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List:       aspell-user
Subject:    Re: Splitting text into words and non-words
From:       Kevin Atkinson <kevinatk () home ! com>
Date:       1999-01-02 23:42:08
Message-ID: LYR14511-7986-1999.01.02-18.40.24--kevinatk#home.com () franklin ! oit ! unc ! edu
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Asger Alstrup Nielsen wrote:

> > And you can't always count words between two punctuation charters as
> > code because then a string like
> >
> >  .  Howevr,
> >
> > would mark Howevr as code when it is clearly part of a sentence.
> 
> No, since punctuation is dropped, this would be spellchecked.

Sorry I ment to say: And treating punctuation charters as code symbols
won't work either...
> 
>
> My approach to the problem was that I wanted the spellchecker to only throw
> away "words" that are known to be non-words, if possible, and keep others that
> we are not sure of.  But mostly, I just wanted to give you some feedback
> because you asked for it.  Of course it is possible to do better.  It seems
> your approach is suitable for that.

Sorry if I belittled you, that was not my intention. I just ment to
suggest an alternate approach.

And thanks for the feedback.

-- 
Kevin Atkinson
kevinatk@home.com
http://metalab.unc.edu/kevina/


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