Re: Converting ispell aff format to myspell
Hi,
Upstream has also some converters:
http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/lingucomponent/dictionary.html
(in the zip hidden in the link "standalone copy of myspell")
Yes and none of them are perfect. Many leave embedded tabs in places
that freak out myspell.
The first step in doing any conversion is to do the equivalent of an
emacs untabify on the file and then audit the entries to make sure the
correct counts are given throughout.
There is now also preliminary support for compound words and simple
replacement tables (to allow for phonetic corrections and things like
that) which are documented only in the source and some readmes in the
standalone version of myspell.
I thought about packaging the libmyspell and the utilities but the
license situation is unclear. Maybe I'll mail Kevin in the next days
to resolve that.
My how time flies! .... I tried to make this whole thing as "free" as
possible (both in beer and speech).
MySpell is convered under a normal BSD license with absolutely no
advertising clause. It is covered under your choice of LGPL or SiSSL
if you so choose and via a submission to Kevin Atkinson's aspell, Mr.
Stallman himself granted it GPL status after asking me a bunch of
questions about how I wrote it.
Also, it was used as the basis for Mozilla in a completely rewritten
variant (with lots of Mozilla string classes flying around and io!) and
that version is available under the Mozilla tri-license.
I just don't know how to make it any "free-er" than that.
My whole purpose in writing it to begin with was to better understand
affix compression (a learning exercise for me).
So please do whatever you want with it. You will get no grief from me.
No matter how it evolves, all I would like is to be mentioned in the
credits as its original author (a request not a requirement) and that
the original ispell authors be granted their dues as well.
Hope this makes things a bit clearer.
BTW, MySpell is statically linked with OOo and has no other interface
for parsing other forms of text and so is NO replacement for aspell in
any way. Its sole purpose was to fill a gap in the needs of OOo (and as
it turns out mozilla in a highly modified form) and anyone else who
needs or wants it. So I am not sure there is any demand for a library
version (you would be better off using Aspell for that).
Have fun!
Kevin
Regards,
Rene
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Richard Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario
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