1Developer Credits:
2
3Special credit and thanks go to ispell's creator Geoff Kuenning.
4Ispell affix compression code was used as the basis for the
5affix code used in MySpell. Specifically Geoff's use of a
6conds[] array that makes it easy to check if the conditions
7required for a particular affix are present was very
8ingenious! Kudos to Geoff.  Very nicely done.
9BTW: ispell is available under a BSD style license
10from Geoff Kuennings ispell website:
11http://www.cs.ucla.edu/ficus-members/geoff/ispell.html
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14Kevin Hendricks <kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca> is the original
15author and now maintainer of the MySpell codebase.  Recent
16additions include ngram support, and related character maps
17to help improve and create suggestions for very poorly
18spelled words.
19
20Please send any and all contributions or improvements
21to him or to dev@lingucomponent.openoffice.org.
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24David Einstein (Deinst@world.std.com) developed an almost
25complete rewrite of MySpell for use by the Mozilla project.
26David and I are now working on parallel development tracks
27to help our respective projects (Mozilla and OpenOffice.org)
28and we will maintain full affix file and dictionary file
29compatibility and work on merging our versions of MySpell
30back into a single tree. David has been a significant help
31in improving MySpell.
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34Németh László <nemethl@gyorsposta.hu> is the author of
35the Hungarian dictionary and he developed and contributed
36extensive changes to MySpell including ...
37  * code to support compound words in MySpell
38  * fixed numerous problems with encoding case conversion tables.
39  * designed/developed replacement tables to improve suggestions
40  * changed affix file parsing to trees to greatly speed loading
41  * removed the need for malloc/free pairs in suffix_check which
42      speeds up spell checking in suffix rich languages by 20%
43
44Davide Prina <davideprina@uahoo.com>, Giuseppe Modugno
45<gppe.modugno@libero.it>, Gianluca Turconi <luctur@comeg.it>
46all from the it_IT OpenOffice.org team performed an
47extremely  detailed code review of MySpell and generated
48fixes for bugs, leaks, and speedup improvements.
49
50Simon Brouwer <simon.oo.o@xs4all.nl> for fixes and enhancements
51that have greatly improved MySpell auggestions
52  * n-gram suggestions for an initcap word have an init. cap.
53  * fix for too many n-gram suggestions from specialized dictionary,
54  * fix for long suggestions rather than close ones in case of
55      dictionaries with many compound words (kompuuter)
56  * optionally disabling split-word suggestions (controlled
57      by NOSPLITSUGS line in affix file)
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60Special Thanks to all others who have either contributed ideas or
61testing for MySpell
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64Thanks,
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66Kevin Hendricks
67kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca
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