Re: [Aspell-user] Aspell dictionaries for Mac OSX

[Dan Kenigsberg]

I think you are confusing two different things (please correct me if I'm wrong):
the easy thing is to make Aspell work on you environment of choice. I don't have
Mac myself, but I was told that indeed cocoAspell can load international aspell
dictionaries and make them available to Mac's spelling service.

The hard thing is to actually generate a word list, and make it available to
aspell. Do you already have the list of words in your language? From my
experience (in Hebrew), the task of word collecting is by far the hardest. By
the way, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salishan_languages I gather that it
won't be so easy to generate a complete list of all words in your language(s)
because they are said to be agglutinative (words can be joined to create other
words); maybe it would be easier with hunspell, but I have no clue about that.

Anyway, to sum it up, first and foremost is having a plain list of words. When
you have that, everything else is mostly technicalities.

On Sat, Nov 25, 2006 at 02:37:55PM -0700, Jim Ereaux wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I developed several Unicode/Opentype fonts for the Salish and  
> Kootenai alphabets and now want to work on a dictionary to support  
> these fonts. I'm brand new to dictionaries, so I need some assistance  
> learning about Aspell. It appears that cocoAspell may be a good  
> solution for adding a dictionary to Mac OSX spelling services. What I  
> need to do now is create both  Salish and a Kootenai dictionaries  
> that are based on Aspell. However, after reviewing the information on  
> the Aspell site, I don't know what I specifically need to do to  
> accomplish this on a Mac. I saw instructions on how to use Fink to  
> install Aspell...but I don't believe I need to do this as I already  
> have cocoAspell. Do I need to install X11 and then run Aspell from  
> within that to create a dictionary?
> 
> Any help will be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Fred

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