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- added buildlink2.mk for applications using aspell and pspell - updated DESCR Changes: Aspell has undergone an extremely large number of changes since the previous Aspell/Pspell release. For one thing Pspell has been merged with Aspell so there in no longer two separate libraries you have to worry about. Because of the massive changes between Aspell/Pspell and Aspell 0.50 you may want to clean out the old files before installing the the new Aspell. To do so do a "make uninstall" in the original Aspell and Pspell source directories. The way dictionaries are handled has also changed. This includes a change in the naming conventions of both language names and dictionaries. Due to the language name change, your old personal dictionaries will not be recognized. However, you can import the old dictionaries by running the "aspell-import" script. This also means that dictionaries designed to work with older versions of Aspell are not likely to function correctly. Fortunately new dictionary packages are available for most languages. You can find them off of the Aspell home page at http://aspell.net. The Pspell ABI is now part of Aspell except that the name of everything has changed due to the renaming of Pspell to Aspell. In particular please note the following name changes: pspell -> aspell manager -> speller emulation -> enumeration master_word_list -> main_word_list Please also note that the name of the language-tag option has changed to lang. However, for backward compatible the language-tag option will still work. However, you should also be able to build applications that require Pspell with the new Aspell as a backward compatibility header file is provided. Due to a change in the way dictionaries are handled, scanning for .pwli files in order to get find out which dictionaries are available will no longer work. This means that programs that relied on this technique may have problems finding dictionaries. Fortunately, GNU Aspell now provided a uniform way to list all installed dictionaries via the C API. See the file "list-dicts.c" in the examples/ directory for an example of how to due this. Unfortunately there is isn't any simply way to find out which dictionaries are installed which will work with both the old Aspell/Pspell and the new GNU Aspell.
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GNU Aspell is a Free and Open Source spell checker designed to eventually
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replace Ispell. It can either be used as a library or as an independent spell
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checker. Its main feature is that it does a much better job of coming up with
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possible suggestions than just about any other spell checker out there for the
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English language, including Ispell and Microsoft Word. It also has many other
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technical enhancements over Ispell such as using shared memory for dictionaries
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and intelligently handling personal dictionaries when more than one Aspell
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process is open at once.
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