From kevina@gnu.org Thu Feb 19 06:34:59 2004 Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 06:34:17 -0500 (EST) From: Kevin Atkinson To: aspell-devel@gnu.org Subject: New Aspell Snapshot: 0.51-20040219 I have just released another pre Aspell 0.51 snapshot, version 0.51-20040219. This snapshot has lots of small changes. Some of the more significant ones: * Speed ups to suggestion code when affix compression is used. * Added support for accepting all input and printing all output in UTF-8 or some other encoding different from the one Aspell uses. Aspell can now support any language that no more than 220 distinct characters, including different capitalizations and accents, _even if_ there is not an existing 8-bit encoding that supports the language. Other changes from Aspell 0.50: * Added support for loadable filters thanks to Christoph Hintermüller * Enhanced TEX filter to support recognizing accent commands, such as the German umlaute, and to treat words with hyphenation characters in them as one word, also thanks to Christoph Hintermüller * Added gettext support thanks to Sergey Poznyakoff * Reworked how the dictionary is stored to take up less space (around 80% for the English language) and be faster in some cases. * Reworked the build system so that a single Makefile is used for most of the code. * Support for Affix Compression. Affix compression stores the root word and then a list of prefixes and suffixes that the word can take, and thus saves a lot of space. The codebase comes from MySpell found in OpenOffice. It uses the same affix file OpenOffice (and Mozilla) use. However, affix compression is currently incompatible with sounds like look up which means that the suggestion quality will suffer. * Added support for MySpell Replacement Tables for better suggestions when phonet information is not available. * Manual has has been converted to texinfo format thanks to the work of Chris Martin. -- http://kevin.atkinson.dhs.org