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Re: Questions about alternative dicts..
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Kevin Atkinson |
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Re: Questions about alternative dicts.. |
Date: |
Thu, 04 Mar 1999 21:29:45 -0500 |
Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am in the process of packaging aspell's alternative dictionaries into
> Debian GNU/Linux packages. I have a couple of questions -
>
> * Should I be packaging each alternative dictionary in each available size
> into a package of its own? I mean should I have seperate packages for
> british_small, british_medium, british_large, ..., american_small etc.?
> What exactly is the difference between the various sizes? Is it speed or
> size?
The diffrence is size. This dictinaris are almost identical to the
ispell dictionaries. From ispell's README file:
The English-language dictionary comes in four sizes: small,
medium, large, and extra-large. I recommend using the medium
dictionary unless you are very short on space. The small and
medium dictionaries have been hand-checked against a paper
dictionary to improve their accuracy. This is not true of the two
larger ones. The large and extra-large dictionaries contain
less-frequently-used words, and most sites will not want to pay
the price of storing them, especially because they may contain
errors. Also, a large dictionary can hide misspellings of short
words because there is some similar word that nobody uses. (For
example, the crossword-puzzle favorite "ort" can hide misspellings
of "or".)
>
> * Debian GNU/Linux allows packages to have a post-installation script. If
> the difference between the various dictionary sizes is speed, I shall
> probably create one package per alternate language and let the user choose
> a size at install time (via the post-installation script).
How does debian handle the diffrent sizes for ispell dictionaries? If
you do give the user a choice you should also display the informative
information in the file "config" which has the above quote in it (with
minor modifications)
--
Kevin Atkinson
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