Announce: Hspell 1.1

[Nadav Har'El]

We are proud to present version 1.1 of Hspell, the free Hebrew spell-checker
and morphological analyzer.

You can find the new release in the project's homepage:
        http://hspell.ivrix.org.il/

Over three years have passed since our previous release. In that time, we
continued to improve Hspell's vocabulary, and enlarged it by 900 more base
words. Hspell is now closer to full coverage of the modern Hebrew language
than it ever was.

We've always been proud of Hspell's accuracy and its compliance with the
spelling standard set by the Academy of the Hebrew Language. Nevertheless,
we continuously get asked why Hspell spells certain words the way that it
does. So, starting with this release, Hspell now includes a document which
describes its spelling standard and discusses the numerous spelling questions
which we had to answer while developing hspell.
This document is still a work in progress, but even at its present form
is already quite readable and, we hope, educational. It is available in
Hspell's tarball, and also online:
	http://hspell.ivrix.org.il/niqqudless.pdf

Not only people who download Hspell from our site will benefit from this
release. For several years now, only a minority of Hspell's users downloaded
it from our site. Hspell has become the de-facto standard Hebrew spell-checker
in the free software world and beyond; It is available in Linux distributions,
in Aspell's and Hunspell's dictionary collections, and as OpenOffice and
Firefox plugins. Even Google's hugely popular mail service, GMail, uses
Hspell as its Hebrew spell-checker. We expect that the new Hspell release
will soon propagate to all these applications, so that their users will
also be able to enjoy the improved vocabulary of Hspell 1.1.

Enjoy Hspell 1.1. No further releases are expected this year ;-)

Nadav Har'El and Dan Kenigsberg.

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