Re: [Aspell-user] Hyphens and apostrophes in words

[Kevin Atkinson]

Hi All,

Aspell author here.

Aspell does not support what I think you are after very well. That is 
why it is not enabled by default in the English dictionary.  For some 
insight on why see: 
http://aspell.net/man-html/Words-With-Symbols-in-Them.html

Changing the language data file should be able to force Aspell to accept 
them when compiling a dictionary but Aspell won't necessary be able to 
check them within a document.

Rather than modifying the data file, when compiling a dictionary you can 
force Aspell to accept any word by using the "--dont-validate-words" 
argument.  To spellchecker with these special words you need to keep 
Aspell from trying to tokenize a string into words (i.e, "hello world!" 
gets split into "hello" and "world").  I think you need to use the C API 
for this.

I hope this all makes sense.

Kevin.