On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 5:48 PM, F M Salter <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > 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 > >From memory, aspell CLI support was dropped about 2 major releases back (about 4-5 years ago). Since then no discussions took place on dropping aspell library support, so I assume that this is not on the agenda.
Regards, Liviu > Many thanks > Frank Salter > -- Do you think you know what math is? http://www.ideasroadshow.com/issues/ian-stewart-2013-08-02 Or what it means to be intelligent? http://www.ideasroadshow.com/issues/john-duncan-2013-08-30 Think again: http://www.ideasroadshow.com/library
