I thought eventual migration to pspell/aspell was planned instead? (but that it was held back by portability issues)
Just to keep you all informed, openoffice.org uses MySpell a pspell based system they have developed and the changes are/were to be folded back into pspell. "A new spell checker called MySpell was written in C++ that supports affix compression (based on Geoff Kuenning's wonderful Ispell). This code has been donated to Pspell and will eventually make it into a future Pspell release in some form after it has been integrated. In the meanwhile, MySpell, which builds on almost any system will be used to support spell checking under OpenOffice.org. Any work done to create and support dictionaries/affix files for MySpell will also make the transition to Pspell so that no work on the part of volunteers will be lost." Best of luck to whoever does decide to tackle this... Sincerely Alan On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, Paul Rohr wrote: > However, I'd also like to point out that this entire category of problems > could be solved *permanently* by a sufficiently-clever programmer who's > willing to: > > Do the ugly, thankless work needed to allow us to load *any* > commonly-available variant of the ispell hash formats, instead > of just one. > > For some hints on the work required to do so, see: > > http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-dev/01/April/1030.html > http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-dev/01/March/0769.html > > To date, we haven't found any volunteers who are both brave enough and > talented enough to tackle this, but I'm still hopeful that we will. :-)
