pkgsrc change:
buildlink3.mk:
Bump API_DEPENDS, since shlib name changed. No dependencies in pkgsrc.
Release notes:
2008-04-12: Hunspell 1.2.2 release:
- extended dictionary (dic file) support to use multiple base and
special dictionaries.
- new and improved options of command line hunspell:
-m: morphological analysis or flag debug mode (without affix
rule data it signs the flag of the affix rules)
-s: stemming mode
-D: list available dictionaries and search path
-d: support extra dictionaries by comma separated list. Example:
hunspell -d en_US,en_med,de_DE,de_med,de_geo UNESCO.txt
- forbidding in personal dictionary (with asterisk, / signs affixation)
- optional compressed dictionary format "hzip" for aff and dic files
usage:
hzip example.aff example.dic
mv example.aff example.dic /tmp
hunspell -d example
hunzip example.aff.hz >example.aff
hunzip example.dic.hz >example.dic
- new affix compression tool "affixcompress": compression tool for
large (millions of words) dictionaries.
- support encrypted dictionaries for closed OpenOffice.org extensions or
other commercial programs
- improved manual
- bug fixes
2007-11-01: Hunspell 1.2.1 release:
- new memory efficient condition checking algorithm for affix rules
- new morphological functions:
- stem() for stemming
- analyze() for morphological analysis
- generate() for morphological generation
- new demos:
- analyze: stemming, morphological analysis and generation
- chmorph: morphological conversion of texts
updated to latest version by me:
Hunspell is the default spell checker of OpenOffice.org office suite
and expectant spell checker of Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird.
Main features:
* Unicode support.
* Conditional and multiple affixes for languages with rich morphology.
* Extended compound word support.
* Morphological analysis (in custom item and arrangement style).
* Hunspell is based on MySpell and works also with MySpell dictionaries.
* GPL/LGPL/MPL tri-license
