> >Congrats to Franz Nagl et al, who do a great job keeping that file up to >date. Although, I do see that 'Anand V' is still listed as 'Anand V', >and 'Giri A' is still listed as 'Giri A' >
On the bottom-left of the Spellcheck windows there is a checkbox "Ambiguous". Some names may not be unique and are not corrected by default. For example "Giri A" may be "Giri, Abhishek" or "Giri, Anish" A correction can be enforced checking the "Ambiguous" box and deleting "Ambiguous: " from the line with the desired correction. The spelling file is used directly only by "Database" -> "Name Spelling" windows and for finding player photos. However correcting names have a much broader impact. For example, having two games, one played at the "42nd World Open 2014" and the other played at the "42. World Open 2014", they will not be detected as part of the same tournament by the crosstable window. So, even if in theory tinkering with the spelling file is safe, users must be aware that name corrections cannot be undone and that Scid trusts the spelling file a lot. For example adding at line 142805 in the current spelling.ssp: = Giri, A will force "Giri A" to be corrected with "Giri, Anish". But adding this instead: = Anand, V will force "Anand V" to be corrected with "Giri, Anish"! A debug flag can offer some help: ./configure DEBUG="-DSPELLCHKVALIDATE" (recompiling is necessary: make clean && make) After that, opening a spellcheck file in Scid will create a corresponding spelling.ssp.validate with reports for ignored lines (wrong sintax) and duplicate entries. Since Scid 4.6 does not seem to get a lot of love, i hope users will notice how faster is name spelling, for example. Bye, Fulvio ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Scid-users mailing list Scid-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users
