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

[Kevin Atkinson]

> > Something that correctly implements the idea I described a few
> emails ago,
> > this involve at least:
> >    1) Adding a new character class for hyphens
> >    2) Reworking the code that checks a document
> >    3) Intelligently handling the situation when an hyphened
> word is misspelled
> >
> Just for conversation,
> The LangImpl class has an enum, like this:
>    enum CharType {Unknown, WhiteSpace, Hyphen, Digit,
>                   NonLetter, Modifier, Letter};

I forgot about that.

> Take a look at the LangImpl::setup(...) function. It reads the
> .cset file and stores the character type in member data
> LangImpl::char_type_. So we know which character is a hyphen. We
> also have an existing data member for specifying how a character
> can be used, LangImpl::special_. All we need to do is set
> special_ for the hyphen character to be valid in the middle of a
> word, but not the beginning or end.

There is more too it too that.  I repeat from an earlier email:

  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.

If it was a simple as making it a normal "middle" character I would have 
done so already.