On 15/11/14 10:32, Stephan Witt wrote:
Am 15.11.2014 um 11:13 schrieb Liviu Andronic <[email protected]>:
On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 11:43 AM, F M Salter <[email protected]> wrote:
In the wiki new restrictions are indicated which seem to imply the
withdrawal of support for aspell.
Aspell dictionary version 6 is discussed. However version 7 is now
available which works with aspell 6!
What is Aspell 6 and aspell 7? I know of aspell 0.60.6.1 as latest release.
I elided the version numbers.
URL: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/aspell/dict/0index.html
shows the dictionary file, aspell6-en-7.1-0.tar.bz2
<ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/aspell/dict/en/aspell6-en-7.1-0.tar.bz2>
It appears that hunspell is being presented as the spell checker of choice.
Is this the case?
I asked this question as there is little in the documentation about
spell checking.
I attempted to use hunspell in lyx and found for my work that the
suggested corrections were few
and frequently "strange" with what would appear to be obvious
suggestions missing.
I find that for spell checking english (gb), hunspell is almost incapable
of handling punctuation correctly!
This has been a problem for many years and it seems to be that no
improvement is being considered!
Aspell is significantly better.
What future changes if any are being planned for linux users as the apparent
reason seems to relate to Windows inadequacies?
The wiki page quoted below makes specific reference to windows
At least on Linux LyX 2.1.x can be built with support for Aspell (the
library), and this seems to work fine. And I haven't heard any noises
on the list wrt Aspell being completely dropped…
While this comment is reassuring, the "completely dropped" seems to
imply a preference for hunspell,
which is significantly inferior to aspell for my use with English English!
Cite from wiki:
"Note: Beginning with 2.0 support for the aspell command line program has been
dropped. Although the aspell library (aspell 0.60.x) is still supported, Windows binaries
are compiled without this feature."
For Mac OS X aspell support is always included too.
Stephan
This is partly what triggered my questions. I could not find any
reference in the documentation
to the significance of the withdrawal of the command line support,
mentioned above and whether
this had any longer term implications. The general tenor of the text
appeared to favour the use of hunspell.
If I now understand the situation correctly, aspell will continue to be
available indefinitely
Many thanks
Frank Salter
