Re: GtkSpell problems

[René Seindal <rene seindal dk>]

On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 06:44:32PM +0200, Thierry Vignaud wrote:
> 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'll be language dependant.

> 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?).

The decision about what constitutes words are made by pango calls from
the gtkspell C code.  Maybe that is the problem.  If the pango functions
were made to facilitate cursor-moving in text editors, then any block of
alphanumeric characters would be a word, 
 
> i do not know what's the way to go ...

A funny thing is that apparently aspell does accept these words:

$ aspell -a -d en_GB
@(#) International Ispell Version 3.1.20 (but really Aspell 0.50.3)
30s
*

1950s
*

3rd
*

67th
*


Maybe there are differences from the commandline aspell and libaspell?

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René Seindal (rene seindal dk)                  http://sights.seindal.dk/