On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Kevin Atkinson wrote: > > I have just released another pre Aspell 0.60 snapshot, version > 0.60-20040322. This snapshot contains several bug fixes, including a > major when where Aspell will crash when checking documents when > soundlike lookup is not used. The manual has also been updated. An > appendix on languages Aspell can support, and another on on language > related issues, has been added. > > Please also note several important changes that were introduced in the > Aspell 0.60-20040317 snapshot: > > 1) I decided to name the next Aspell version 0.60 since almost every part > of Aspell has been refactored or rewritten to some extent. > > 2) Dictionaries and data files are now installed in LIBDIR/aspell-0.60 so > that Aspell 0.50 and 0.60 can more peacefully coexist. > > 3) The dictionary format has changed yet again. I hope this is the last > time I change it before the Aspell 0.60 but no promises. > > 4) The format of the character data files has changed. This should not be > a problem as Aspell will simply install new ones. > > I have also added an appendix to the manual on Languages that Aspell > should be able to eventually support. > > You can find it at http://aspell.net/devel/aspell-0.560-20040317.tar.gz. > Future versions can be found at http://aspell.net/devel/. I hope to > eventually be able to upload the snapshots to > ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/aspell/ but I am not authorized to do so yet.
Change that to: You can find it at ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/aspell/aspell-0.60-20040322.tar.gz Future versions can be found at ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/aspell/. Sorry > > Other changes from Aspell 0.50: > > * Added support for loadable filters thanks to Christoph Hintermüller > > * Enhanced TEX filter to support recognizing 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. > > * 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 incompatible with sounds like look up which means that > the suggestion quality will suffer. > > * Added support for MySpell Replacement Tables for better suggestions > when phonet information is not available. > > * Added support for accepting all input and printing all output in > UTF-8 or some other encoding different from the one Aspell uses. > Aspell can now support any language that no more than 220 distinct > characters, including different capitalizations and accents, _even_ > if there is not an existing 8-bit encoding that supports the language. > > * Manual has has been converted to texinfo format thanks to the work > of Chris Martin. > > > -- http://kevin.atkinson.dhs.org _______________________________________________ Aspell-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/aspell-devel
