Some thoughts to Ken Foskey's letter: > 1. myspell has a poor choice of mispelled words. Less than other > products. Myspell has quite a number of suggestions and avoids the ridiculous suggestions of MS Office
> 2. myspell appears to use clear text word lists, potentially making them > large. These dictionaries have the same root as other spell checkers > but are built differently. Clear text word list have a lot of advantages, and IMHO no disadvantages. With a secondary flag, as described in http://tkltrans.sourceforge.net/tklspell/secflag.htm, they can be made smaller. First the library has to support the secondary flag, and then the dictionaries can be made smaller. > 3. myspell does not share personal dictionaries with other spell > checkers. We should have a standard place and format that all personal > dictionaries are stored. For user words it is important to develop logic to be able to use the proper flags. For example, lets assume, the word boy/s is in the dictionary. If the user adds toy, it should be added as toy/s in order to handle plural correctly. > 2. It would be very interesting to ensure that the actual release > dictionaries are interoperable as much as possible. I thought that one > of the ispell / aspell clan were going to use the myspell library as a > base. We should actively encourage this. Aspell from version 0.6 uses the same dictionaries as myspell. However, since no simple editor uses aspell >= 0.6, only emacs and some hard installable emailers, the quality of aspell >= 0.6 was not tested yet. Regards, Eleonora --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
