[aspell] ANNOUNCE: Aspell .29 and Gaspell .29

[Kevin Atkinson]

A new version of Aspell and Gaspell is out.

This version of Aspell has many new features the most noticeable of them
are.

1) Rudimentary filter support.  Aspell now has filters for html, tex, and
email as well as a filter for skipping over URL, email addresses, and host
names.

2) Total rework of the suggestion code for far better results.  Here is a
comparison of aspell with previous versions and other spell checkers.

               Score Total Not  Total    First on      Found but   
                     Found      Found    Suggestion    Not First   
                                         List                      
Aspell .20     0.835         82      414           291         123
Aspell .21     0.817         91      405           291         114
Aspell .22-.24 0.867         66      430           276         154
Aspell .25-.28 0.839         80      416           280         136
Aspell .29 /   0.942         29      467           295         172
Normal                                                            
Aspell .29 /   0.881         59      437           296         141
Fast                                                              
Aspell .29 /   0.982          9      487           297         190
Bad Spellers                                                      
Ispell 3.1.20  0.546        225      271           193          78
w/ -S option                                                      
Word 97        0.706        146      350           281          69

3) New table driven phonetic code thanks to the contribution of Bj?rn
Jacke.

This version now uses namespaces which means egcs 1.0 and gcc 2.8 will no
longer cut it. If this becomes a serious problem let me know as it
should not be to difficult to get it working again with egcs 1.0 and
gcc 2.8.

The Gaspell utility has been updated to work with the new version of
Aspell.

As always you can find it off of the aspell homepage at its new location
at http://aspell.sourceforge.net/

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