Re: [aspell-devel] support for compound words and word skipping by context

[Kevin Atkinson]

On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Chris Hornbaker wrote:

>  I just saw the entry for support for compound words under Important Items in 
> the To Do section of the pre-release manual docs. The language I'd like to 
> add support for has the potential to have millions of compound words. It has 
> some simple rules for combining them (like, no consonant pairs). If I can be 
> of some help, then please let me know.

I need details.  I am especially interested in cases where concatenating two 
words together is not sufficient.

> Also, word skipping by context interests me. In this language, to use words 
> from another language, you must essentially "escape" to it (like \n). Here we 
> use with, for example, names from the English language, la'i gy. 
> <english-name> gy. So you'd have something like: la'o gy. White House gy.
> There is, also, a way to include whole or parts of sentences from another 
> language. Again, if I can be of some help, then please let me know.

Multi language checking is not something Aspell supports directly yet.  if 
you are willing to contribute code, than perhaps you could be of some 
help.

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