Re: [Aspell-user] Aspell question?

[William H. Magill]

On Dec 30, 2012, at 10:59 PM, Kevin Atkinson <address@hidden> wrote:

> 
> First off sorry about the other email, the mailing list software removed the 
> attachments and converted your message to plain text.  I got the attachments 
> in the copy you sent direct to me.  Notes below.
> 
> On Sun, 30 Dec 2012, William H. Magill wrote:
> 
>> On Dec 30, 2012, at 11:41 AM, Kevin Atkinson <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I'm not sure what the problem is. If you could attach the .aspell.en.pws I 
>> might have a better idea.
>>  
>> I've done a bit more "research" and have noted the following:
>> 
>> 1- if I delete .aspell.en.pws and re-run aspell-import
>> the error message does not appear. 
>> Then running "ispell" on the emacs buffer, it appears to work with no issues.
>> The file in question which I am editing is an html file.
>> 
>> 2- 
>> A) If I then (using emacs) delete the first line and save the file as s.1
>> B) then sort s.1>s.2
>> C) read s.2 and tack on the original first line from the original file and 
>> save it again as .aspell.en.pws
>> D) the error occurs:
>> Error: /Users/magill/.aspell.en.pws: The word "personal_ws-1.1 en 635 " is 
>> invalid. The character '\
>> _' (U+5F) may not appear in the middle of a word.
>> E) the file size is the same in either situation.
> 
> Have another look of the file, the line "personal_ws-1.1 en 635 " is also in 
> the middle of the file.

Duh ... what I get for using search instead of grep :)

>> 3- During a run of aspell-import, I get a number of errors about /M and 
>> similar ispell suffixes.
> 
> There are affix flags that the personal dictionary can't handle.  Something 
> like this should fix it by expanding the affixes; for example "Absalom/M" 
> will become "Absalom" and "Absalom's":
> 
>  cat ~/A-ispell_english | aspell --lang=en expand | tr ' ' '\n' \
>    > A-ispell_english.fixed
> 
> The key part is "aspell expand".  The "tr" command is used to convert spaces 
> to newlines.

Worked like a charm.
Thanks.


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William H. Magill
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