[aspell] Re: Wishlist

[Ulf Vatter]

Kevin Atkinson wrote:
>[...]
> 
>> ** One should be able to define a remark sections (in a tex file,
>> everything behind a `;` should not be checked) and code words ( \center
>> should not be checked).
>
> This sort of region skipping will come soon although I will only be able
> to code one for html as I do not know enough about TeX to create one.
>
Well, especially in this sort of points your program should be very
flexible and configureable! One should be able to define this kind of
stuff very easily, so that ajustment for a new fileformat can be made
very fast. There are hundreds of programs out there which could utilise
aspell, each using it's own format. How about a simple file with several
sections: 
1. Ignore between <list of begin and end symbols>
2. Ignore until EOL < list of symbols>
3. Ignore until EOParagraph <list of symbols>
4. Ignore until EOF <list of symbols>
5. Ignored simple codewords <list of codewords>
6. Ignored enclosing codewords <list of codewords>

Hardcoding for each file format isn't a good idea.

>[...]
>> Even worse: the
>> combining of bell and label ain't belllabel but bellabel, 3 times the
>> same letter is only allowed if the next letter is NOT a vocal. 
> And what is a vocal.
My mistake. I ment 'vowel'.

[...]
> Now I have a for questions for you.
> 
> Is German mostly a phonetic language.? Or is it a lot like English with
> all sort of weird pronunciation rules.  Or more to the point does ispell
> do an adequate job of coming up with suggestions?
English does actually have pronunciation rules??? My teacher always told
me: "Don't even try to find a relationship between spelling and
pronunciation in English. Just hang on in there, you will get used to
it...". To what I have experienced until now, she was right. 
Anyway, yes, in German one pronounces words the way they are spelled.
Each letter has it's own sound (okay, it's not quit that simple, but
comes close). So a word spelled "people" is pronounced [people] and not
[pe:pl]. Double letters and 'h's are used to shorten and lengthen the
pronounciation of a letter, certain combinations of letters have their
own sound (as the English 'th').
I don't really know if ispell did a good job; it never worked for me, as
explained in the last letter.

> 
> Does German have the same vowels that English does (a e i o u and
> sometimes y).  If not what are they?
yup, we do. I guess they are the same in all indo-germanic and roman
languagues (all European languages belong to these language families,
except Hungarian and Finish).

> 
> Thanks for your feedback.  Would it be OK if I forward this to the
> aspell mailing list?
Sure.

> 
> --
> Kevin Atkinson
> address@hidden
> http://metalab.unc.edu/kevina/

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Ulf Vatter *** address@hidden
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