My Main Feature Request

[Steve Lamb]

On Sat, Apr 08, 2000 at 09:33:20PM -0500, treasure.mountain wrote:
> Improved Spell Checker.  The Spell Checker needs to recognize hyphens,
> apostrophes, and plurals.  Hyphens and apostrophes really shouldn't be
> a problem--just fix the program so that the elements on either side of
> the hyphen are treated as separate words. For apostrophes, tell the
> program to start a new word every time it encounters a hyphen, then add
> the common contraction elements ('s. 've, 't, etc.) to the dictionary. 
> There should be a way of letting PMMail recognize simple plurals
> without having every one entered in the dictionary, but this would
> involve putting in some common spelling rules--a bit more complicated.

    As I've said all the long, drop the spell checker and use something
external.  PMMail is an email client, not a spell checker.  That is a
completely separate program.  There are two wonderfun /FREE/ spell checkers
under the GPL which blow the water out of pretty much anything available right
now on Windows.  I have outlined a plan which I think they can legally use
them several times.  Both aspell and ispell do exactly what you want.  They
also do it with several languages.

    As for plurals, at least in English, do you know that it isn't that
simple?  Moose, meese, mooses, goose, geese, gooses.  :)

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