Contents

• 1. Introduction
  • 1.1 Comparison to other spell checker engines
  
  
• 2. Getting Started
  • 2.1 Requirements
  • 2.2 Obtaining
  • 2.3 Support
  • 2.4 Helping Out
  • 2.5 Compiling & Installing
  • 2.6 Using aspell-import
  
  
• 3. Basic Usage
  • 3.1 Spellchecking Individual Files
  • 3.2 Using Aspell with other Applications
  
  
• 4. Customizing Aspell
  • 4.1 Specifying Options
  • 4.2 The Options
  • 4.3 Dumping Configuration Values
  • 4.4 Notes on various Options
  
  
• 5. Working With Dictionaries
  • 5.1 How Aspell Selects an Appropriate Dictionary
  • 5.2 Listing Available Dictionaries
  • 5.3 Dumping the contents of the word list
  • 5.4 Creating an Individual Word List
  • 5.5 Using Multi Dictionaries
  • 5.6 Dictionary Naming
  • 5.7 AWLI files
  
  
• 6. Writing programs to use Aspell
  • 6.1 Through the C API
  • 6.2 Through A Pipe
  • 6.3 Notes of Storing Replacement Pairs
  
  
• 7. Adding Support For Other Languages
  • 7.1 The Language Data File
  • 7.2 Compiling the Word List
  • 7.3 Phonetic Code
  • 7.4 Controlling the Behavior of Run-together Words
  
  
• 8. How Aspell Works
• A. Changelog
  • Changes from 0.50.4.1 to 0.50.5 (February 10, 2003)
  • Changes from 0.50.4 to 0.50.4.1 (Oct 11, 2003)
  • Changes from 0.50.3 to 0.50.4 (Sep 26, 2003)
  • Changes from 0.50.2 to 0.50.3 (Nov 23, 2002)
  • Changes from 0.50.1 to 0.50.2 (Sep 28, 2002)
  • Changes from 0.50 to 0.50.1 (Aug 28, 2002)
  • Changes from .33.7.1 to 0.50 (Aug 23, 2002)
  • Changes from .33.7 to .33.7.1 (Aug 20, 2001)
  • Changes from .33.6.3 to .33.7 (Aug 2, 2001)
  • Changes from .33.6.2 to .33.6.3 (June 3, 2001)
  • Changes from .33.6.1 to .33.6.2 (June 3, 2001)
  • Changes from .33.6 to .33.6.1 (May 29, 2001)
  • Changes from .33.5 to .33.6 (May 18, 2001)
  • Changes from .33 to .33.5 (April 5, 2001)
  • Changes from .32.6 to .33 (January 28, 2001)
  • Changes from .32.5 to .32.6 (Nov 8, 2000)
  • Changes from .32.1 to .32.5 (August 18, 2000)
  • Changes from .32 to .32.1 (August 5, 2000)
  • Changes from .31.1 to .32 (July 23, 2000)
  • Changes from .31 to .31.1 (June 18, 2000)
  • Changes from .30.1 to .31 (June 11, 2000)
  • Changes from .30 to .30.1 (April 29, 2000)
  • Changes from .29.1 to .30 (April 2, 2000)
  • Changes from .29 to .29.1 (Feb 18, 2000)
  • Changes from .28.3 to .29 (Feb 6, 2000)
  • Changes from .28.2.1 to .28.3 (Nov 20, 1999)
  • Changes from .28.2 to .28.2.1 (Aug 25, 1999)
  • Changes from .28.1 to .28.2 (Aug 25, 1999)
  • Changes from .28 to .28.1 (July 27, 1999)
  • Changes from .27.2 to .28 (July 25, 1999)
  • Changes from .27.1 to .27.2 (Mar 1, 1999)
  • Changes from .27 to .27.1 (Feb 24, 1999)
  • Changes from .26.2 to .27 (Feb 22, 1999)
  • Changed from .26.1 to .26.2 (Jan 3, 1998)
  • Changed from .26 to .26.1 (Jan 3, 1998)
  • Changed from .25.1 to .26 (Jan 3, 1999)
  • Changes from .25 to .25.1 (Dec 10, 1998)
  • Changes from .24 to .25 (Nov 23, 1998)
  • Changes from .23 to .24 (Nov 8, 1998)
  • Changes from .22.1 to .23 (Oct 31, 1998)
  • Changes from .22 to .22.1 (Oct 27, 1998)
  • Changes from .21 to .22 (Oct 26, 1998)
  • Changes from .20 to .21 (Oct 13, 1998)
  • Changes from .11 to .20 (Oct 10, 1998)
  • Changes from .10 to .11 (Sep 12, 1998)
  
  
• B. To Do
  • B.1 Things that will be done by Aspell 0.51
  • B.2 Things that need to be done
  • B.3 Things I would like to get done
  • B.4 Good ideas that are worth implementing
  • B.5 Notes and Status of various items
  
  
• C. Credits
• D. Glossary and References
• E. Copyright
  • E.1 GNU Free Documentation License
  • E.2 GNU Lesser Public License
  
  
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