[Aspell-user] Can I get "edit distance" for the suggestions?

[Ethan Bradford]

I'm mystified as to how the definition of

AspellStringEnumeration is hidden from us, so I can't peek inside of that.  It seems obvious from the outside that edit distance ( i.e. the # of changes necessary to get from the checked word to a proposed suggestion) is used to sort the results presented to the user.  I'd like to use outside information to sort the results with equal edit distance w.r.t . eachother.  So how do I get the edit distance?

-- Ethan

p.s. the Arabic project is going well.  We can generate an Aspell db that has the full coverage of Buckwalter's data.  It over-generates a little bit, though, but we're well on the way to solving that, too.  It's time to start thinking about how to get the results available for general distribution.  It will be a little bit tricky because we want to keep the Buckwalter data as primary, so that if you want to add a word or change an affix rule, you would edit those files and run our scripts again.