Re: GtkSpell problems

[Thierry Vignaud <tvignaud mandrakesoft com>]

René Seindal <rene seindal dk> writes:

> > > 1) Don't check words starting with digits.  Pango might think
> > > they are words, but I know they aren't :-)
> >
> > what about mispelled words that begin with digits ?
> >
> > eg 1etter for letter, ...
>
> I hadn't thought about that.  I think it is very unlikely, though.

it often happens when you use ocr for example ... :-(

> I guess the real problem is in the back-end (aspell in my case)
> which apparently marks text like 3rd, 1970s as misspelled.  If you
> have a lot of that in a text you have red lines all over.

humm. the ideal fix would be to allow \d+(rd|s|...)$ in aspell but
that may not be so easy (when you consider the lack of ispell addon
for building word list from automatic rules, affix, suffixes and
roots)

maybe adding a configuration value for this somewhere (gtkspell? perl
binding?).

i do not know what's the way to go ...