lisp interface to ispell ?

[Andreas Politz]

Hi,

ispell surely is a nice package, but sadly it's user-interface seems to
closely tied to it's functionality.

Does someone have a hack, or know a different package, in order to allow
elisp access to spelling functions ? E.g. like

(spell word language)

which at least returns t or nil.

The background is, that I am using a germnan input-method and it
frequently constructs words ,due to the contextless construction of
umlauts, which do not exists in _any_ language.

-ap