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diff --git a/libs/hunspell/docs/README.myspell b/libs/hunspell/docs/README.myspell deleted file mode 100644 index 25934eec01..0000000000 --- a/libs/hunspell/docs/README.myspell +++ /dev/null @@ -1,69 +0,0 @@ -MySpell is a simple spell checker that uses affix -compression and is modelled after the spell checker -ispell. - -MySpell was written to explore how affix compression -can be implemented. - -The Main features of MySpell are: - -1. written in C++ to make it easier to interface with - Pspell, OpenOffice, AbiWord, etc - -2. it is stateless, uses no static variables and - should be completely reentrant with almost no - ifdefs - -3. it tries to be as compatible with ispell to - the extent it can. It can read slightly modified - versions of munched ispell dictionaries (and it - comes with a munched english wordlist borrowed from - Kevin Atkinson's excellent Aspell. - -4. it uses a heavily modified aff file format that - can be derived from ispell aff files but uses - the iso-8859-X character sets only - -5. it is simple with *lots* of comments that - describes how the affixes are stored - and tested for (based on the approach used by - ispell). - -6. it supports improved suggestions with replacement - tables and ngram-scoring based mechanisms in addition - to the main suggestion mechanisms - -7. like ispell it has a BSD license (and no - advertising clause) - -But ... it has *no* support for adding words -to a personal dictionary, *no* support for converting -between various text encodings, and *no* command line -interface (it is purely meant to be a library). - -It can not (in any way) replace all of the functionality -of ispell or aspell/pspell. It is meant as a learning -tool for understanding affix compression and for -being used by front ends like OpenOffice, Abiword, etc. - -MySpell has been tested under Linux and Solaris -and has the world's simplest Makefile and no -configure support. - -It does come with a simple example program that -spell checks some words and returns suggestions. - -To build a static library and an example -program under Linux simply type: - -tar -zxvf myspell.tar.gz -cd myspell2 -make - -To run the example program: -./example ./en_US.aff ./en_US.dic checkme.lst - -Please play around with it and let me know -what you think. - -Please see the file CONTRIBUTORS for more info. |