On Tue, 20 Dec 2016, Ciarán Ó Duibhín wrote: > True at present, unfortunately. But in principle, an option could be > programmed, to make aspell accept "drop-down" when the dictionary contains > "drop" and "down". The only manual additions to the dictionary would then be > words like "hotch-potch", because "hotch" and "potch" are not in the > dictionary. >
But it does currently; drop-down is accepted, as is drop-dawn (do you want it?); dropdown is rejected and drop-down is suggested. And you can add dropdown to your dictionary if you want (but not drop-dawn to the rejected list). But not hotch-potch (you can add both, but you probably don't want). In French, belle-mère and beau-père are accepted, and belle-père is rejected (suggesting belle-mère between others; beau-père is not suggested, too far in keystrokes). And you can add belle-père (possible in a humoristic context, but pretty much weird). This is OK for French. > I think such an option would be generally useful, at least for English, and > incidentally would make aspell behave more like the MS-Word spell-checker. > > I made such a modification a few years ago, and it worked to my own > satisfaction, but the code changes would require to be examined by someone > fully conversant with the workings of aspell before it could be considered > safe. The solution of a "special" English dictionary changing the "special" not only requires to identify the good hyphenated words, but requires a different language, because the en.dat is unique for all the en dictionaries, and many users might prefer the current behaviour. So it is a suggestion only if you compile it yourself. Having "special" declarations per dictionary might be complicated; already describing the expected behaviour of aspell when you mix specials is complicated (I know, having tried to describe what I expect to have in a document mixing English and French or German: parsing words is already badly defined). Carlo _______________________________________________ Aspell-user mailing list Aspell-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/aspell-user
