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Subject: Re: [aspell] Announce: Aspell .30
From: Kevin Atkinson <kevinatk () home ! com>
Date: 2000-04-05 1:32:17
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.10.10004042130430.826-100000 () kevins-linux
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On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote:
> Kevin Atkinson proclaimed:
> > On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote:
> > > While updating I saw that the usage documentation in
> > > the various formats are written in a language that is not easily
> > > understandable.
> > Could you elaborate.
>
> >From the "usage" section in the docs:
>
> --home-dir=«dir»
> location for personal files
>
> -W,--ignore=«integer»
> ignore words <= n chars
>
> --add|rem-email-quote=«char»
> email quote characters
>
> --email-margin=«integer»
> num chars that can appear before the quote char
>
>
>
> etc.
>
> A non-technical user trying to spell check a simple document will see the
> above tucked away in the documentation (I base my aspell man page on this
> section of the documentation). And much of this is difficult to understand
> just by glancing at the usage section. Even for me, a person who has an
> education in works in the software industry.
Also see sections 3.2, 3.3, 3.4.... Which explain how to use aspell for
various tasks.
>
> IMO, a user is most interested in using aspell first. Only after frequent
> usage does a user bother to read up further on the software (like
> customization, internals etc.).
>
> > > Kevin, if the command line options are decently baked at this point, I
> > > could try rewriting the usage documentation.
> > I don't plan on changing them but no promises.
> >
> > Please do. However, if your rewrite has any formatting please either use
> > LyX or edit the TeX source trying to use the same formatting commands I
> > use throughout the document so I can easily reLyX it.
>
> I am planning to use LyX. I will send you patches as and when I have them
> ready.
Ok thanks.
---
Kevin Atkinson
kevinatk@home.com
http://metalab.unc.edu/kevina/
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