[aspell-devel] Plans For Aspell 0.61

[Kevin Atkinson]

I am planning on release Aspell 0.61 within a couple of months.  Here is 
the current TODO file for Aspell 0.61.  The latest version of this file 
can be found via CVS or at 
http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/aspell/aspell/TODO-0.61?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup

THINGS I AM WORKING ON:

1) 
Be able to store the same base word multiple times which makes sence
when cross products are involved.

2)
Create a generic filter to handle multi-character letters such as "a
or \"a for ä. This filter should make use of the already exiting
normalization code if possible.  Also:

  Allow language specific multi-character conversions.

  Allow the encoding option to use the generic multi-character
  conversions when it makes sense.

This will effectly allow Aspell to handle multi-character letters as
well as Ispell which is the one major area Ispell is currently better
than Aspell.

3) 
Rewrite the document checker interface to correctly handle the case
when the replacement is more than one word.

4) 
Create a special pipe mode that ignores special charaters at the
beginning of a line so that a user can feed it a text file as is.


THINKS OTHERS ARE WORKING ON:

1) 
Expand prezip-bin to also support compressing in the
same format that "word-list-compress" so that the word-list-compress
program can be removed and replaced with a link to prezip-bin (or if
really necessary a shell script). [Jose Da Silva]

2) 
Possible improve writable.cpp to make it easier to understand and
add additional features. [Gary Setter]


OTHER POSSIBILITIES:

Develop a more powerfull C API for Aspell. Ideally this API should
allow one to perform all the tasks the Aspell utility can do. This
included the ability to check whole documents, and create
dictionaries, among other things.