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- Changes from .29 to .29.1 (Feb 18, 2000)
- Changes from .28.3 to .29 (Feb 6, 2000)
- Changes from .28.2.1 to .28.3 (Nov 20, 1999)
- Changes from .28.2 to .28.2.1 (Aug 25, 1999)
- Changes from .28.1 to .28.2 (Aug 25, 1999)
- Changes from .28 to .28.1 (July 27, 1999)
- Changes from .27.2 to .28 (July 25, 1999)
- Changes from .27.1 to .27.2 (Mar 1, 1999)
- Changes from .27 to .27.1 (Feb 24, 1999)
- Changes from .26.2 to .27 (Feb 22, 1999)
- Changed from .26.1 to .26.2 (Jan 3, 1998)
- Changed from .26 to .26.1 (Jan 3, 1998)
- Changed from .25.1 to .26 (Jan 3, 1999)
- Changes from .25 to .25.1 (Dec 10, 1998)
- Changes from .24 to .25 (Nov 23, 1998)
- Changes from .23 to .24 (Nov 8, 1998)
- Changes from .22.1 to .23 (Oct 31, 1998)
- Changes from .22 to .22.1 (Oct 27, 1998)
- Changes from .21 to .22 (Oct 26, 1998)
- Changes from .20 to .21 (Oct 13, 1998)
- Changes from .11 to .20 (Oct 10, 1998)
- Changes from .10 to .11 (Sep 12, 1998)
- Improved the TEX filter so that it will accept '@' at the begging of a command
name and ignore trailing '*'s. It also now has better defaults for which parameters
to skip.
- Reworked the main dictionary so that it can be memory mapped in. This decreases
startup time and allows multiple aspell processes to use the same memory for
the main word list. This also also made Aspell 64 bit clean so that it should
work on an alpha now.
- Fix so that aspell can compile on platforms that gnu as is not available for.
- Fixed issue with flock so it would compile on FreeBSD.
- Minor changes in the code to make it more C++ compliant although I am sure there
will still be problems when using some other compiler other than gcc or egcs.
- Added some comments to the header files to better document a few of the classes.
- Fixed a bug in the pipe mode with lines that start with ``^$$''.
- Added support for ignoring all words less than or equal to a specified length
- New soundslike code based thanks to the contribution of Björn Jacke. It now
gets all of its data from a table making it easier for other people to add soundslike
code for their native language. He also converted the metaphone algorithm to
table form, eliminating the need for the old metaphone code.
- Major redesign of the suggestion code for better results.
- Changed the format of the personal word lists. In most cases it should be converted
automatically.
- Changed the format of the main word list.
- Name space cleanup for more consistent naming. I now use name spaces which means
that gcc 2.8.* and egcs 1.0.* will no longer cut it.
- Used file locks when reading and saving the personal dictionaries so that it
truly multiprocess safe.
- Added rudimentary filter support.
- Reworked the configuration system once again. However, the changes to the end
user who does not directly use my library should be minimal.
- Rewrote my code that handles parsing command line parameters so that it no longer
uses popt as it was causing to many problems and didn't integrate well with
my new configuration system.
- Fixed pipe mode so that it will properly ignore lines starting with '~' for
better ispell compatibility.
- Aspell now has a new home page at http://aspell.sourceforge.net/. Please
make note of the new URL.
- Miscellaneous manual fixes and clarifications.
- Fixed a bug that caused aspell to crash when spell checking words over 60 characters
long.
- Reworked ``aspell check'' so that
- You no longer have to hit enter when making a choice.
- It will now overwrite the original file instead of creating a new file. An optional
backup can be made by using the -b option.
- Fixed a few bugs in data.cc.
- Fixed the version number for the shared library.
- Fixed a problem with undefined references when linking to the shared library.
- Fixed a bunch of bugs in the language and configuration classes.
- Minor changed in the code so that it could compile with the new gcc 2.95(.1).
- Changed the output of ``dump config'' so that default values are given the
value "<default>". This means that the output can be used
to created a configuration file.
- Added notes on using aspell with VIM.
- Removed some debug output
- Changed notes on compiling with gcc 2.8.* as I managed to get it to compile
on my school account
- Avoided included stdexcept in const_string.hh so that I could
get to compile on my schools account with gcc 2.8.1.
- Provided an iterator for the replacement classes.
- Added support for dumping and creating and merging the personal and replacement
word lists.
- Changed the aspell utility command line a bit, it now used popt.
- Totally reworked aspell configuration system. Now aspell can get configuration
from any of 5 sources: the command line, the environmental variable ASPELL_CONF,
the personal configuration file, the global configuration file, and finally
the compiled in defaults.
- Totally reworked the language class in preparation for my new language code.
See http://aspell.sourceforge.net/international/ for more information
of what I have in store.
- Added some options to the configure script: --enable-dict-dir=DIR, --enable-doc-dir=DIR,
--enable-debug, and --enable-opt
- Removed some old header files.
- Reorganized the directory structure a bit
- Made the text version of the manual pages slightly easier to read
- Used the \url command for urls for better formating of the printed
version.
- Fixed a major bug that caused aspell to dump core when used without any arguments
- Fixed another major bug that caused aspell to do nothing when used in interactive
mode.
- Added an option to exit in Aspell's interactive mode.
- Removed some old documentation files from the distribution.
- Minor changes on to the section on using Aspell with egcs.
- Minor changes to remove -Wall warnings.
- Fixed a minor compile problem.
- Updated the section on using Aspell with egcs to it it more clear why the patch
is necessary.
- Totally reworked the C++ library which means you may need to change
some things in your code.
- Added support for detachable and multiple personal dictionaries in the C++ class
library.
- The C++ class library now throws exceptions.
- Reworked aspell ability to learn from users misspellings a bit so that it now
has a memory. See section 3.1.1 for more information.
- Upgraded autoconf to version 2.13 and automake to version 1.4 for better portability.
- Fixed the configuration so the ``make dist'' will work. For now on aspell
will be distributed with ``make dist''.
- Added support to skip over URL's, email addresses and host names.
- Added support for dumping the master and personal word list. You can now also
merge a personal word list. Type aspell -help for help on using this feature.
- Reorganized the source code.
- Started using proper version numbers for the shared library.
- Fixed a bug that caused a spell to crash when adding certain replacement pairs.
- Fixed the problem with duplicate lines when exiting pipe mode for good.
- Fixed another compile problem. Hopefully this time it will really compile OK
on other peoples machines.
- Fixed a small compile problem in as_data.cc.
- Fixed a bug that causes duplicates items to be displayed in the suggestion list
for good. (If it still does it please send be email.)
- Added the ability for aspell to learn form the users misspellings.
- Library Interface changes. Still more to come....
- Is now multiprocess safe. When a personal dictionary (or replacement list) is
saved it will now first update he list against the dictionary on disk in case
another process modified it.
- Fixed the bug that caused duplicate output when used non interactively in pipe
mode.
- Dropped support for gcc 2.7.2 as the C++ compiler.
- Updated the How Aspell Works (6) Chapter.
- Added support for the ASPELL_DATA_DIR environmental variable.
- Fixed the version number so that Aspell reports the correct version number.
- Changed the note on gcc 2.7.2 compilers to make it clear that only the C++ compiler
can not be gcc 2.7.2, it is ok if the C compiler is gcc 2.7.2.
- Updated the TODO list and reorganized it a bit.
- Fixed the directory so that all the documentation will get installed in ${prefix}/doc/aspell
instead of half of it in ${prefix}/doc/aspell and half of it in ${prefix}/doc/kspell.
- Total rework of how the main word list is stored. Start up time decreased to
about 1/3 of what it was in .24 and memory usage decreased to about 2/3. (When
used with the provided word list on a Linux system). Also the format
and default locations of the main word list data files changed in the process
and the data is now machine dependent. The personal word list format,
however, stayed the same.
- Changed the scoring method to produce slightly better results with words like
the vs. teh. And other simpler misspellings where two letters are swapped.
- Fixed the very unpredictable behavior of the '*', '&', '@' commands in the
pipe mode.
- Added documentations for Aspell pipe mode (also known as ispell -a compatibility
mode)
- Added a bunch of Aspell specific extensions to the pipe mode and documented
them.
- Documented the to_soundslike and soundslike methods for the
aspell class.
- Changed the scoring method to produce better results for words like ``fone''
vs ``phone'' and other words that have a spelling that doesn't directly relate
to how the word sounds by using the phoneme equivalent of the word in the scoring
of it.
- Added the to_phoneme and have_phoneme methods to the SC_Language
class.
- Added the to_phoneme method to the aspell class.
- Added the framework for being able to learn from the users misspelling. Right
now it just keep a log of replacements.
- Re did stl_rope-30.diff. For some reason the version of patch
on my system refused it.
- Rewrite of the ``Using as a replacement for Ispell'' section and added the
run-with-aspell utility as a replacement of the old method of mapping
Ispell to Aspell.
- Fixed a bug that caused duplicate words to appear in the suggestion list.
- Fixed my code so that it can once again compile with g++ 2.7.2.
- Rewrote the How It Works chapter.
- Rewrote the Requirement section and added noted on compiling with g++ 2.7.2.
- Added a To Do chapter.
- Added a Glossary and References chapter.
- Other minor documentation improvements.
- Internal code documentation improvements.
- Minor documentation fixes.
- Changed the scoring strategy for words with 3 or less letters. This cut the
number of words returned for these roughly in half.
- Expanded the word list to also include american.0 and american.1
from the Ispell distribution. It now includes english.0, english.1,
american.0 and american.1 from the directory languages/english
provided with Ispell 3.1.20.
- Added a link to the location of the latest Ispell.el in the documentation.
- Started a C interface and added some rough documentation for it.
- Minor bug fixes. I was deleting arrays with delete rather than delete[].
I was suppressed that this had not created a problem.
- Added a simple test program to test for a memory leak present on some systems.
(Only debian slink at the moment.) See the file memleak-test.cc for more info.
- Major redesign or the scoring method. It now uses absolute distances rather
than relative scores for more consistent results. See suggest.cc for more info.
- Suggest code rewritten is several places however the core process stayed the
same.
- The suggest_ultra method temporally does nothing. It should be working again
by the next release.
- Added documentation for aspell::Error
- Changed the library name from libspell to libaspell. It should never
have been libspell in the first place. Sorry for the incompatibility.
- Added as_error.hh to the list of files copied to the include directory
so that you can actually use the library outside of the source dir.
- Fixed bug that caused a segmentation fault with words where the only suggestions
was inserting a space or hyphen such as in ``ledgerline''.
- Added the score method to aspell.
- Changed the scoring method to deal with word when the user uses "f"
in place of "ph" a lot better.
- Name change. Everything that was Kspell is
now Aspell. Sorry, the name Kspell was already used by KDE and I didn't want
to cause any confusion.
- Fixed a bug that causes a segmentation fault when the HOME environmental variable
doesn't exist.
- Overhaul of the SC_Language class
- Added documentation for international support
- Added documentation for the C++ library
- Other minor bug fixes.
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Kevin Atkinson
2000-02-18