Re: [Aspell-user] Adding hyphenated words to private dictionaries

[Kevin Atkinson]

> > Doing that will cause Aspell to treat EVERY word with a "-" as a single 
> > word.  Thus every hyphenated word will be flagged as a misspelling. 
> > Even if the individual parts are in the dictionary.

> His is an interesting case. Co-counsel is a legitimate word, but Co is 
> not. As I said, google indicates that co-counsel is preferred to 
> cocounsel. The same with the other words he is adding.
>
> What do you say? Should Aspell treat the hyphen more like an
> ordinary letter?

No.  The correct thing to do is first check if "co-counsel" is in the 
dictionary, than if not check both parts.  Aspell does not support this 
behavior yet.