Aspell and Hunspell: A Tale of Two Spell Checkers Thread poster: CafeTran Trainer
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Testing Aspell with:
excersized
enterperuner
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Quite impressive ...
[Edited at 2022-01-23 10:00 GMT]
| | | | Samuel Murray 
Netherlands
Local time: 03:13
Member (2006)
English to Afrikaans
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Try testing it with words where the misspelled part is at the start of the word.
| | | | Samuel Murray
Netherlands
Local time: 03:13
Member (2006)
English to Afrikaans
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| OmegaT, Hunspell | Jan 23, 2022 |
Firstly, to make matters fairer, you need to tell us the version number listed in the AFF file. I tested OmegaT using "David Bartlett, Andrew Brown, R 1.20, 30/11/06" for en-GB. Ideally, one also has to indicate whether the app uses the vanilla version of Hunspell and which version it uses, but I realise that this information isn't always accessible.
On to OmegaT on Windows 10:
That said, I don't really use spell-checkers as "spelling checkers" myself. I use them as typo checkers. In other words, when a word is flagged, I usually already know how to spell it correctly, so I don't need the spell-checker to teach me. I just need the spell-checker to identify a potential typing error, and then I manually correct it.
In cases where I truly don't know how to spell the word, it's often faster to just try various different options manually and see when the squiggly lines disappear (this may be because of the extra effort involved in activating the interactive spell-checker).
Added: many years ago, before OmegaT offered spell-checking, I had an AutoIt script that used Aspell to spell-check in OmegaT, but even then, I found it easier to just list the unrecognized words, as opposed to suggesting possible corrections:
[Edited at 2022-01-23 12:42 GMT]
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| | | Scores are very much alike | Jan 24, 2022 |
Samuel Murray wrote:
Try testing it with words where the misspelled part is at the start of the word.
I found this one, where Aspell performed better:
| | | | | | | Check via web | Jan 24, 2022 |
Samuel Murray wrote:
In cases where I truly don't know how to spell the word, it's often faster to just try various different options manually and see when the squiggly lines disappear (this may be because of the extra effort involved in activating the interactive spell-checker).
Aren't there any web resources for correct spelling of Afrikaans? For Dutch we have:
https://woordenlijst.org/#/?q=onmidelijk
And:
About the 'extra effort': it's very easy to create an AutoHotkey macro to query the web resources.
[Edited at 2022-01-24 07:46 GMT]
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Samuel Murray
Netherlands
Local time: 03:13
Member (2006)
English to Afrikaans
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German-Dutch Engineering Translation wrote:
Samuel Murray wrote:
...this may be because of the extra effort involved in activating the interactive spell-checker.
Aren't there any web resources for correct spelling of Afrikaans?
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About the 'extra effort': it's very easy to create an AutoHotkey macro to query the web resources.
What I meant by "extra effort" is having to take my hand off the keyboard, grab the mouse, and right-click on the word, in order to see a list of suggestions. It's faster to correct a typo by just pressing the backspace key on the keyboard and retyping a new attempt at the word.
| | | | | Even simpler | Jan 24, 2022 |
Samuel Murray wrote:
What I meant by "extra effort" is having to take my hand off the keyboard, grab the mouse, and right-click on the word, in order to see a list of suggestions. It's faster to correct a typo by just pressing the backspace key on the keyboard and retyping a new attempt at the word.
CafeTran let’s you cycle through suggestions by pressing CTRL+Space:
[Edited at 2022-01-25 08:50 GMT]
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