Hi! I just read about Aspell on freshmeat, and figured this is a great project. I'm a member of the LyX development team, and I would like to use a different spell checker than ispell. It seems Aspell fits the job! So, the question is: How should this be done? I browsed the documentation you have on the web-site, and saw that you already implemented a ispell -a compatibility mode, so it should be possible to use this. However, that solution is not optional. I rould rather see that Aspell is provided as a library which the LyX code can link against, and then use the Aspell API to get the job done. That would ensure maximum speed and flexibility. Can Aspell be compiled to a library already, or are there any plans to do this? Do you have other ideas for how to do this? At the moment, the LyX team is working in two branches: Finalizing of LyX v1.0, and doing a lot of work on the development series 1.1. In the 1.1 series, we have adopted the STL, and use it a lot. So this fits right in with the approach in Aspell. If LyX would come with Aspell support, and we could boast that it is much better than the Microsoft Word spellchecker, the result would be to the benefit of both Aspell and LyX. However, in order to do so, Aspell has to support more languages than English. So regarding word lists for other languages than English - check out this site: http://www.win-uk.net/~hyphen/wordlist.html At the bottom, there is a link to an ftp-site where word-lists for many, many languages are available: ftp://ftp.ox.ac.uk/pub/wordlists/ It seems they are in the public domain, and thus they should be available for use in Aspell without problems. I suppose it is possible to write a small program that takes a file and produces an alphabet from it. Given that, it should be relatively easy to generate the language definition files Aspell needs.. I've downloaded Aspell and will try to get it running with the Danish dictionary when I have time. Greets, Asger Alstrup --- Note: This message was origanlly posted to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ aspell-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/aspell-user
