Re: [pspell-user] aspell vs. ispell

[Kevin Atkinson]

On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, Jeff Mace wrote:

> I found the problem with it saying everything is misspelled.  It was
> something I was doing.  Funny how "\nthe" doesn't equal "the" ;-).
>
> I have tried to set config to use ispell.  After the call the error number
> is 0 so that tells me that it didn't have a problem with what I want.
> Here is a bit of the code I am using.
>
>       fprintf(stderr, "start config\n");
>       config = new_pspell_config();
> fprintf(stderr, "made config\n");
>       pspell_config_replace(config, "language-tag", "en");
>         pspell_config_replace(config, "add-word-list-path",
> "/usr/local2/share/pspell/");
>        pspell_config_replace(config, "module", "ispell");

Unfortunately Pspell does not look at the module setting when choosing a
appropriate dictionary to use.  You want to do something like:
  pspell_config_replace(config, "rem-all-module-search-order", "");
  pspell_config_replace(config, "add-module-search-order", "ispell");

But now that you bring it up I will consider having Pspell use the
"module" setting.

>        pspell_config_replace(config, "spelling", "english");

You misunderstand how to spelling setting is used.  From the manual: the
requested spelling for languages with more than one spelling such as
English. Known values are ``american'', ``british'', and ``canadian''.
This information is normally inferred from the language-tag option. For
example the language tag ``en_GB'' will set spelling to ``british''.

Although this is not a problem it will just be ignored.

>
>       ret = new_pspell_manager(config);
>        checker = 0;
>        if (pspell_error_number(ret) != 0) {
>                       fprintf(stderr, "%s\n",
> pspell_error_message(ret));
>                       fprintf(stderr, "error message area\n");
>        } else {
>                       checker = to_pspell_manager(ret);
>         }
>
> That is pretty much straight out of the manual.  Do you see anything wrong
> there?  Thanks for your help.

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