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diff --git a/textproc/enchant/DESCR b/textproc/enchant/DESCR new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..07228d4b0da --- /dev/null +++ b/textproc/enchant/DESCR @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +The project aims to provide an efficient extensible abstraction +for dealing with different spell checking libraries. + +Enchant is meant to provide a generic interface into various existing +spell checking libaries. These include, but are not limited to: + * Aspell/Pspell + * Ispell + * Hspell + * Uspell + +Enchant is also meant to be used in a cross-platform (XP) environment. +Part of this means that Enchant wants to limit its number of external +dependencies to 0, or as close is as humanly possible. Also, any +enchant consumer (i.e. a Word Processor) should not need to know +about what backend providers Enchant knows about. In fact, Enchant +shouldn't even need to know this information itself. To accomplish +this, all of Enchant's providers are DLLs. + +Enchant is also meant to be used in a multi-user environment, such +as Unix. It is preferable to have both a $USER and a $GLOBAL +location for both provider DLLs and for dictionaries themselves, +when possible. Enchant's DLL location algorithm takes this into +account, and gives preference to the $USER DLLs, when found. |