[aspell-devel] Spell check hyphenated words

[Gary Setter]

I've been looking at the speller_impl and suggest code and
thinking about spell check hyphenated words.

The apparent problem seemed to me that aspell would present an a
choice, a misspelled word broken up into a hyphenated word, but
that choice would not go into the replacements dictionary, and it
would be flagged as an error.

The solution to the first problem might be to replace the call to
check_affix in SpellerImpl::store_replacement with a check that
breaks the correction into its parts by all the characters under
the sug-split-char key of configuration.

The solution to the second problem might be to splice that new
"break word into its parts" function into the
SpellerImpl::check() family of functions.

The problem with the second solution is that it would make every
combination-of words-no matter of they belonged-together or not
into correctly spelled word.

You could choose not to recheck a word that the user has chosen.
But that would not be good if the user typed in a word with the
replace command and mistyped the correction.

How about this, if the user responds to a misspelled word by
choosing one from the menu, accept it and move on. If he uses
replace, check if it is misspelled and if so, present a brief
menu with just add and ignore.

As an alternative, you could add yet another key into the
configuration to specify whether to reprompt for replacements
that are misspelled.

I would also suggest removing the check for spaces from
CheckerString::next_misspelling().