Re: [aspell-devel] TeX double quotation marks and Italian language.

[Kevin Atkinson]

On Wed, 21 May 2008, Antonio Ospite wrote:

> Great! This seems to be way simpler than a dictionary solution, and it
> is language independent, too.
>
> Do you think it is worth to translate the whole expression
>  ``some text''
> to
>  "some text"
> in the filter? It looks more robust to me.

Maybe, but more trouble.  Does TeX more or less unconditionally 
converts '' to a double quote?  If so, there is no reason the filter 
shouldn't also.

You can very easily add support for '' to the texinfo filter by adding a 
line to texinfo.conv.

> Does aspell support regular expressions in filters?

No.  A regex filter will be useful but I imagine somewhat complicated to 
write.  If you really want to attempt one see:
  http://aspell.net/0.61/dev-html/Filter-Interface.html
For an overview of how Aspell's filter interface works.   It is best to 
ignore section 11.7 and 11.8 as there are out of date and no longer 
accurate.  Just use one of the other filters as a template.