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     * 1.1 Comparison to other spell checker engines
          + 1.1.1 Comparison to Ispell
               o 1.1.1.1 Features that only Aspell has
               o 1.1.1.2 Things that only Aspell will have real soon
               o 1.1.1.3 Things that, currently, only Ispell have
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                                1. Introduction
                                       
   Aspell is an Open Source spell checker designed to eventually replace
   Ispell. Its main feature is that it does a much better job of coming
   up with possible suggestions than Ispell does. In fact recent tests
   shows that it even does better than Microsoft Word 97's spell checker
   in some cases. In addition it has both compile time and run time
   support for other non English languages. Aspell also doubles as a
   powerful C++ library with C and Perl interfaces in the works.
   
                 1.1 Comparison to other spell checker engines
                                       
     Aspell Ispell Netscape 4.0 Microsoft Word 97
   Open Source x x
   Suggestion Intelligence 9 5 7? 8
   Personal part of Suggestions x x x
   Alternate Dictionaries x x ? ?
   International Support x x ? ?
   
   The suggestion Intelligence is based on a small test kernel of
   misspelled/correct word pairs. Go to
   http://metalab.unc.edu/kevina/aspell/test for more info and how you
   can help contribute to the test kernel. A ? in the suggestion
   intelligence means that it is a guess based on personal experience.
   
   If you have any other information you would like to add to this chart
   please contact me at kevinatk@home.com.
   
1.1.1 Comparison to Ispell

  1.1.1.1 Features that only Aspell has
  
     * Does a much better job with coming up with suggestions than Ispell
       does.
     * Can learn from users misspellings.
     * Is an actual library that others programs can link to instead of
       having to use it through a pipe.
     * Is multiprocess intelligent. When a personal dictionary (or
       replacement list) is saved it will now first update the list
       against the dictionary on disk in case another process modified
       it.
     * Support for detachable dictionaries so that more than one aspell
       class can use the same dictionary.
     * Support for multiple personal dictionaries as well as support for
       special auxiliarydictionaries.
       
  1.1.1.2 Things that only Aspell will have real soon
  
  1.1.1.3 Things that, currently, only Ispell have
  
     * Lower memory footprint
     * Support for affix compression
     * Support for spell checking Latex and Nroff files.
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