I saw the discussion about removing ispell go past a while back and didn't think much about it, but today I wrote a check for one of my packages to spell-check the documentation and discovered that ispell is the only easily usable spell-checker in Debian currently for this application.
The interface I want is the ispell -l interface, which prints the misspelled words to standard output. The alternatives that I know of are aspell and hunspell. aspell doesn't support -l, only the more complex -a interface, unless I'm missing something in its documentation. hunspell doesn't support contractions (see Bug#491638). Given that, I think keeping ispell for right now is better than the alternatives, although I'd happy use one of the alternatives if they properly supported -l. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
