nl-aspell
This package provides a dutch dictionary and a language file for use
with the aspell
spelling checker.
The word list has been compiled from a number of sources:
- The list used in the aspell-nl-0.1.rpm package. The main reason I decided
to build the present package is that I could not find a tarball distribution
of this rpm and that some ``exceptions'' from the official
lists
seemed to be missing.
- The lists in the official announcement
(1996) about spelling changes.
- The list by Piet Tutelaers available on
http://www.ntg.nl/spell-nl-v5b/.
The full word list (approx. 222K words) is available as a
text file dutch.words
in the distribution. The language definition is in the file
dutch.dat
.
prerequisites
The availability of these packages is verified during the installation.
download
The latest version (I don't expect there will be many) is available
here.
installation
Standard (unpack; configure; make install). See the INSTALL file in the
distribution. The installation will compile the word list into
a master dictionary.
manual
Two trivial scripts, called nlspell,
and nllspell are installed in bindir
(typically /usr/local/bin
).
They are replicated below.
- nlspell
#!/bin/sh
aspell --conf=/usr/local/share/aspell/nlspell.config $*
E.g. for interactive use, one would type
nlspell -c filename
- nllspell uses a ``per-directory'' dictionary ``nlspell.dict''
in the current directory.
#!/bin/sh
aspell --conf=/usr/local/share/aspell/nlspell.config \
--add-extra-dicts=$HOME/.aspell.dutch.pws \
--personal=./nlspell.dict $*
See the aspell manual
for more information.
Dirk Vermeir
(dvermeir@vub.ac.be)
[Last modified:
Sat May 19 11:22:00 CEST 2001
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