Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2004 From: Kevin Atkinson Subject: ANNOUNCE: GNU Aspell 0.51-20040105 A Pre Aspell 0.51 snapshot, version 0.51-20040105, is now available. Major changes in Aspell since 0.50: * Added support for loadable filters thanks to Christoph Hintermüller * Enhanced TEX filter to support recognize accent commands, such as the German umlaute, and to treat words with hyphenation characters in them as one word, also thanks to Christoph Hintermüller * Added gettext support thanks to Sergey Poznyakoff * Reworked how the dictionary is stored to take up less space (around 80% for the English language) and be faster in some cases. * Reworked the build system so that a single Makefile is used for most of the code. I would really appreciate it if people could test it out and report back any bugs to the appropriate tracker at http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=245 . Due to the changes in the build system I would really appreciate it if package maintains could attempt to package it and report back any problems. Since this is a pre-release version please DO NOT replace Aspell 0.50 with the snapshot as I do not consider it sufficiently stable yet. In particular, the way loadable filters are handles and the dictionary format may change before Aspell 0.51. The gettext support is untested so I would really appreciate it if some people with knowledge of how gettext is suppose to work could test it out and report any problems. I would also appreciate it if some people could work on translations. Currently there are outdated translates for "es" and "fr". You can find the snapshot at http://aspell.net/devel/aspell-0.51-20030105.tar.gz Future snapshots will be uploaded to http://aspell.net/devel/. It is unlikely that I will announce every snapshot release to aspell-announce. So, if you are interested in following Aspell development I suggest you subscribe to aspell-devel. -- http://kevin.atkinson.dhs.org