The Danish Ispell Dictionary

This is the Danish dictionary, to be used with ispell version 3.1.

Installation

First check that ispell is installed on your system. If it isn't, you can get the source code from ispell's home page,
http://fmg-www.cs.ucla.edu/geoff/ispell.html.
Note that ispell must be compiled without the directive NO8BIT in the file local.h.

Download idanish-1.2.tar.gz. Then run the commands

  gunzip idanish-1.2.tar.gz
  tar -xvf idanish-1.2.tar
  cd idanish-1.2
  buildhash dansk.0 dansk.aff dansk.hash
  cp dansk.aff dansk.hash /usr/lib/ispell
  cd ..
  rm -r idanish-1.2

(You might have to substitute e.g. /usr/local/lib/ispell for /usr/lib/ispell above. Use ispell -vv | grep LIBDIR to find out the correct location. If you can't write to that directory, copy the files to your home directory and specify the path to dansk.hash each time you run ispell. Use ispell -d ./dansk -C filename to spellcheck filename if dansk.hash is in the current directory.)

Copyright

    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
    the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
    (at your option) any later version.

    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
    GNU General Public License for more details.

The GNU General Public License

The wordlist

The file dansk.0 is based on the wordlist DANSK.WRD which is contained in the file ftp://sable.ox.ac.uk/pub/wordlists/danish/dansk.zip. I do not know who is the author of DANSK.WRD; neither do the maintainer of sable.ox.ac.uk. If you know where the wordlist comes from, please inform me (goran_a@maths.lth.se).

I created my first version of dansk.0 from dansk.zip using the command

  unzip -p dansk.zip | tr -d '\015' | munchlist -l dansk.aff -v > dansk.0

Note that it might take a few hours to run this command, and that you need a lot of memory. The files dansk.zip and dansk.aff must be in the current directory.

Bugs

The dictionary contains a lot of misspelled words.
Names are not capitalized.
The hash file is very large, 1.3-1.6M.

Changes

Wed, 5 Mar 1997: Version 1.2. Minor changes to dansk.0 and to danish.html (this file).
Sun, 2 Mar 1997: Version 1.1. Initial release. The affix file is new. The dictionary is based on a wordlist at ftp://sable.ox.ac.uk/pub/wordlists/danish/dansk.zip. It contains 55,000 roots, expanding into 312,000 words. I do not know who collected the wordlist dansk.zip. If anyone knows, please inform me.

Göran Andersson, <goran_a@maths.lth.se>