Re: [Aspell-user] Adding hyphenated words to private dictionaries

[Kevin Atkinson]

Lars Aronsson wrote:
> Art Smoot wrote:
> > > No.  The correct thing to do is first check if "co-counsel" is in the
> > > dictionary, than if not check both parts.  Aspell does not support this
> > > behavior yet.
> > I would agree with that assessment, but still the basic question is how do you 
> > get "co-counsel" into the dictionary? 
>
> Today, Aspell first defines which characters can go into the words 
> of a language, and then only these characters can be used in the 
> dictionary.  It ought to be the other way around:  If the 
> dictionary contains "address@hidden" than that should be a valid 
> word, not because it contains valid letters but because it is in 
> the dictionary.  There should be no need for a classification of 
> letters, as this could be derived from the dictionary.  This would 
> not only allow "co-counsel" but also "Absolut Vodka" to be a 
> "word" in the dictionary, even if "Absolut" on its own is not.

Sure its easy to be able to accept words like "address@hidden" and "Absolut 
Vodka" into the dictionary.  But in order to spell check a document with those 
words in it Aspell must some how recognize that "address@hidden" and "Absolut 
Vodka" is one word.  That is not an easy task.  Things can become even more 
complicated when a word is misspelled.  See:
  http://aspell.sourceforge.net/man-html/Words-With-Symbols-in-Them.html
for some of the many complications.