Re: Ispell question

[Kevin Atkinson]

On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, Dror Comay wrote:


Yes you can.  Pipe the list through "ispell -e".  You will still need to
do some post proccing to put each word on its own line but that should not
be difficult.  See the ispell manual page for more info.

> Hi,
> 
> For reasons outside the scope of this Email, i need to generate entire
> word lists for several languages. By en entire word list i mean that
> each word will appear with all it's affixes.
> Is there an easy way to generate an entire word list given an Ispell
> dictionary and an affixes file ?
> For example, the ispell dictionary line:
>             spell/DGJRSZ
> will generate the following lines:
>             spell
>             spelled
>             speller
>             spellers
>             spelling
>             spellings
>             spells
> I did it via a perl script with the english language (took about an hour
> to write), but spanish, for example, have a very long affixes file that
> will take me days to write a script for.