| Developer(s) | GNU Aspell developers |
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| Stable release | 0.60.6 / 2008-04-16 |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Type | Spell checker |
| License | LGPL |
| Website | http://aspell.net/ |
GNU Aspell, usually called just Aspell, is a free software spell checker designed to replace Ispell. It is the standard spell checker for the GNU software system. It also compiles for other Unix-like operating systems and Windows. The main program is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (GNU LGPL), the documentation under GNU Free Documentation License (GNU FDL). Dictionaries for it are available for about 70 languages. The main maintainer is Kevin Atkinson.
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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 more comprehensive. 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
Windows port
The Windows port of GNU Aspell is extremely out of date. According to the developer, he has "no time and very little interest in maintaining a Windows port," and is currently looking for somebody to maintain it.[1] The Lyx project maintains a fork of Aspell for Windows[2]
Integration
Aspell has been integrated in software such as Pidgin, Digsby, AbiWord, LyX, gedit, Notepad++ and previously[3] Opera[4].
See also
Notes and references
- ^ "Need Someone to Maintain Aspell Windows Port". http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/aspell-announce/2008-04/msg00003.html. Retrieved 2008-07-06.
- ^ "Re: aspell 0.60.6 on Windows and using libaspell with SciTE". http://www.mail-archive.com/aspell-devel@gnu.org/msg01151.html. Retrieved 2009-12-01.
- ^ Opera 10 now uses Hunspell: "Opera Desktop Team Blog". http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/2009/04/03/turbo-in-10. Retrieved 2009-04-20.
- ^ "Spell-checking With Opera". http://www.opera.com/support/tutorials/opera/spellcheck/. Retrieved 2006-02-06.
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)
- LyXWinInstaller (includes Aspell for Windows)
- Aspell and UTF-8/Unicode
- GNU Aspell summary page at Savannah
- Mac OS X interface for Aspell
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