Christopher Faylor wrote: > Isn't aspell superior to ispell? This is from the ispell web page: > > "What's the Difference Between Ispell and Aspell? > Aspell is a spelling checker written by Kevin Atkinson. Its primary > advantage is that it is better at making suggestions when a word is > seriously misspelled. For example, when given "trubble", ispell will > suggest only "rubble", where aspell suggests "trouble" (as its first > choice" as well as "dribble", "rubble", and a lot of other words. Its > disadvantage is that the approximate-matching algorithm is specific to > English." > > That is not much of a disadvantage, IMO. If it works as well as ispell > for every language besides English and works better for English then > aspell is better. >
I don't disagree. Although I am not a user of aspell, it looks like "it" (see * below) will eventually replace ispell. However I have no experience with it and looking at its home page http://aspell.sourceforge.net it doesn't seem to be stable. I'd rather not take responsibility for it at this point. (*) there is a proposed merge with pspell http://pspell.sourceforge.net/merge.html So let me rephrase the question: is there value having ispell under setup (soon), even if it is replaced some day by a/pspell, knowing that it is already available on ftp.franken.de ? Pierre