Re: Table for ispell settings!

[James Alan Brown]

Dear Vlad,

> do you suggest users to recompile AW (after editing ispell.h to match settings of their hash   file) for it to be able to work with their hash file?

Yes I do Vlad

So far apart from the original ( still supplied) american.hash all the main Linux
distributions supply ispell with the format of  8-bit 128 string characters and 56 flags
(certainly true with the med and xlg hash files)

Although there are some 7-bit variants out there too. (we need to test them)!

If you want to use the easy to get hold of  language hash files then these setting seem to work fine, albeit, if you want just USA spelling using the original american.hash then leave the ispell header alone.

Yes change the ispell.h entering those numbers and put your wanted  language file in your abi/dictionary folder or rename it as LittleEndian.mylanguage.hash   and replace the LittleEndianamerican.hash in your /abi/dictionary folde with your new one.

Then change the “make” file  where it installs the default american.hash to the name of your wanted mylanguage.hash file. (Now that I fully understand how it functions)

Set your pref file to select your new hash dictionary and then re-compile AbiWord.

I will post a list of all the language.hash files that work with those settings and if others could tell me of any that don’t work I will re-do the ispell to automatically select the correct perimeters.

britishmed.hash, britishxlg.hash, americanmed.hash and american.xlg.hash all work fine with these new settings.

I will test out the Italian and Spanish  hash files tomorrow and try to work out a list.

I am working on cleaning up all the AbiWord spell/ files at the moment. 

Regards,
James