Re: Spellchecking of manuals

On 16/07/07, Stanislav Petrakov <stannic@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Simon,
>
> 2007/7/16, Simon Large <simon.tortoisesvn@googlemail.com>:
> > There is one curiosity of the spell-checker which I don't understand.
> > In TortoiseMerge, I get spelling errors for:
> > patchoriginal
> > patchpatched
> > oneway
> > reversedpatch
> >
> > which I understand, because they are not in any of the removed tags.
> > But I should also get errors for things like:
> > theirsname
> > minename
> > mergedname
> >
> > which I don't understand because those are not real words, and they
> > are not in my dictionaries, but they still don't get flagged as
> > errors. Do we have the aspell setting which allows concatenation of
> > words enabled by mistake?
> >
> > Hopefully these particular words will go away with a change to the tag
> > stripper, but it highlights a group of words which aspell is not
> > catching.
>
> I've found a bug in Aspell's sgml filter (as at 0.50.x): it don't
> handle quote marks correctly.
> So spellchecking begins when single quote in "don't" in /patchpath
> pair with earlier quote :) Solution: place single quote right after
> last one in many-ATTENTION comment (or write there another "don't" ;)

Good work finding that one. Sadly it's not the answer I was hoping for :(

I suppose I could replace all the single quotes with &rsquo; but that
means the spellchecker will not work properly on those words. And I
don't know what it will do to the translations. Or I could change the
don't into a do not, but that would make the manual sound more formal.
Bleagh.

> Seriously: does anybody volunteer to build aspell 0.60 on Windows?

/me quickly plans long holiday far from any PC

Simon

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