GNU Aspell
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| GNU Aspell | |
| Developer: | GNU Aspell developers |
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| Latest release: | 0.60.5 / December 19, 2006 |
| OS: | Cross-platform |
| Use: | Spell checker |
| License: | LGPL |
| Website: | aspell.net |
GNU Aspell, usually called just Aspell, is a free software spell checker designed to replace Ispell. It is the standard spelling checker software for the GNU software system. It also compiles for other Unix-like operating systems and Microsoft Windows. The main program is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (GNU LGPL), the documentation under GNU Free Documentation Licence (GNU FDL). Dictionaries for it are available for about 70 languages. The main maintainer is Kevin Atkinson.
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[edit] Comparison to Ispell
In comparison to Ispell, Aspell can also easily check documents in UTF-8 without having to use a special dictionary. Aspell will also do its best to respect the current locale setting. Other advantages over Ispell include support for using multiple dictionaries at once and intelligently handling personal dictionaries when more than one Aspell process is open at once. However, Ispell follows the Unix convention of being a command applied to a file (eg ispell text-file-with-spelling-errors), Aspell requires other command line options and the '--help' option is written by an expert rather than someone who wants to use it. Here are two uses:
- Interactively runs through the text_file checking the spelling:
aspell check text_file
- Allows you to type in a word (followed by newline and Ctrl-d) to find words that sound the same
aspell soundslike
[edit] Integration in other applications
Among others, Opera[1], AbiWord, LyX, and gedit use Aspell as spellchecking facility.
[edit] See also
[edit] Notes and references
- ^ Spell-checking With Opera. Retrieved on February 6, 2006.
[edit] External links
- Aspell Homepage
- Aspell Spell Helper
- Test Results of Aspell Compared to Other Spell Checkers
- The GNU Aspell documentation under the GNU Free Documentation Licence
- GNU Aspell download page (FTP link)
- Aspell and UTF-8/Unicode
- GNU Aspell summary page at Savannah
- Mac OS X interface for Aspell
History: GNU Manifesto • GNU Project • Free Software Foundation (FSF)
GNU licenses: GNU General Public License (GPL) • GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) • GNU Free Documentation License (FDL)
Software: GNU operating system • bash • GNU Compiler Collection • Emacs • GNU C Library • Coreutils • GNU build system • other GNU packages and programs
Speakers: Robert J. Chassell • Loïc Dachary • Ricardo Galli • Georg C. F. Greve • Federico Heinz • Bradley M. Kuhn • Eben Moglen • Richard Stallman • Len Tower
