Citēju [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

>  Lars Aronsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Will the end user (of oowriter) notice any difference whether the
> > Myspell/Hunspell dictionary uses affix flags or not?  Is there any
> > added value in providing a spelling dictionary with flags, as
> > opposed to a flat list of word forms?
> Depends on the language.
> In English probably not with a modern computer.
> In German the word list is roughly 4-6 times larger, therefore startup would
> be much slower without affices.

for Latvian language the current, not very optimized dic gives ~30 times larger
file, when expanded. In the same time the dic has many entries without flags
(actually, "word" and "Word"), because some forms of words are uniquely
constucted and can not be aquired by using affixes (at least using MySpell).

Janis Eisaks
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