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GNU Aspell 0.50.3

Copyright (c) 2000-2002
Kevin Atkinson
kevina@gnu.org

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• Contents
• 1. Introduction
  • 1.1 Comparison to other spell checker engines
    • 1.1.1 Comparison to Ispell
      • 1.1.1.1 Features that only Aspell has
      • 1.1.1.2 Things that, currently, only Ispell have
• 2. Getting Started
  • 2.1 Requirements
  • 2.2 Obtaining
  • 2.3 Support
  • 2.4 Helping Out
  • 2.5 Compiling & Installing
    • 2.5.1 Generic Install Instructions
    • 2.5.2 General Problems
    • 2.5.3 Curses Notes
    • 2.5.4 Upgrading from Aspell .33/Pspell .12
    • 2.5.5 Upgrading from a pre-release snapshot
    • 2.5.6 Win32 Notes
      • 2.5.6.1 Getting
      • 2.5.6.2 Building
      • 2.5.6.3 (PD)Curses
      • 2.5.6.4 Directories
      • 2.5.6.5 Installer
      • 2.5.6.6 Win32 consoles
  • 2.6 Using aspell-import
• 3. Basic Usage
  • 3.1 Spellchecking Individual Files
  • 3.2 Using Aspell with other Applications
    • 3.2.1 With Applications that Expect Ispell
    • 3.2.2 With Emacs and Xemacs
    • 3.2.3 With LyX
    • 3.2.4 With VIM
    • 3.2.5 With Pine
• 4. Customizing Aspell
  • 4.1 Specifying Options
    • 4.1.1 At the Command Line
      • 4.1.1.1 Boolean
      • 4.1.1.2 Value
      • 4.1.1.3 List
    • 4.1.2 Via a Configuration File
      • 4.1.2.1 Boolean
      • 4.1.2.2 Value
      • 4.1.2.3 List
    • 4.1.3 Via an Environmental Variable
  • 4.2 The Options
    • 4.2.1 Dictionary Options
    • 4.2.2 Checker Options
    • 4.2.3 Filter Options
    • 4.2.4 Run-together Word Options
    • 4.2.5 Misc Options
    • 4.2.6 Aspell Utility Options
  • 4.3 Dumping Configuration Values
  • 4.4 Notes on various Options
    • 4.4.1 Notes on Various Filters and Filter Modes
      • 4.4.1.1 None Mode
      • 4.4.1.2 Url Filter/Mode
      • 4.4.1.3 Email Filter/Mode
      • 4.4.1.4 SGML Filter/Mode
      • 4.4.1.5 TEX Filter/Mode
    • 4.4.2 Notes on the Prefix Option
    • 4.4.3 Notes on Typo-Analysis and the Keyboard Definition File
    • 4.4.4 Notes on the Different Suggestion Modes
• 5. Working With Dictionaries
  • 5.1 How Aspell Selects an Appropriate Dictionary
  • 5.2 Listing Available Dictionaries
  • 5.3 Dumping the contents of the word list
  • 5.4 Creating an Individual Word List
    • 5.4.1 Format of the Replacement Word List
  • 5.5 Using Multi Dictionaries
  • 5.6 Dictionary Naming
  • 5.7 AWLI files
• 6. Writing programs to use Aspell
  • 6.1 Through the C API
    • 6.1.1 Usage
    • 6.1.2 API Reference
    • 6.1.3 Examples
    • 6.1.4 Notes About Thread Safety
  • 6.2 Through A Pipe
    • 6.2.1 Format of the Data Stream
  • 6.3 Notes of Storing Replacement Pairs
• 7. Adding Support For Other Languages
  • 7.1 The Language Data File
  • 7.2 Compiling the Word List
  • 7.3 Phonetic Code
    • 7.3.1 Syntax of the transformation array
    • 7.3.2 How do I start finally?
      • 7.3.2.1 Things that come in handy
      • 7.3.2.2 What the phonetic code should do
  • 7.4 Controlling the Behavior of Run-together Words
• 8. How Aspell Works
• A. Changelog
  • Changes from 0.50.2 to 0.50.3 (Nov 23, 2002)
  • Changes from 0.50.1 to 0.50.2 (Sep 28, 2002)
  • Changes from 0.50 to 0.50.1 (Aug 28, 2002)
  • Changes from .33.7.1 to 0.50 (Aug 23, 2002)
  • Changes from .33.7 to .33.7.1 (Aug 20, 2001)
  • Changes from .33.6.3 to .33.7 (Aug 2, 2001)
  • Changes from .33.6.2 to .33.6.3 (June 3, 2001)
  • Changes from .33.6.1 to .33.6.2 (June 3, 2001)
  • Changes from .33.6 to .33.6.1 (May 29, 2001)
  • Changes from .33.5 to .33.6 (May 18, 2001)
  • Changes from .33 to .33.5 (April 5, 2001)
  • Changes from .32.6 to .33 (January 28, 2001)
  • Changes from .32.5 to .32.6 (Nov 8, 2000)
  • Changes from .32.1 to .32.5 (August 18, 2000)
  • Changes from .32 to .32.1 (August 5, 2000)
  • Changes from .31.1 to .32 (July 23, 2000)
  • Changes from .31 to .31.1 (June 18, 2000)
  • Changes from .30.1 to .31 (June 11, 2000)
  • Changes from .30 to .30.1 (April 29, 2000)
  • Changes from .29.1 to .30 (April 2, 2000)
  • Changes from .29 to .29.1 (Feb 18, 2000)
  • Changes from .28.3 to .29 (Feb 6, 2000)
  • Changes from .28.2.1 to .28.3 (Nov 20, 1999)
  • Changes from .28.2 to .28.2.1 (Aug 25, 1999)
  • Changes from .28.1 to .28.2 (Aug 25, 1999)
  • Changes from .28 to .28.1 (July 27, 1999)
  • Changes from .27.2 to .28 (July 25, 1999)
  • Changes from .27.1 to .27.2 (Mar 1, 1999)
  • Changes from .27 to .27.1 (Feb 24, 1999)
  • Changes from .26.2 to .27 (Feb 22, 1999)
  • Changed from .26.1 to .26.2 (Jan 3, 1998)
  • Changed from .26 to .26.1 (Jan 3, 1998)
  • Changed from .25.1 to .26 (Jan 3, 1999)
  • Changes from .25 to .25.1 (Dec 10, 1998)
  • Changes from .24 to .25 (Nov 23, 1998)
  • Changes from .23 to .24 (Nov 8, 1998)
  • Changes from .22.1 to .23 (Oct 31, 1998)
  • Changes from .22 to .22.1 (Oct 27, 1998)
  • Changes from .21 to .22 (Oct 26, 1998)
  • Changes from .20 to .21 (Oct 13, 1998)
  • Changes from .11 to .20 (Oct 10, 1998)
  • Changes from .10 to .11 (Sep 12, 1998)
• B. To Do
  • B.1 Things that need to be done
  • B.2 Good ideas that are worth implementing
  • B.3 Notes and Status of various items
    • B.3.1 General region skipping
    • B.3.2 Word skipping by context
    • B.3.3 Hidden Markov Model
    • B.3.4 Email the Personal Dictionary
    • B.3.5 Words With Spaces in Them
• C. Credits
• D. Glossary and References
• E. Copyright
  • E.1 GNU Free Documentation License
    • Preamble
    • E.1.1 Applicability and Definitions
    • E.1.2 Verbatim Copying
    • E.1.3 Copying in Quantity
    • E.1.4 Modifications
    • E.1.5 Combining Documents
    • E.1.6 Collections of Documents
    • E.1.7 Aggregation With Independent Works
    • E.1.8 Translation
    • E.1.9 Termination
    • E.1.10 Future Revisions of This License
    • ADDENDUM: How to use this License for your documents
  • E.2 GNU Lesser Public License
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