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New Aspell Snapshot, Release Coming Soon
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Kevin Atkinson |
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New Aspell Snapshot, Release Coming Soon |
Date: |
Tue, 29 Jun 2004 07:12:22 -0400 (EDT) |
A new Aspell snapshot is now available:
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/aspell/aspell-0.60-20040628.tar.gz
Changes from Aspell 0.60-20040608:
* Added "usage" help mode and made normal --help more verbose. This
includes listing all available filters, even if they don't have any
options. Also lists available dicts.
* Reworked config class so that options settings the config files
are handled correctly. This involved a rewrite of have the
config code. Also changed "rem-all-" to "clear-" and added
support for other prefixes.
* Fixed Stack overflow bug in word-list-compress
* Added HTML filter. Uses the same library as SGML filter but has
different defaults. SGML filter now has the empty list as the
default for its two options.
* Changes in filter code:
* Renamed *-filter.opt to *-filter.info
* Filter modules are now named *-filter instead of lib*-filter.
* Renamed "filter-" prefix to "f-".
* Bug fixes.
A 0.60-20040624 snapshot was also released but it was never announced.
Other Major Changes From Aspell 0.50.5:
* Merged in Christoph Hintermüller changes from loadable-branch.
Which, among other things, added support for user defined filter
modes.
* Added support for checking affix flags when creating dictionaries.
Because of this some exiting dictionaries will produce a lot
of warnings about invalid or inapplicable affixes.
* Added "dict-alias" option for creating dictionary alias.
* Changed "jargon" option to "variety" which is now a list so that
multiple varieties can be specified. The "jargon" option is still
supported for backwards compatibility.
* Reworked the suggestion code so that:
* It is now possible to use soundslike lookup with affix compression
by only storing the soundslike of the root word.
* It is significantly faster when dealing with short words.
* Supports n-gram lookup.
* Provides basic support for suggesting misspellings for
compound words.
* Removed support for stripping accents. Because of this
THE ASPELL 0.50 ENGLISH DICTIONARY PACKAGE WILL NO LONGER WORK. YOU
NEED TO DOWNLOAD A NEW ONE FROM
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/aspell/dict/en/
* Rewritten SGML filter thanks to Tom Snyder. It now supports
skipping SGML tags such as "script".
* Unicode Normalization is now supported as described in
http://aspell.net/devel-doc/man/Unicode-Normalization.html
* Language names can now include a '_' so that the country
code may be included when it is appropriate.
* The format and name of the character set data file changed.
The extension changed from .dat to .cset. The format and name
should be stable now.
* I decided to name the next Aspell version 0.60 since almost every
part of Aspell has been refactored or rewritten to some extent.
* Dictionaries and data files are now installed in LIBDIR/aspell-0.60
so that Aspell 0.50 and 0.60 can more peacefully coexist.
* Added support for accepting all input and printing all output in
UTF-8 or some other encoding different from the one Aspell uses.
Aspell can now support any language that no more than 210 distinct
characters, including different capitalizations and accents, _even
if_ there is not an existing 8-bit encoding that supports the
language.
* Support for Affix Compression. Affix compression stores the root
word and then a list of prefixes and suffixes that the word can
take, and thus saves a lot of space. The codebase comes from
MySpell found in OpenOffice. It uses the same affix file
OpenOffice (and Mozilla) use.
* Manual has has been converted to texinfo format thanks to the work
of Chris Martin.
* Reworked the build system so that a single Makefile is used for
most of the code.
* Added support for loadable filters thanks to Christoph Hintermüller
* Added gettext support thanks to Sergey Poznyakoff
I expect to release Aspell 0.60 by the end of July. A prerelease should
be released in one or two weeks.
If you are a translator please work on updating the Aspell translation.
The strings should be stable now.
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