Re: Composed Words

On Mon, 4 Sep 2006, Alexandre Rodrigues wrote:

> In portuguese language we have composed words which are separated by hifen
> (ex. guarda-roupa). When i try to create a master dictionary using a word
> list aspell says that hifen "-" is an invalid caracter.
> Using the option --dont-validate-words, i got no erros but the .rws file was
> empty.
>
> Does anyone knows if there is someway to create a dictionary with composed
> words

If you really want then you can use "special" option in the language data 
file.  See http://aspell.net/man-html/The-Language-Data-File.html.

However, please use this option with extreme care.  Adding the hyphen will 
now cause Aspell to treat _every_ string with a hyphen in it as one word. 
If that exact string is not in the dictionary than it will be flagged as a 
misspelled word.  For example if you type "foo-bar" and the "foo-bar" is 
is not in the dictionary than it will be flagged as misspelled even if 
"foo" and "bar" are in the dictionary.  See:
   http://aspell.net/man-html/Words-With-Symbols-in-Them.html