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List:       aspell-user
Subject:    Re: [Aspell-user] Help adding word to dictionary?
From:       David O'Brien <daobrien () redhat ! com>
Date:       2016-12-20 23:31:58
Message-ID: 0900deb5-edef-aee2-7187-f3f3787dc015 () redhat ! com
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On 12/20/2016 04:10 PM, Kevin Atkinson wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Dec 2016, Ciarán Ó Duibhín wrote:
> 
>> True at present, unfortunately.  But in principle, an option could be
>> programmed, to make aspell accept "drop-down" when the dictionary
>> contains "drop" and "down".  The only manual additions to the
>> dictionary would then be words like "hotch-potch", because "hotch" and
>> "potch" are not in the dictionary.
>>
>> I think such an option would be generally useful, at least for
>> English, and incidentally would make aspell behave more like the
>> MS-Word spell-checker.
>>
>> I made such a modification a few years ago, and it worked to my own
>> satisfaction, but the code changes would require to be examined by
>> someone fully conversant with the workings of aspell before it could
>> be considered safe.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Aspell is now on GitHub if you care to submit a pull request.
> https://github.com/gnuaspell/aspell.
> 
> The other problem is the current dictionary does not have support for
> hyphenated words.  The words are in the source lists, but they get
> filtered.
> 
> Kevin
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I'm not a programmer or coder at all so can't contribute much there.
Happy to help in other ways if possible. I'm a tech writer and editor.

-- 

David





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