Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Spellchecking DocBook

[Ian Castle <ian dot castle at looksystems dot co dot uk>]

At one time (I've not used ispell for a long time) aspell had the
"mode=sgml" option so that it didn't try to spellcheck inside tags.

ispell may well have this now though, so I don't know, but it didn't
when I started using aspell.

aspell tends to be shipped with most linux distributions nowadays. Red
Hat Linux 6.2 contained ispell... but I think 7.x only has aspell.

In addition aspell is layered on top of pspell, which, I think, is some
kind of API/library for building spelling systems. The Gnome project's
gnome-spell also sits on top of pspell. So I have the same spell
checking engine - with aspell providing a tty interface and gnome-spell
a graphical one. [to go even more off-topic, I'm typing this in
Evolution 1.0.1 - and all my spelling mistakes have squiggly red lines
under them - but they should be the same mistakes that aspell would find
;-)]

On Tue, 2002-01-22 at 19:33, Josef Karthauser wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 06:33:47PM +0000, Dave Pawson wrote:
> > At 18:23 22/01/2002 +0000, Ian Castle wrote:
> > >On UNIX I use aspell which understands SGML/XML tags
> > >
> > >aspell --mode=sgml check file.xml
> > >
> > >You would probably have to find some fancy XML editor on the Windows
> > >platform that would do the job....
> > 
> > recent reading mentioned aspell, some variant of ispell??
> 
> From the FreeBSD port description:
> 
>     Aspell is a spelling checker designed to eventually replace
>     ispell, although it currently lacks many of ispell's basic
>     functions. Aspell's main feature is that it does a much better
>     job of coming up with possible suggestions than ispell. Aspell
>     also includes a powerful C++ library with C and Perl interfaces
>     in the works.
> 
>     WWW: http://aspell.sourceforge.net/
> 
> Joe