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Re: [Aspell-user] numbers
From: |
Kevin Atkinson |
Subject: |
Re: [Aspell-user] numbers |
Date: |
Thu, 23 Sep 2004 07:22:17 -0600 (MDT) |
On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Scott Justus wrote:
> Has the spelling been upgraded to include numbers?....it keeps spell
> checking numbers
Do you mean it is marking every number as a misspelling such as "101"? If
so than something is wrong. If you mean things like "4th" than no Aspell
can not treat "4th" as one word. Instead it ignores the number part and
tries to spell check "th".
From: http://aspell.net/man-html/Words-With-Symbols-in-Them.html
Numbers in words present a different challenge to Aspell. If Aspell
treats numbers as letters than every possible number a user might write
in a document must be specified in the dictionary. This could be easily
be solved by having special code to assume all numbers are correctly
spelled. But what about something like "4th". Since the "th" suffix can
appear after any number we are left with the same problem. The solution
would be to have a special symbol for "any number".
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