On Sat, 24 Jan 2004, Kevin Atkinson wrote: [Fixed URL below]
> I have just released another pre Aspell 0.51 snapshot, version > 0.51-20040124. This snapshot has several major changed from the previous > one. > > The biggest being support for Affix Compression. Affix compression stores > the root word and then a list of prefixes and suffixes that the word can > take, and thus saves a lot of space. The codebase comes from MySpell > found in OpenOffice. It uses the same affix file OpenOffice (and Mozilla) > use. However, affix compression is currently incomputable with sounds like > look up which means that the suggestion quality will suffer. > > The other major change is that the manual has been converted to texinfo > format thanks to the work of Chris Martin. > > Other changes from Aspell 0.50: > > * Added support for loadable filters thanks to Christoph Hintermüller > * Enhanced TEX filter to support recognize accent commands, such as the > German umlaute, and to treat words with hyphenation characters in them > as one word, also thanks to Christoph Hintermüller > * Added gettext support thanks to Sergey Poznyakoff > * Reworked how the dictionary is stored to take up less space (around > 80% for the English language) and be faster in some cases. > * Reworked the build system so that a single Makefile is used for most > of the code. > > I would really appreciate it if people could test it out and report back > any bugs to the appropriate tracker at > http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=245 . > > Due to the changes in the build system I would really appreciate it if > package maintains could attempt to package it and report back any > problems. Since this is a pre-release version please DO NOT replace > Aspell 0.50 with the snapshot as I do not consider it sufficiently stable > yet. In particular, the way loadable filters are handles and the > dictionary format may change before Aspell 0.51. > > I have registered the 'Aspell' domain with the Translation Project > (http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/translation/HTML/index.html). This means > that if you wish to contribute to contribute a translation for Aspell you > should go through them. > > You can find the snapshot at > http://aspell.net/devel/aspell-0.51-20030124.tar.gz Make that http://aspell.net/devel/aspell-0.51-20040124.tar.gz. Sorry ;( > Future snapshots will be uploaded to http://aspell.net/devel/. It is > unlikely that I will announce every snapshot release to > aspell-announce. So, if you are interested in following Aspell > development I suggest you subscribe to aspell-devel. -- http://kevin.atkinson.dhs.org _______________________________________________ Aspell-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/aspell-devel
