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diff --git a/extensions/spellcheck/hunspell/src/README b/extensions/spellcheck/hunspell/src/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..27240e7880 --- /dev/null +++ b/extensions/spellcheck/hunspell/src/README @@ -0,0 +1,315 @@ +# About Hunspell + +Hunspell is a free spell checker and morphological analyzer library +and command-line tool, licensed under LGPL/GPL/MPL tri-license. + +Hunspell is used by LibreOffice office suite, free browsers, like +Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome, and other tools and OSes, like +Linux distributions and macOS. It is also a command-line tool for +Linux, Unix-like and other OSes. + +It is designed for quick and high quality spell checking and +correcting for languages with word-level writing system, +including languages with rich morphology, complex word compounding +and character encoding. + +Hunspell interfaces: Ispell-like terminal interface using Curses +library, Ispell pipe interface, C++/C APIs and shared library, also +with existing language bindings for other programming languages. + +Hunspell's code base comes from OpenOffice.org's MySpell library, +developed by Kevin Hendricks (originally a C++ reimplementation of +spell checking and affixation of Geoff Kuenning's International +Ispell from scratch, later extended with eg. n-gram suggestions), +see http://lingucomponent.openoffice.org/MySpell-3.zip, and +its README, CONTRIBUTORS and license.readme (here: license.myspell) files. + +Main features of Hunspell library, developed by László Németh: + + - Unicode support + - Highly customizable suggestions: word-part replacement tables and + stem-level phonetic and other alternative transcriptions to recognize + and fix all typical misspellings, don't suggest offensive words etc. + - Complex morphology: dictionary and affix homonyms; twofold affix + stripping to handle inflectional and derivational morpheme groups for + agglutinative languages, like Azeri, Basque, Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian, + Turkish; 64 thousand affix classes with arbitrary number of affixes; + conditional affixes, circumfixes, fogemorphemes, zero morphemes, + virtual dictionary stems, forbidden words to avoid overgeneration etc. + - Handling complex compounds (for example, for Finno-Ugric, German and + Indo-Aryan languages): recognizing compounds made of arbitrary + number of words, handle affixation within compounds etc. + - Custom dictionaries with affixation + - Stemming + - Morphological analysis (in custom item and arrangement style) + - Morphological generation + - SPELLML XML API over plain spell() API function for easier integration + of stemming, morpological generation and custom dictionaries with affixation + - Language specific algorithms, like special casing of Azeri or Turkish + dotted i and German sharp s, and special compound rules of Hungarian. + +Main features of Hunspell command line tool, developed by László Németh: + + - Reimplementation of quick interactive interface of Geoff Kuenning's Ispell + - Parsing formats: text, OpenDocument, TeX/LaTeX, HTML/SGML/XML, nroff/troff + - Custom dictionaries with optional affixation, specified by a model word + - Multiple dictionary usage (for example hunspell -d en_US,de_DE,de_medical) + - Various filtering options (bad or good words/lines) + - Morphological analysis (option -m) + - Stemming (option -s) + +See man hunspell, man 3 hunspell, man 5 hunspell for complete manual. + +# Dependencies + +Build only dependencies: + + g++ make autoconf automake autopoint libtool + +Runtime dependencies: + +| | Mandatory | Optional | +|---------------|------------------|------------------| +|libhunspell | | | +|hunspell tool | libiconv gettext | ncurses readline | + +# Compiling on GNU/Linux and Unixes + +We first need to download the dependencies. On Linux, `gettext` and +`libiconv` are part of the standard library. On other Unixes we +need to manually install them. + +For Ubuntu: + + sudo apt install autoconf automake autopoint libtool + +Then run the following commands: + + autoreconf -vfi + ./configure + make + sudo make install + sudo ldconfig + +For dictionary development, use the `--with-warnings` option of +configure. + +For interactive user interface of Hunspell executable, use the +`--with-ui option`. + +Optional developer packages: + + - ncurses (need for --with-ui), eg. libncursesw5 for UTF-8 + - readline (for fancy input line editing, configure parameter: + --with-readline) + +In Ubuntu, the packages are: + + libncurses5-dev libreadline-dev + +# Compiling on OSX and macOS + +On macOS for compiler always use `clang` and not `g++` because Homebrew +dependencies are build with that. + + brew install autoconf automake libtool gettext + brew link gettext --force + +Then run autoreconf, configure, make. See above. + +# Compiling on Windows + +## Compiling with Mingw64 and MSYS2 + +Download Msys2, update everything and install the following + packages: + + pacman -S base-devel mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain mingw-w64-x86_64-libtool + +Open Mingw-w64 Win64 prompt and compile the same way as on Linux, see +above. + +## Compiling in Cygwin environment + +Download and install Cygwin environment for Windows with the following +extra packages: + + - make + - automake + - autoconf + - libtool + - gcc-g++ development package + - ncurses, readline (for user interface) + - iconv (character conversion) + +Then compile the same way as on Linux. Cygwin builds depend on +Cygwin1.dll. + +# Debugging + +It is recommended to install a debug build of the standard library: + + libstdc++6-6-dbg + +For debugging we need to create a debug build and then we need to start +`gdb`. + + ./configure CXXFLAGS='-g -O0 -Wall -Wextra' + make + ./libtool --mode=execute gdb src/tools/hunspell + +You can also pass the `CXXFLAGS` directly to `make` without calling +`./configure`, but we don't recommend this way during long development +sessions. + +If you like to develop and debug with an IDE, see documentation at +https://github.com/hunspell/hunspell/wiki/IDE-Setup + +# Testing + +Testing Hunspell (see tests in tests/ subdirectory): + + make check + +or with Valgrind debugger: + + make check + VALGRIND=[Valgrind_tool] make check + +For example: + + make check + VALGRIND=memcheck make check + +# Documentation + +features and dictionary format: + + man 5 hunspell + man hunspell + hunspell -h + +http://hunspell.github.io/ + +# Usage + +After compiling and installing (see INSTALL) you can run the Hunspell +spell checker (compiled with user interface) with a Hunspell or Myspell +dictionary: + + hunspell -d en_US text.txt + +or without interface: + + hunspell + hunspell -d en_GB -l <text.txt + +Dictionaries consist of an affix (.aff) and dictionary (.dic) file, for +example, download American English dictionary files of LibreOffice +(older version, but with stemming and morphological generation) with + + wget -O en_US.aff https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/dictionaries/plain/en/en_US.aff?id=a4473e06b56bfe35187e302754f6baaa8d75e54f + wget -O en_US.dic https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/dictionaries/plain/en/en_US.dic?id=a4473e06b56bfe35187e302754f6baaa8d75e54f + +and with command line input and output, it's possible to check its work quickly, +for example with the input words "example", "examples", "teached" and +"verybaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad": + + $ hunspell -d en_US + Hunspell 1.7.0 + example + * + + examples + + example + + teached + & teached 9 0: taught, teased, reached, teaches, teacher, leached, beached + + verybaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad + # verybaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad 0 + +Where in the output, `*` and `+` mean correct (accepted) words (`*` = dictionary stem, +`+` = affixed forms of the following dictionary stem), and +`&` and `#` mean bad (rejected) words (`&` = with suggestions, `#` = without suggestions) +(see man hunspell). + +Example for stemming: + + $ hunspell -d en_US -s + mice + mice mouse + +Example for morphological analysis (very limited with this English dictionary): + + $ hunspell -d en_US -m + mice + mice st:mouse ts:Ns + + cats + cats st:cat ts:0 is:Ns + cats st:cat ts:0 is:Vs + +# Other executables + +The src/tools directory contains the following executables after compiling. + + - The main executable: + - hunspell: main program for spell checking and others (see + manual) + - Example tools: + - analyze: example of spell checking, stemming and morphological + analysis + - chmorph: example of automatic morphological generation and + conversion + - example: example of spell checking and suggestion + - Tools for dictionary development: + - affixcompress: dictionary generation from large (millions of + words) vocabularies + - makealias: alias compression (Hunspell only, not back compatible + with MySpell) + - wordforms: word generation (Hunspell version of unmunch) + - hunzip: decompressor of hzip format + - hzip: compressor of hzip format + - munch (DEPRECATED, use affixcompress): dictionary generation + from vocabularies (it needs an affix file, too). + - unmunch (DEPRECATED, use wordforms): list all recognized words + of a MySpell dictionary + +Example for morphological generation: + + $ ~/hunspell/src/tools/analyze en_US.aff en_US.dic /dev/stdin + cat mice + generate(cat, mice) = cats + mouse cats + generate(mouse, cats) = mice + generate(mouse, cats) = mouses + +# Using Hunspell library with GCC + +Including in your program: + + #include <hunspell.hxx> + +Linking with Hunspell static library: + + g++ -lhunspell-1.7 example.cxx + # or better, use pkg-config + g++ $(pkg-config --cflags --libs hunspell) example.cxx + +## Dictionaries + +Hunspell (MySpell) dictionaries: + + - https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Language_support_of_LibreOffice + - http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/dictionaries + - http://extensions.libreoffice.org + - http://extensions.openoffice.org + - http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Dictionaries + +Aspell dictionaries (conversion: man 5 hunspell): + + - ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/aspell/dict + +László Németh, nemeth at numbertext org + |