No longer needs ncurses (at least on NetBSD 5.0).
Official changelog:
2008-11-01: Hunspell 1.2.8 release:
- Default BREAK feature and better hyphenated word suggestion to accept
and fix (compound) words with hyphen characters by spell checker
instead of by work breaking code of OpenOffice.org. With this feature
it's possible to accept hyphenated compound words, such as "scot-free",
where "scot" is not a correct English word.
- ICONV & OCONV: input and output conversion tables for optional character
handling or using special inner format. Example:
# Accepting de facto replacements of the Romanian comma acuted letters
SET UTF-8
ICONV 4
ICONV Å È
ICONV Å£ È
ICONV Å È
ICONV Å¢ È
Typical usage of ICONV/OCONV is to manage an inner format for a segmental
writing system, like the Ethiopic script of the Amharic language.
- Extended CHECKCOMPOUNDPATTERN to handle conpound word alternations, like
sandhi feature of Telugu and other writing systems.
- SIMPLIFIEDTRIPLE compound word feature: allow simplified Swedish and
Norwegian compound word forms, like tillåta (till|låta) and
bussjåfør (buss|sjåfør)
- wordforms: word generator script for dictionary developers (Hunspell
version of unmunch).
- bug fixes
2008-08-15: Hunspell 1.2.7 release:
- FULLSTRIP: new option for affix handling. With FULLSTRIP, affix rules can
strip full words, not only one less characters.
- COMPOUNDRULE works with all flag types. (COMPOUNDRULE is for pattern
matching. For example, en_US dictionary of OpenOffice.org uses COMPOUNDRULE
for ordinal number recognition: 1st, 2nd, 11th, 12th, 22nd, 112th, 1000122nd
etc.).
- optimized suggestions:
- modified 1-character distance suggestion algorithms: search a TRY character
in all position instead of all TRY characters in a character position
(it can give more readable suggestion order, also better suggestions
in the first positions, when TRY characters are sorted by frequency.)
For example, suggestions for "moze":
ooze, doze, Roze, maze, more etc. (Hunspell 1.2.6),
maze, more, mote, ooze, mole etc. (Hunspell 1.2.7).
- extended compound word checking for better COMPOUNDRULE related
suggestions, for example English ordinal numbers: 121323th -> 121323rd
(it needs also a th->rd REP definition).
- bug fixes
2008-07-15: Hunspell 1.2.6 release:
- bug fix release (fix affix rule condition checking of sk_SK dictionary,
iconv support in stemming and morphological analysis of the Hunspell
utility, see also Changelog)
2008-07-09: Hunspell 1.2.5 release:
- bug fix release (fix affix rule condition checking of en_GB dictionary,
also morphological analysis by dictionaries with two-level suffixes)
2008-06-18: Hunspell 1.2.4-2 release:
- fix GCC compiler warnings
2008-06-17: Hunspell 1.2.4 release:
- add free_list() for C, C++ interfaces to deallocate suggestion lists
- bug fixes
2008-06-17: Hunspell 1.2.3 release:
- extended XML interface to use morphological functions by standard
spell checking interface, spell() and suggest(). See hunspell.3 manual page.
- default dash suggestions for compound words: newword-> new word and new-word
- new manual pages: hunspell.3, hzip.1, hunzip.1.
- bug fixes
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
