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Subject: Re: [Aspell-user] Trying to get aspell to do it my way
From: Kevin Atkinson <kevina () gnu ! org>
Date: 2010-03-14 23:22:02
Message-ID: alpine.BSF.2.00.1003141711180.50752 () bas ! flux ! utah ! edu
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On Sun, 14 Mar 2010, David Epstein wrote:
> Kevin Atkinson wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, 13 Mar 2010, David Epstein wrote:
>>> I'm not sure what effect en_US-w_accents has. I would appreciate
>>> enlightenment.
>>
>> It contains the correctly accented version of the words. By default they
>> are not included since it is generally considered acceptable to leave them
>> off (especially in things like email).
>>
>
> Does w_accents deal with adding apostrophe s?
No.
> Since I am usually checking LaTeX, where accents are determined by control
> sequences, it seems as though I should not use the w_accents version of the
> aspell dictionary. Is there a mechanism (not too complicated) to get aspell
> to treat na\"ive and caf\'e as correct?
Not with Aspell 0.60, 0.61 has this feature.
> Kevin Atkinson wrote:
>>
>> Did you try checking cafe (with and without the accent, I can never
>> remember
>> how to type accents on my keyboard)
>>
>
> I have now tried this. Here is the result of a hexdump of the file:
> c a f e \n c a f 303 251 \n
> aspell --master en_US-w_accents
> objected to both spellings. It did not offer to replace either by café. I
> suppose my encoding of é is different from that in aspell, but I wonder why
> I was only offered a change to "caf?"
This is a known bug that is fixed in CVS.
> Another question:
> How does aspell use my .prepl replacement list? It seems to just do blindly
> the replacements it finds there, without asking me, but maybe I'm imagining
> things. It would surely be wrong not to ask, since the replacement may be
> correct in one context but not in another.
>
> I found the option "ignore-repl", but this is said to "ignore commands to
> store". I can't find an option that says "ignore commands to read".
I think you are misunderstanding what the replacement list is used for. See
section 6.3 of the manual:
http://aspell.net/man-html/Notes-on-Storing-Replacement-Pairs.html
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