On Dec 30, 2012, at 10:59 PM, Kevin Atkinson <k...@kevina.org> wrote:
> > First off sorry about the other email, the mailing list software removed the > attachments and converted your message to plain text. I got the attachments > in the copy you sent direct to me. Notes below. > > On Sun, 30 Dec 2012, William H. Magill wrote: > >> On Dec 30, 2012, at 11:41 AM, Kevin Atkinson <k...@kevina.org> wrote: >> I'm not sure what the problem is. If you could attach the .aspell.en.pws I >> might have a better idea. >> >> I've done a bit more "research" and have noted the following: >> >> 1- if I delete .aspell.en.pws and re-run aspell-import >> the error message does not appear. >> Then running "ispell" on the emacs buffer, it appears to work with no issues. >> The file in question which I am editing is an html file. >> >> 2- >> A) If I then (using emacs) delete the first line and save the file as s.1 >> B) then sort s.1>s.2 >> C) read s.2 and tack on the original first line from the original file and >> save it again as .aspell.en.pws >> D) the error occurs: >> Error: /Users/magill/.aspell.en.pws: The word "personal_ws-1.1 en 635 " is >> invalid. The character '\ >> _' (U+5F) may not appear in the middle of a word. >> E) the file size is the same in either situation. > > Have another look of the file, the line "personal_ws-1.1 en 635 " is also in > the middle of the file. Duh ... what I get for using search instead of grep :) >> 3- During a run of aspell-import, I get a number of errors about /M and >> similar ispell suffixes. > > There are affix flags that the personal dictionary can't handle. Something > like this should fix it by expanding the affixes; for example "Absalom/M" > will become "Absalom" and "Absalom's": > > cat ~/A-ispell_english | aspell --lang=en expand | tr ' ' '\n' \ > > A-ispell_english.fixed > > The key part is "aspell expand". The "tr" command is used to convert spaces > to newlines. Worked like a charm. Thanks. T.T.F.N. William H. Magill # iMac11,3 Core i7 [2.93GHz - 8 GB 1067MHz] OS X 10.8.2 # MacBook Pro4.1 Core 2 Duo [2.5GHz - 4GB 667] OS X 10.6.8 # Macmini6,1 Intel Core i5 [2.5 Ghz - 4GB 1600MHz] OS X 10.8.1 mag...@mac.com whmag...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Aspell-user mailing list Aspell-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/aspell-user