[aspell-devel] New Aspell Snapshot: 0.51-20040212

[Kevin Atkinson]

I have just released another pre Aspell 0.51 snapshot, version 
0.51-20040212.  This snapshot has lots of small changes.  Some of the more 
significant ones:

   * More speed ups to suggestion code.  Suggestion time is now up to 
     10x faster for the English dictionary (Try "helllo")
   * Lots of bug fixes

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.

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-0.51-20040212.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.

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