Why does GutenMark use custom “wordlists”?
Or: I already have spelling dictionary installed on my computer, and this wastes precious disk space! GutenMark is designed to be very portable, and the types of spelling dictionaries available differ greatly from one computer platform to the next. Most GutenMark wordlists are derived from the spelling dictionaries of the ispell program, which are installed on many Linux computers. However, even on a Linux platform, some of these ispell dictionaries have technical deficiencies from GutenMark ‘s standpoint. For some languages (such as Latin), no comprehensive ispell dictionary has been previously available. Certainly there is no ispell dictionary of personal and geographical proper names. Therefore, the choice has been made to produce a set of custom wordlists used only by GutenMark, even if it has the unfortunate side effect of increased download-times and disk-usage. Besides, disk-space isn’t all that precious these days, and is getting less precious all of the time.
