Debian distribution for the GUTenberg French dictionary for ispell
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The affixe files (francais.aff and francais-Tex8b.aff) were
modified w.r.t. the upstream distribution so as to be able
to recognize expressions of the form:
	<verb-1st-Sing>-je
	<verb-2nd-Sing>-tu
	<verb-3rd-Sing>-il, <verb-3rd-Sing>-elle, <verb-3rd-Sing>-on
	[se/s']<verb-3rd-Sing>[-t]-il, -elle, -on
	<verb-3rd-Plur>-ils, -elles
	[se/s']<verb-3rd-Sing>[-t]-ils, -elles

The flags that were modified are:
	/u /g /d /w /x /p /q
You can see a complete list of words that are regonized by the
new affix rules using the following script in the package source:

for i in `grep -h "\/.*[ugdwxpq]" dicos/*.dico`; do \
  echo $i | ispell -d french -e; done

We did not check them all. Please contact the package maintainer
if you find any error (especially an word that is accepted and
that should not).
Also note that some constructions (especially reflexive ones) might
still be missing. We tried to include as many constructions as
possible without modifying the .dico files.

Nicolas Sabouret <nico@debian.org>
Wed Jul 23 10:34:52 CEST 2003


The upstream dico files where modified to latin9 (which allows us to
keep the different "oe", like in coexistence and coeur for instance).
However, it is still possible to check latin1 files using:
	ispell -d french -T latin1

Thanks to Lionel Elie Mamane for his contribution.

Nicolas Sabouret <nico@debian.org>
Wed Apr 21 13:35:51 CEST 2004

 -- Lionel Elie Mamane <lmamane@debian.org>, Thu, 28 Jul 2011 13:07:37 +0200
