[comp.archives] [tex] Re: French dictionary for Unix spell or ispell?

muller@src.umd.edu (Christophe Muller) (12/12/90)

Archive-name: text/spell/epelle/1990-12-10
Archive: inria.inria.fr:/pub/ics.uci.edu/epelle.tar.Z [128.93.8.1]
Original-posting-by: muller@src.umd.edu (Christophe Muller)
Original-subject: Re: French dictionary for Unix spell or ispell?
Reposted-by: emv@ox.com (Edward Vielmetti)

In article <16118@ists.ists.ca> mike@ists.ists.ca (Mike Clarkson) writes:

>    Does anyone know where there is a French dictionary for either Unix
>    spell or ispell?  Ideally, it would be in a form supports a representation
>    of accents that work with TeX.

Such a tool exists and is available from a ftp site in France. It has been
written by Paul Zimmermann (zimmermann@inria.inria.fr) and is named "epelle"
(spell in French). It is available for ftp from inria.inria.fr [128.93.8.1]
in file "~/pub/ics.uci.edu/epelle.tar.Z".

Epelle is built on top of the Unix spell system, and allows for both TeX
and troff-style accent marks. The dictionary can be used by "look" too.

If there is an interest for it in the US, it would be really nice to have
a ftp site here.

Salut,
Christophe.

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