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

[Jim Ereaux]

Hi Dan,

Thanks for the response. I do have word lists for each language. Both  
tribes are unique bands and have similar, but distinct alphabets and  
words.

 My question, which I may have not presented well, is how can I  
create a word list for Aspell on Mac OSX? From what I can glean in  
the docs I need to have Aspell (Unix) installed to generate the word  
list and subsequent dictionary files. However, I don't necessarily  
want to install Aspell on the Mac as I would like to use cocoAspell.  
The follow-on question is whether I can install just enough of Aspell  
to generate a word list without using it for spelling services.

Again, I'm brand new to this and need to learn from the ground up. I  
searched the archives but didn't find any hints.

Thanks,

Fred

On Nov 26, 2006, at 2:47 AM, Dan Kenigsberg wrote:

> 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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