Is it possible to have an affix file associated with the personal dictionary?

[BlueCutOfficial]

Hello,

I would like to know it it's possible to have an affix document associated with the personal dictionary?

I tend to think not because...

When I read retext-spell and nspell documentation...

options.dictionary A dictionary, options.personal Personal dictionary
https://github.com/retextjs/retext-spell#optionsdictionary

dictionaries (Array.) — List of dictionary objects. The first must have an aff key, other aff keys are ignored
=> https://github.com/wooorm/nspell#nspelldictionary

Personal dictionaries are not intertwined with affix document.
https://github.com/wooorm/nspell#personal-dictionary-documents

... I kind of understand there can be only one affix document and that the personal dictionary can only contain a list of words. But I am not sure if my understanding is correct, because the example I see in the third link is not quite clear to me:

bar/baz

bar is added as well, but modeled after the existing word baz

I don't understand what this sentence means and how you can define stuff like bar/baz in a personal dictionary.

I am asking because...

I use retext-spell to check markdown files in my native language, but it is technical content and there are a lot of English words that we commonly use in tech, and they can be singular or plural depending on the context. For instance, I would like to authorize "decorator"/"decorators" or "helper"/"helpers". It wouldn't be relevant to translate these tech words, but they don't exist in the French dictionary I use. So far I couldn't figure out how to use syntax like helper/S in the personal dictionary.

Should I define all the versions of a word I need or is there actually a way to configure things like singular/plural in a personal dictionary? 🙏

[wooorm]

Hey!

No, not possible. .dic and .aff files are tightly integrated with each other. If you want a real .aff file, you perhaps need a fork of your french dictionary.

That being said, personal dictionaries work by modelling words: https://github.com/wooorm/nspell#personal-dictionary-documents.
So you model something after a whole entry.

What that means is that, assuming Simon is in the dictionary you are using and has a bunch of rules attached to it, you can add Titus/Simon to model Titus (not in dic) with the same rules that Simon (in dic) gets.

So that practically means you need to find an word in your French dictionary that has an optional s suffix, and use that as the model!

[BlueCutOfficial]

Ok, super clear, thanks a lot for the explanation 👍