Re: [Aspell-user] Using .cwl files

[Agustin Martin]

On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 06:33:50AM -0800, John Cage wrote:
> Incidentally Agustim, according to the 'readme' in current version
> I'm using, it is Aspell 0.50.3

Then is (very) old version, with no affix compression. I do not remember if
prezip/preunzip were available for it, or only the old word-list-compress
command,

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$ word-list-compress --help
Compresses or uncompresses sorted word lists.  Version 0.2.1
For best result the locale should be set to C before sorting by
  setting the environmental variable LANG to "C" before sorting.
Copyright 2000-2004 by Kevin Atkinson.
Usage: word-list-compress c[ompress]|d[ecompress]
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So if you want to start from the official dict you need the old english
dict file

ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/aspell/dict/en/aspell5-en-6.0-0.tar.bz2

Note that is packaged with tar and compressed with bzip. and that it
contains several .cwl files for different purposes, either standalone or
combined.

Another possibility that may be simpler for you is to start with a fresh
plain english wordlist, such as one of the wordlists generated from SCOWL

http://wordlist.sourceforge.net/

(depending on the variant and the size you want), edit it to your
convenience and make a hash file,

aspell create master --local-data-dir=. --lang=en ./en-stripped.rws < 
en-stripped.wl

with the relevant en.dat and phonet file in your dir, and install it along
with the normal aspell dict.

-- 
Agustin