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I was browsing though Usenet groups on the search term "Aspell" as I do from time to time to see what out people are saying about Aspell and I came across your thread "Spell-check engine?" to comp.lang.python. Although the LGPL gives you the right to reuse my code I would of appreciate a note to that effort. You could of saved yourself a decent deal of effort by contacting me first. A few points I want to address: The Aspell library should compile on Win32 using the MinGW version of Gcc which means that the CygWin library does not need to be pulled in. It can now also compile using VC++ but with a user contributed patch but that is completely unsupported by me. Do not even think about using the *.rws files as it is a compiled dictionary format internal to Aspell and can change at any time. For example the next Aspell release 0.51 will change the format of the compiled words lists in a non trivial way. However using the *.cwl is rather easy. All the *.cwl are just compressed word lists with the word-list-compress utility distributed with Aspell. The process is extremely simple and can easy be written in any language. When edit distance are computed each "edit" has a weight associated with it. When typo analysis is used the weights are significantly different from the normal edit distance algorithm. The basic algorithm is the same however. If you have any other questions I will be happy to address them. -- http://kevin.atkinson.dhs.org _______________________________________________ Aspell-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/aspell-devel
