Ispell 3.2 is primarily a bug-fix release, but a number of new
features are important to users:
- There is a new interactive mode. If ispell is invoked without
arguments, it will prompt for words and suggest corrections.
- The emacs interface (ispell.el and ispell.texinfo) is no
longer distributed with ispell. Use the code that comes with
emacs, or pick it up from:
ftp://kdstevens.com/pub/stevens/ispell.el.gz
or the matching ispell.el home page:
http://www.kdstevens.com/~stevens/ispell-page.html
- There is now an HTML mode. It is automatically selected for
files ending in ".html", ".htm", or ".shtml". It can also be
chosen manually with the -H switch.
- There is a new general-purpose deformatter switch, -F. This
switch, which was suggested by Ron Guilmette, allows an
external program to perform deformatting for ispell. The -F
switch opens the door to completely generalized spell checking
with ispell. Want to spell-check your C/C++ comments? A
simple deformatter filter will do the job. See the ispell
manual page for details.
- The annoying "TeX backslash bug" is now fixed correctly.
- TeX/LaTeX deformatting is now somewhat configurable. Check
out the -k switch and TEXSKIP1 in the manual page.
Also include the irix patches from PR pkg/26925 from Georg Schwarz.
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