On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Chris Hornbaker wrote: > On Friday 26 March 2004 17:07, Kevin Atkinson wrote: > > On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Chris Hornbaker wrote: > > > I just saw the entry for support for compound words under Important > > > Items in the To Do section of the pre-release manual docs. The language > > > I'd like to add support for has the potential to have millions of > > > compound words. It has some simple rules for combining them (like, no > > > consonant pairs). If I can be of some help, then please let me know. > > I didn't mean "no consonant pairs" in the above, I meant "no double consonant > pairs", like dd, cc, gg, etc. > > > I need details. I am especially interested in cases where concatenating > > two words together is not sufficient. > > Typically an extra letter is added -- sorta like a glue that keeps them > separate, but together. When two consonants connect that -are not- > permissible, then the letter 'y' is placed between them. So, "dd" becomes > "dyd". > > There's also the case where you'd need to add a consonant to meet the "you > must have a permissible consonant pair within the first five letters of the > word, excluding the letters y and ' (apostrophe)" rule. When you have a word > like "soi" and you want to combine it with "sai" (creating "soisai", which is > illegal) you use the letter "r" to create a permissible consonant pair. In > this case, "soisai" would need to be "soirsai" to be legal. If, however, "r" > cannoy be used (like when it would create a "rr" consonant pair), then you > would use "n".
OK. I see. Can it get more complicated than that? -- http://kevin.atkinson.dhs.org _______________________________________________ Aspell-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/aspell-devel
