Re: Help adding word to dictionary?

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From: David O'Brien <[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: [Aspell-user] Help adding word to dictionary?
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On 12/20/2016 04:10 PM, Kevin Atkinson wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Dec 2016, Ciar=C3=A1n =C3=93 Duibh=C3=ADn wrote:
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>> True at present, unfortunately.  But in principle, an option could be
>> programmed, to make aspell accept "drop-down" when the dictionary
>> contains "drop" and "down".  The only manual additions to the
>> dictionary would then be words like "hotch-potch", because "hotch" and=

>> "potch" are not in the dictionary.
>>
>> I think such an option would be generally useful, at least for
>> English, and incidentally would make aspell behave more like the
>> MS-Word spell-checker.
>>
>> I made such a modification a few years ago, and it worked to my own
>> satisfaction, but the code changes would require to be examined by
>> someone fully conversant with the workings of aspell before it could
>> be considered safe.
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> Hi,
>=20
> Aspell is now on GitHub if you care to submit a pull request.
> https://github.com/gnuaspell/aspell.
>=20
> The other problem is the current dictionary does not have support for
> hyphenated words.  The words are in the source lists, but they get
> filtered.
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> Kevin
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I'm not a programmer or coder at all so can't contribute much there.
Happy to help in other ways if possible. I'm a tech writer and editor.

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David





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