From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to call spell checker from emacs? Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 10:23:55 -0600 Message-ID: References: <871x9mydxf.fsf@robotron.ath.cx> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1112891771 27520 80.91.229.2 (7 Apr 2005 16:36:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 16:36:11 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 07 18:36:09 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DJZyS-0001hu-BU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Apr 2005 18:35:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DJZXn-00015u-0a for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Apr 2005 12:07:47 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DJZXR-00013M-Kx for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Apr 2005 12:07:26 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DJZVp-00008a-2Z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Apr 2005 12:05:45 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA:16) (Exim 4.34) id 1DJZqR-0002wN-HP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Apr 2005 12:27:03 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1DJZmA-0007y3-5w for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Apr 2005 18:22:38 +0200 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.60 ([207.167.42.60]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 07 Apr 2005 18:22:38 +0200 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.60 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 07 Apr 2005 18:22:38 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.60 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041105) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:25468 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:25468 H. Väisänen wrote: > David Hansen writes: >>Probably it's easier to convert your Finish dictionary to [i|a]spell. > > No. Dictionary-based spell checking does not work for Finnish because > Finnish is inflected language. When English nouns have at most 4 forms > (boy, boys, boy's, boys's), Finnish nouns have about different 15000 > forms and Finnish verbs have about 30000 different forms. OK, you can > put all the forms into a dictionary, but that dictionary will be huge. How is Finnish different from other languages with declined nouns and conjugated verbs? Have you tried Aspell with its Finnish dictionary (only 1.4 MB, uncompressed)? http://aspell.sourceforge.net/ ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/aspell/dict/fi/ If you can suggest improvements, I'm sure the Aspell maintainers and users would appreciate hearing them. -- Kevin Rodgers