Re: [Aspell-user] Help adding word to dictionary?

[Kevin Atkinson]

On Tue, 20 Dec 2016, Ciarán Ó Duibhín wrote:

> True at present, unfortunately.  But in principle, an option could be 
> programmed, to make aspell accept "drop-down" when the dictionary contains 
> "drop" and "down".  The only manual additions to the dictionary would then be 
> words like "hotch-potch", because "hotch" and "potch" are not in the 
> dictionary.
>
> I think such an option would be generally useful, at least for English, and 
> incidentally would make aspell behave more like the MS-Word spell-checker.
>
> I made such a modification a few years ago, and it worked to my own 
> satisfaction, but the code changes would require to be examined by someone 
> fully conversant with the workings of aspell before it could be considered 
> safe.

Hi,

Aspell is now on GitHub if you care to submit a pull request. 
https://github.com/gnuaspell/aspell.

The other problem is the current dictionary does not have support for 
hyphenated words.  The words are in the source lists, but they get filtered.

Kevin