Cool work! Can anyone post here (so it will be catched by google) a "micro" how-to use with various (KDE?) applications like kmail, etc? (I'm sure that there are some GNOME apps which use hspell as well)..
Thanks Hetz On Tuesday 05 August 2003 19:08, Nadav Har'El wrote: > You say you want a revolution, > We all want to change the world. > You tell me that it's evolution, > We all want to change the world! > > You say you've got a real solution, > We'd all love to see the plan. > You ask me for a contribution, > We are doing what we can. > > Don't you know it's gonna be Alright? > > > After a three months of unrest, the Hspell 0.6 revolution has begun! > > The two revolutionaries Nadav Har'El and Dan Kenigsberg created a website > describing the New Word Order: > http://www.ivrix.org.il/projects/spell-checker/ > > Vive la revolution! > > > Still wondering what Hspell 0.6 is all about? > > In this release, the Hspell front-end (the hspell program) was rewritten. > The new front-end has many improvements over the old one, but also a few > setbacks - features that are (temporarily) unavailable because they > weren't yet ported to the new version. > > The improvements: > > * A huge performance improvement - hspell now starts up, and runs, at > least 20 times faster than it used to and takes less than one fifth the > memory. > > * The new front-end is written in C, so Hspell can now run on systems > which do not have Perl. Perl is still needed for building Hspell from > source. > > * The list of allowed prefixes was improved (joined work with Shlomo Yona) > and hspell now finally knows which prefixes are valid for most words, > reducing the risk of accepting misspellings as correct and reducing the > number of silly (and wrong) correction suggestions. > > Note that unlike earlier versions, words listed in the user's personal > dictionary (~/.hspell_words or ./hspell_words) are no longer > automatically accepted with prefixes. Also, these words are never used as > suggested corrections. > > * "hspell -a" was made more compatible with the standard "ispell -a" > (thanks to Mooffie). Hspell is now known to be used with LyX, KDE, Geresh > and Emacs. > > The setbacks: > > * The "-v" option, that used to explain how valid words were derived, is > no longer available in this version. It is replaced by a "-l" option, > which in this release is weaker (it can only show a division of valid > words into prefix particle + word). > > * The "-n" option, that used to give hints on how to spell correctly, is > not available. > > * The "likelyerrors" feature (or recognizing certain words as > theoretically correct but still very likely to be mistakes) is not > available. > > * TeX-like repeated single quote ('') is not treated as double quotes ("). > > * Long options (GNU's "minus-minus" options) are not supported in this > version. > > Some other changes: > > * Included in the distribution is a new utility "multispell" by Mooffie, > which can spell-check mixed Hebrew-English text by interfacing with two > spell-checkers (hspell and ispell) simultaneously. Multispell is better > than hspell's built-in slave mode (hspell -a -i) when the calling > program can't deal with wrong word order in the results (e.g., Emacs has > this issue.) > > * Some incorrect words purged or fixed, and more words added: over 600 > base words added. > > * Vocabulary: 394,833 words (when including kinuyim on verbs) > based on 7462 nouns, 1533 adjectives, 5060 verb stems, and > 1819 other words ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
