Carlo wrote, in reply to David O'Brien:
AFAIK changing the "special" line
[for English, to include special - -*- ]
and recompiling is not a solution, since (valid) words composed of two valid words joined by a hyphen should then be added (manually) to the dictionary.
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.
Ciarán Ó Duibhín. _______________________________________________ Aspell-user mailing list Aspell-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/aspell-user
