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List:       aspell-user
Subject:    Re: [Aspell-user] numbers
From:       Kevin Atkinson <kevina () gnu ! org>
Date:       2004-09-23 13:22:17
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.44.0409230717100.1671-100000 () kevin-p3 ! atkinson ! dhs ! org
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On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Scott Justus wrote:

> Has the spelling been upgraded to include numbers?....it keeps spell
> checking numbers

Do you mean it is marking every number as a misspelling such as "101"?  If 
so than something is wrong.  If you mean things like "4th" than no Aspell 
can not treat "4th" as one word.  Instead it ignores the number part and 
tries to spell check "th".

From: http://aspell.net/man-html/Words-With-Symbols-in-Them.html

  Numbers in words present a different challenge to Aspell. If Aspell 
  treats numbers as letters than every possible number a user might write 
  in a document must be specified in the dictionary. This could be easily 
  be solved by having special code to assume all numbers are correctly 
  spelled. But what about something like "4th". Since the "th" suffix can 
  appear  after any number we are left with the same problem. The solution 
  would be to have a special symbol for "any number".

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