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 > _______________________________________________ > Aspell-user mailing list > Aspell-user@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/aspell-user
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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