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4. Status


4.1 Current

This version of Pspell is still incomplete.

The ``machine unsigned 16'' and ``machine unsigned 32'' encodings are completely untested. The PspellMutableWordList and STL like helper classes are also nonexistent.

Also, building of the shared libraries does not work nearly as well as it should.

4.2 Future

Future version of this library will of course be more complete.

I also hope to eventually use the multi-language branch of libtool so that building of C++ libraries will work a lot better. Unfortunately the CVS multi-language branch of libtools still has tones of problems and only works well on Linux.

Future versions of the interface will provide better support for multi-lingual documents as well as methods for spell checking whole regions of text. Letting the spell checker check whole region of text will allow the spell checker to skip over formating commands, URLs, and the like.

I also plan on coming up with a Pspell utility that will, among other things, function as a drop in replacement for ``ispell -a'' so that Pspell can be used in place of Ispell.


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Kevin Atkinson 2000-06-11