating > "english.multi", or more generally, non xx_XX*.multi is not necessary and may be > error prone. This is the main inconvenient of new-aspell with respect to old > pspell. There are new classes to deal with listing the available dictionaries. see AspellDictInfoList. Sorry it isn't really documented yet. The code is in common/info.?pp. > PS: I managed to port the French dictionary to new aspell. I had to change the > Makefile.pre by hand. But it seems this was generated by 'proc'. Where can I > find it? Is there any interest to the French dictionary? For dictionaries for the new Aspell go to http://freesoftware.fsf.org/download/aspell/. I think the proc script is included. If not let me know. -- http://kevin.atkinson.dhs.org _______________________________________________ Aspell-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.freesoftware.fsf.org/mailman/listinfo/aspell-devel
