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Questions tagged [aspell]

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How do I add missing dictionaries for aspell?

Aspell version: $ aspell -v @(#) International Ispell Version 3.1.20 (but really Aspell 0.60.6) Dump dict yields no results: $ aspell dump dicts First noticed the problem when I did this, was originally working on web server, but someone updated…
Ahmed
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How to convert aspell dictionary to simple list of words?

I want to get list of all words from aspell dictionary. I downloaded aspell and aspell polish dictionary, then unziped it using: preunzip pl.cwl I got…
rafalmag
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How to exclude {{{ ... }}} in flyspell-mode and flyspell-buffer?

I edit a lot of MoinMoinWiki pages in my emacs and love the flyspell-mode. Preformatted stuff in {{{...}}} (in multiple lines) as well as "backtick text backtick" usually contains snippets of programming code which make no sense to spellcheck. Can I…
towi
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Spell checking reStructuredText

I'm writing and correcting API documentation in Sphinx using reStructuredText. Does anyone know of a good spellchecker that will handle this format, or a bunch of Unix/Linux tools that will allow me to use Aspell with it?
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aspell dictionaries and wordlist

I'm a bit confused as to how aspell works with dictionaries: The online manual mentions "word lists" and dictionaries. What's the difference between the two? If during a spell check I press "I" to add the new word, to which dictionary is it added?…
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Using a dictionary with aspell and emacs that is not listed by ispell

I am running Emacs 23 and Aspell in a Debian Squeeze system. I've installed the aspell-hi package and spell checking of Hindi files works fine from the command line. I've set up aspell to replace ispell in emacs using the instructions here. …
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How to set XChat spell checking to use a different language from the system default?

I'm using Xubuntu 10.10. The system's language is not English (actually it is Hungarian), however I would like to use English spell checking with XChat. Is it even possible?
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How to install spell check dictionaries in Gedit on Windows

We are a charity that helps disadvantaged people to get back on track. To this end we provide them with paid occupation. One of them is proof-reading/editing of ancient OCRed texts that we release later under the GNU Free Documentation License.…
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aspell: Domain-specific dictionary (computer science)

I am using aspell for spell checking scientific computer science papers. Do you know of any existing domain-specific dictionaries that cover all corresponding terms not present within the standard aspell English dictionary?
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Obtaining a list of words from a GNU aspell dictionary

I downloaded the aspell package for Bengali language dictionary support. From the tarball, I was able to isolate the bn.wl file, which is simply a list of about 100,000 words, one on each line. The problem is that the encoding is apparently…
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Ignore all on set of words (ASPELL)

How can I tell aspell to ignore given set of words. I do need pass that list as input parameter, so I don't need to put ignore all interactively. As I have a loop for over 100 files in which I call aspell to check the syntax on each one.
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How do I add more words to an existing Aspell dictionary?

I have installed Aspell dictionary to spell check my document. But in the document there are some words which are spelled incorrectly but I do not want Aspell to detect those as incorrect. So, basically I want to add those words to the existing…
user3710832
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How to remove certain Aspell dictionaries?

If I run aspell dump dicts, I get the following dictionaries listed. If I just want to keep en_GB and en_US, how can I get rid of the others? I've been through the documentation here but don't see how to do…
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Can I ask aspell to search multiple paths for dictionary files?

I've managed to get custom dictionaries working with aspell by creating a .multi file which adds my custom .rws file on top of my base language. In my case en-GB. My "foo" variant is in a separate part of the file system at…
Tim
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Using aspell to check many files in a cancellable way

I'm on macOS and using zsh. I have about a hundred Markdown files which I would like to spell check from the command line. It seems like aspell is the right way to do this, however I want to be able to bail out of the spell checking before it's…
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