Re: [pspell-user] aspell vs. ispell

[Jeff Mace]

Kevin,

That module code did not get it to recognize the ispell module.  I am not
worried about it though.  However, I would like to not have tons of
alternatives to misspelled words.  Is there any easy way to do this?  I
was thinking of just printing out 10 or 15 suggestions, but I don't want
to leave out good suggestions.  Are the suggestions returned in any kind
of order? e.g. Most possible first.  Thanks.

Jeff Mace
Advanced Information Technologies
Center for Academic Computing
Pennsylvania State University

On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, Kevin Atkinson wrote:

> On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, Jeff Mace wrote:
>
> > I found the problem with it saying everything is misspelled.  It was
> > something I was doing.  Funny how "\nthe" doesn't equal "the" ;-).
> >
> > I have tried to set config to use ispell.  After the call the error number
> > is 0 so that tells me that it didn't have a problem with what I want.
> > Here is a bit of the code I am using.
> >
> >     fprintf(stderr, "start config\n");
> >     config = new_pspell_config();
> > fprintf(stderr, "made config\n");
> >     pspell_config_replace(config, "language-tag", "en");
> >         pspell_config_replace(config, "add-word-list-path",
> > "/usr/local2/share/pspell/");
> >      pspell_config_replace(config, "module", "ispell");
>
> Unfortunately Pspell does not look at the module setting when choosing a
> appropriate dictionary to use.  You want to do something like:
>   pspell_config_replace(config, "rem-all-module-search-order", "");
>   pspell_config_replace(config, "add-module-search-order", "ispell");
>
> But now that you bring it up I will consider having Pspell use the
> "module" setting.
>
> >      pspell_config_replace(config, "spelling", "english");
>
> You misunderstand how to spelling setting is used.  From the manual: the
> requested spelling for languages with more than one spelling such as
> English. Known values are ``american'', ``british'', and ``canadian''.
> This information is normally inferred from the language-tag option. For
> example the language tag ``en_GB'' will set spelling to ``british''.
>
> Although this is not a problem it will just be ignored.
>
> >
> >     ret = new_pspell_manager(config);
> >      checker = 0;
> >      if (pspell_error_number(ret) != 0) {
> >                     fprintf(stderr, "%s\n",
> > pspell_error_message(ret));
> >                     fprintf(stderr, "error message area\n");
> >      } else {
> >                     checker = to_pspell_manager(ret);
> >         }
> >
> > That is pretty much straight out of the manual.  Do you see anything wrong
> > there?  Thanks for your help.
>
> --
> Kevin Atkinson
> kevina at users sourceforge net
> http://www.ibiblio.org/kevina/
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