Geoff Kuenning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Just brainstorming, it probably wouldn't be too hard to write a
> postprocessing script for -a mode that turned the output of ispell -a
> into something suitable for another ispell.
This approach is quite promising, but it doesn't work sufficiently well
for non-English languages. It loses all characters that don't belong
to the alphabet specified in .aff file. For example, it turns the line:
I do not want to acept my bda espaņol
into:
acept bda espa ol
One solution is to add the -w flag to specify additional characters:
ispell -a -w ņ -d american | fixispell-a | ispell -a -d spanish
Perhaps, ispell.el is able to find such a set of additional
characters automatically as a subtraction between two alphabets.
But there is another problem. fixispell-a returns a list of near misses
only for the last language in the pipe. It would be better if it
accumulated a list of near misses from all ispell commands in the pipe.
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
