Re: option to add extra ignore characters

Hi,

Quoting Kevin Atkinson <[email protected]>:

> This question really belongs to [email protected]

Okay. I was thinking that I could make a patch. What I now did, was  
writing a sample text and checking what aspell puts into a user  
dictionary, if I add the words. Then I transform my wordlist  
accordingly.

Stefan
>
> On Mon, 8 Oct 2007, Stefan Kost wrote:
>
>> hi,
>>
>> I took another attempt at spell checking sources using
>> @(#) International Ispell Version 3.1.20 (but really Aspell 0.60.4)
>>
>> I run
>> aspell -c --mode=ccpp -p ./.aspell_dict.pws xxx.c
>>
>> and I create the personal dictionary from the tags file and   
>> file-name basenames. This is to automatically have a sensible   
>> wordlist. When trying to use the list I get error like this:
>>
>> Error: ./.aspell_dict.pws: The word "adapter_test" is invalid. The   
>> character '_' (U+5F) may not appear in the middle of a word.
>> Error: ./.aspell_dict.pws: The word "appendix-win32" is invalid.   
>> The character '3' (U+33) may not appear in the middle of a word.
>> Error: ./.aspell_dict.pws: The word "appendix-win32" is invalid.   
>> The character '3' (U+33) must be followed by an alphabetic character.
>>
>> I already started to muck with my /usr/lib/aspell/en.dat and adding
>> special ' -*- _ **- - -*- 1 -** 2 -** 3 -**
>> and so on. This helps with allowing to get rid of the *in the   
>> middle' warnings but not of the latter (must be followed by an   
>> alphabetic character).
>
> With Aspell You can only have one "special" character in a row.  Known
> Limitation.  I'm sure I have written about it before.
>
>> The personal dictionary starts with:
>> personal_ws-1.1 en 701
>>
>> What about having some 'dummy' language for this purpose? I mean,   
>> when using generated wordlists, I don't want any affix handling and  
>>  the like. Just adding these workds as valid words.
>
> That could work.  But if you start making numbers letters than every
> number will be marked as a misspelling is that really what you want?
>
>
>> While speaking of personal dictionaries, could aspell please save   
>> those sorted? If keeping them in the source repository it would be   
>> handy to have minimal diff.
>
> There is a patch to this effect:
>
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1333573&group_id=245&atid=300245