BJ wrote: -------- >Ispell and aspell both don't have sufficient support for >agglutinative languages with complex compound word rules, >unfortunately.
Just for the sake of fairness and to be precise: Ispell is the first spell checker, that introduced the powerful affix concept especially for agglutinative languages. Agglutinative languages do not have complex (or any) compound word rules necessarily or at all. For example the agglutinative, turanian type language, Turkish uses compound words just very sparsely. Ispell is an excellent product, and without it's superior concept I seriously doubt, that we had such really high quality tools like myspell or its successor, hunspell. Aspell started as a very good suggestion speller, but an absolutely poor checker for agglutinative languages without affixing. Since its author had the ambition to replace ispell, he introduced affix concept from version 0.6, in fact, from last year. However he does not have yet forbidden word concept, neither two folded affixing, which is a useful second level word count reduction concept (For Hungarian it reduces 1.01 million words to 830 thousand). Regards: Eleonora --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
