Re: [Aspell-user] looking for command line syntax to check correct spelling of word or words

[Patrick Krug]

This would be fine but what I am trying to do is restrict the words that it 
displays to a small number of words.

I have a website that that I have indexed.  I will grab the words that have 
been indexed and use those words to suggest a word similiar to the word that 
they entered.

What I have a problem with is the syntax creating my personal word list and 
then using that list to suggest the correct spelling.

I have the correct syntax to check the spelling against the current 
dictionary but not a list that I want to correct.

Thanks once again.

----Original Message Follows----
From: Keith Christian <address@hidden>
To: Patrick Krug <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: [Aspell-user] looking for command line syntax to check correct 
spelling of word or words
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 10:32:12 -0800 (PST)

Hi Patrick,

I'm using aspell as installed under Cygwin (www.cygwin.com) and it works 
well
for me.  I have a shell script that tests a word or words for spelling under
Aspell and also gets a definition if available from WordNet (also part of my
Cygwin install.)

The easist way I've found is to echo / pipe the word to Aspell.  Here is a
sample command line by Aspell when passed in the incorrectly spelled 
"synoym"
instead of "synonym," the correct spelling:

echo "synoym" | aspell -a

    Mon Feb 07 11:26:54 ~/>spell synoym
    @(#) International Ispell Version 3.1.20 (but really Aspell 0.50.3)
    & synoym 16 0: synonym, synonymy, Sonoma, synod, Symon, Sony, synonyms,
    snowy, snot, syn, Sonya, Sunny, sunny, Storm, snout, storm


Here is a function I used in the BASH shell under Cygwin to send words to 
both
Aspell and WordNet on my local machine:


TIMESTAMP=$(date '+%Y%m%d_%H%M%S')
PROGRAM_NAME=$0
SEPARATOR="--------------------------------------------------------------------------------"
function1() {
        :
        for THEWORD in "$@"
        do
                echo "${TIMESTAMP}-----aspell-----${SEPARATOR}"
                echo "${THEWORD}" | aspell -a
                echo "${TIMESTAMP}-----wordnet-----${SEPARATOR}"
                wn "${THEWORD}" -over
        done
        echo "${TIMESTAMP}-----done-----${SEPARATOR}"
}


====Keith



--- Patrick Krug <address@hidden> wrote:

> I was told that I could use aspell to get a list of words similiar or the
> correct spelling, ie "did you mean?"
>
> I would like to pass in a word or words that a user has entered.  Pass in 
a
> file of words that it should use to find words that are possibly the 
correct
>
> spelling of the word entered.
>
> I would like to output the information to a file or stdout and then parse
> the words.
>
> I was told that the aspell program would do this but I can not find the
> syntax or commands to create a personal word list to limit the words
> returned so that I can display "did you mean?".
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> The current syntax I have tried is as follows:
>
>
> c:>aspell --lang=en_US create personal personal_test <mywordlist
> c:>aspell --lang=en_US --encoding=utf-8  -p=personal_test -a <c:\pepe.txt
>
> (i have tested the second command without personal (-p) and it has worked
> fine.  I can not test with a personal list since I have not been able to
> create it)
>
> I am using version 0.50.3 alpha on windows.
>
> when I try the syntax to create my personal  word list the program exits
> with "abnormal program termination"
>
> I have read various articles about the personal word list and I am not 
sure
> what syntax it should be in.  I have tried just creating it with a header
> and starting the words with '*' and ending the file with # and three 
empty
> lines.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
>
>
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