Date: 10 Jan 1998 20:17:35 -0000 From: alchemy@inconnect.com To: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: International ispell Message-ID: <19980110201735.6299.qmail@shell.inconnect.com>
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On Fri Jan 9, 1998 at 22:10:17 -0800, Satoshi Asami wrote: > * What would it take to get someone to port ispell with support for more > * languages (besides French)? Specifically, I would like to see Spanish > * and British and "American" support working together in my ispell. > * Ideally, a menu (similar to Ghostscript's printer driver selection > * menu) listing all available languages would be excellent. > * > * I tried to hack the ispell tarball and the port myself, but I couldn't > * get it to work. > > Are you sure you can get them work "together"? Say, I wrote chambre, > is my French/English ispell going to correct me? Yes, I've done it before. However, you do have to supply a command switch to specify a language. I.e.: ispell -d deutsch filename. Ispell will only work with one language at a time, but it's still nice to have multiple language support. :-) > I think the better thing to do is to have ispell install different > binaries that use different names. (Or install one binary with > symlinks for different names, and have it check argv[0] to pick the > appropriate dictionary.) That's a good idea, but it renders it incompatible with programs like XEmacs, which only know how to run the "ispell" bin. Your second suggestion might work, though. -- Anthony C. Chavez <alchemy@inconnect.com>
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