Warty spell checking
Matthias Klose
m at klose.in-berlin.de
Sat Sep 25 14:39:04 CDT 2004
Wondered why spell checking was said to be not working warty, took me a
while finding out that it works for German and French, but not
English ...
Spell checking support is provided by
- ispell - the "old" package
- aspell - ispell successor, with 0.51 it is said to be
a replacement for ispell (warty at 0.50).
- myspell - better cross platform (Win/Mac) support,
said to be faster.
Every spell checker needs a language specific dictionary, which are
available in separate packages, sometimes the same source package
provides language dictionaries for all spell checkers, they are not
packaged in a uniform way.
On the desktop warty currently has the following applications using
spell checking features:
- OpenOffice (myspell)
- Evolution (gnome-spell -> aspell)
- Mozilla (myspell)
- Abiword (gnome-spell -> aspell)
Spell checking support is crude ...
- Abiword seems to have the best support, beeing able to use
and spell check multiple languages in the same document.
- OpenOffice and Mozilla are limited to one language per
mail/document.
- Evolution allows me to spellcheck with more than one language
in the same document for the same word. I couldn't find out
what this is it good for ...
To add english spell checking support for warty
- add from unstable (not yet in warty/universe):
- aspell-en
- openoffice.org-dictionaries
- add to the desktop:
- aspell-en
- myspell-en-gb
- myspell-en-us
- openoffice.org-hyphenation-en-gb
- openoffice.org-hyphenation-en-us
- ibritish
- iamerican
To add German spell checking support:
- add to the desktop:
- aspell-de
- myspell-de-de
- openoffice.org-hyphenation-de
- ingerman
To be continued for other languages ...
Spellchecking support for more than one language makes
sense even without having the language support for this
language, so maybe spellcheck support for the big languages
in woody could be added.
Matthias
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