Re: [aspell-devel] option to add extra ignore characters

[Kevin Atkinson]

This question really belongs to address@hidden

On Mon, 8 Oct 2007, Stefan Kost wrote:

> hi,
>
> I took another attempt at spell checking sources using
> @(#) International Ispell Version 3.1.20 (but really Aspell 0.60.4)
>
> I run
> aspell -c --mode=ccpp -p ./.aspell_dict.pws xxx.c
>
> and I create the personal dictionary from the tags file and file-name 
> basenames. This is to automatically have a sensible wordlist. When trying to 
> use the list I get error like this:
>
> Error: ./.aspell_dict.pws: The word "adapter_test" is invalid. The character 
> '_' (U+5F) may not appear in the middle of a word.
> Error: ./.aspell_dict.pws: The word "appendix-win32" is invalid. The 
> character '3' (U+33) may not appear in the middle of a word.
> Error: ./.aspell_dict.pws: The word "appendix-win32" is invalid. The 
> character '3' (U+33) must be followed by an alphabetic character.
>
> I already started to muck with my /usr/lib/aspell/en.dat and adding
> special ' -*- _ **- - -*- 1 -** 2 -** 3 -**
> and so on. This helps with allowing to get rid of the *in the middle' 
> warnings but not of the latter (must be followed by an alphabetic character).

With Aspell You can only have one "special" character in a row.  Known 
Limitation.  I'm sure I have written about it before.

> The personal dictionary starts with:
> personal_ws-1.1 en 701
>
> What about having some 'dummy' language for this purpose? I mean, when using 
> generated wordlists, I don't want any affix handling and the like. Just 
> adding these workds as valid words.

That could work.  But if you start making numbers letters than every 
number will be marked as a misspelling is that really what you want?

> While speaking of personal dictionaries, could aspell please save those 
> sorted? If keeping them in the source repository it would be handy to have 
> minimal diff.

There is a patch to this effect:
  
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1333573&group_id=245&atid=300245