Re: [aspell-devel] support for compound words and word skipping by context

[Kevin Atkinson]

On Sat, 27 Mar 2004, Chris Hornbaker wrote:

> On Saturday 27 March 2004 01:50, Kevin Atkinson wrote:
> > On Sat, 27 Mar 2004, Chris Hornbaker wrote:
> > > Being able to say (C=consonant; V=vowel; Y=y hyphen; R=r hyphen; N=n
> > > hyphen):
> > >
> > > If CVC and CVV/CVC come together and the make a non-permissible consonant
> > > pair, then place Y between them.
> > > If CVV and CVC/CVV come together, then place R between them unless R
> > > creates a non-permissible consonant pair, in which case place N between
> > > them. etc...
> >
> > Ok thanks for the info.
> 
> Oh, for the second "If...", I should have said:
> If, within the first five characters, excluding y and ', CVV and CVC/CVV come 
> together, then place R between them unless R creates a non-permissible 
> consonant pair, in which case place N between them.
> 
> >
> > > Would be great. Of course, I'd have to be able to define what a
> > > permissible consonant pair is. Also, being able to define /where/ words
> > > can connect at would be a big help in controlling compound words.
> >
> > By where do you mean controlling which words can be combined?  If so maybe,
> > if it doesn't get too complicated.
> 
> I'm not sure. In the word list would allow for the most precision, but I'm 
> not 
> sure how that would affect other things.

I can easily store a tag with the word.  So you can say add rules such as 
a valid compound word is:
  A + B  but not B + C.
That can be done fairly easily.  provided there are not too many 
categories.  I am thinking up to 250 or so. 

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