On June 20, 2005 09:33 am, Richard Shewmaker wrote: > Hi. I'm not programming-friendly (although not totally uninformed). > I'm wondering if there is a way for me to create a new dictionary > from a list of words I assemble. I looked your site over but could > not find anything which appeared to do what I'd like to do.
Aspell 0.6x is currently a wordlist-based spell checker. This is an example of an Aspell wordlist: airplane algebra apple A dictionary needs to have a word with a definition attached which is missing information as per Aspell 0.5x and 0.6x wordlists right now. This is an example of what you need for a dictionary: airplane, air|plane, (ar-plan) A flying machine...... algebra, al|ge|bra, (al-je-bre) branch of mathematics.... apple, ap|ple, (ap'el) round fruit grown on a tree.... Looking above, there are desirable features in a dictionary, such as correct locations for word-breaks and the sounds-like included in the dictionary definition which may prove useful for finding additional spelling errors plus sounds-like substitutions. Perhaps features like that may eventually work their way into Aspell, but not yet at the moment with the 0.60 version (read the TODO for Aspell). > What I'm interested in making is an HTML dictionary for UltraEdit. As > you most likely know, the dictionaries currently available (to my > knowledge) do not recognize HTML (as well as CSS) tags, and so spell > checking coded documents is unrealistic. You may want to look at gnucide or freedict for direction and information since the results are closer to what you are looking for. > Thank you in advance. I hope I'm not using valuable time! If you think Aspell could use some dictionary qualities, such as word-break information or sounds-like features and are willing to help in some manner or other (such as creating improved wordlists, whatever?), then the time spent was well worth it. :-) Please check if the maintainer is interested, then if you are interested in pursuing these, then check these since they would benefit from enhanced-type wordlists: This would benefit from word-breaks in correct location: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=614305&group_id=245&atid=350245 This may benefit from sounds-like related information: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=613639&group_id=245&atid=350245 _______________________________________________ Aspell-devel mailing list Aspell-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/aspell-devel
