Re: [aspell-devel] Two questions about run-together words, and affixes

[Kevin Atkinson]

On Mon, 11 Dec 2006, Gora Mohanty wrote:

> (a) Run-together words: It seems that for a long mispelled word that
>    is close to two smaller words, aspell first suggests combinations
>    of shorter words. For example, in English, "ratdog" turns up
>    "rat dog" and "rat-dog" as the first two suggestions. I had
>    thought that this was because of run-together words, but using
>    "run-together false" in the .dat file does not seem to make a
>    difference. I understand why one would want to have run-together
>    words in the suggestion, but is there any way I could eliminate
>    them (for example, one does not hyphenate words in Hindi), or
>    use a weighting to reduce their importance, so that they appear
>    later in the list of suggestions.

See, sug-split-char, if it is set to the empty list than it won't try to 
split the words.

> (b) Affix rules: Though affix rules seem to be working properly for
>    Hindi, is there any way that I could have aspell accept, e.g.,
>    "word + suffix" as correct, when only "word" is in the dictionary,
>    but there is an affix rule for "word + suffix"? Alternatively,
>    would it be possible for "word + suffix" to appear as the first
>    suggestion in such a case? The reason that this would be useful
>    is that Hindi makes a lot of use of suffices, and without these
>    being marked correct, an auto-spellchecked document gets cluttered
>    with spurious underlinings.

The "guess" option will sort-of do what you want.

You should really add the appropriate flags to the base forms.