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- **** nextispell *******
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-
- Release 0.5, 3rd of January 1995
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- This is a new improved release of the former internationalspell, a
- spell service for the NeXT spell panel (like the one in Edit).
-
- The new release is quicker and more reliable.
-
- by Moritz Willers (willers@butp.unibe.ch (NeXTMail))
- University of Berne
- Institute for Theoretical Physics
- Switzerland
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-
-
- To install just type: configure. To make TeX-style parsing be the
- default, use "configure -t". (You will have to make two configure
- runs to get both TeX-style and nroff-style parsing.) To install in
- the system-wide /LocalLibrary rather than in your personal ~/Library,
- you must be root, and use "configure -r" or "configure -r -t".
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-
- You need to have ispell installed with the corresponding hash files to
- make use of this spell server (The spell server invokes ispell and
- communicates with it via a pipe).
-
- Major advantage:
- based on ispell
- -> you can spellcheck any language!!
- Major disadvantage:
- I can't think of any (no more)
- except that it still isn't as fast as I would like it to be
-
- to be more specific:
- - you can spellcheck in TeX mode
- - you can spell any language you've got or produced a wordlist and a
- *.aff file for
- - ispell can be a bit of a pain to install
-
- to be found at cs.orst.edu in /pub/next/binaries/util/nextispell.tar.gz
-
- Thanks to Detlev Droege and Geoff Kuenning for new ideas and thanks to
- Christoph Hauert for his ever patient help.
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- ****************
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- Internal:
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- The spellserver gives ispell the text to correct bout 80 characters at
- a time now, this makes it faster now. However with a huge hash file,
- like the german one, ispell is still rather slow. From time to time
- the program still hangs because the reading on a pipe would block. You
- will find this error in the Console.
-
- Modify the code as you like and if you come up with anything better
- let me know it.
-
- The configuration scripts haven't been improved yet.
-
-
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- *** Some words about ispell: ***
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- You can get ispell from (thanks to Geoff Kuenning)
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- ftp.cs.ucla.edu
- /pub/ispell
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- Current version:
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- International Ispell Version 3.1.00, 12/21/93
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- Be sure to get ispell 3.1 and not 4.0 which is something completely
- different and doesn't work with my program.
-