Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 22:09:57 -0500 (EST) From: Kevin Atkinson Subject: New Aspell Snapshot: 0.51-20040204 I have just released another pre Aspell 0.51 snapshot, version 0.51-20040204. This snapshot has lots of small changes. Some of the more significant ones: * Added support for storing words with out the jump table information which means that prefixes are no longer expanded when affix compression is used. * Added support for MySpell Replacement Tables for better suggestions when phonet information is not available. * Fixed to compile with Gcc 3.4 * Lots of code cleanups. 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. * Manual has has been converted to texinfo format thanks to the work of Chris Martin. I would really appreciate it if people could test it out and report back any bugs to the appropriate tracker at http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=245 . Due to the changes in the build system I would really appreciate it if package maintains could attempt to package it and report back any problems. Since this is a pre-release version please DO NOT replace Aspell 0.50 with the snapshot as I do not consider it sufficiently stable yet. In particular, the way loadable filters are handles and the dictionary format may change before Aspell 0.51. I have registered the 'Aspell' domain with the Translation Project (http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/translation/HTML/index.html). This means that if you wish to contribute to contribute a translation for Aspell you should go through them. You can find the snapshot at http://aspell.net/devel/aspell-0.51-20040204.tar.gz Future snapshots will be uploaded to http://aspell.net/devel/. It is unlikely that I will announce every snapshot release to aspell-announce. So, if you are interested in following Aspell development I suggest you subscribe to aspell-devel. -- http://kevin.atkinson.dhs.org