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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There's a Sphinx extension for spell checking. It uses enchant, rather than aspell, but perhaps you might find it useful.
https://bitbucket.org/dhellmann/sphinxcontrib-spelling
there's a blog article about it here:
https://doughellmann.com/blog/2011/05/26/creating-a-spelling-checker-for-restructuredtext-documents/
which explains how the extension was created, so if you're set on/stuck with using aspell specifically, maybe you can adapt it to aspell.
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This can only be used for sphinx projects, not for standalone rST files. – cweiske May 11 '17 at 8:32
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Since aspell has options for checking HTML and TeX files, you can spell-check some HTML or Tex produced by Sphinx. I imagine you could also use aspell on text output from Sphinx - assuming that removes any mark-up (e.g. asterisks) that might confuse aspell .
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What would the command line be for checking a single file interactively? – Fred Foo May 22 '11 at 17:18
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I meant the Sphinx command. I can only find the command for building an entire directory full of files, rather than turning a single file into flat text. – Fred Foo May 22 '11 at 18:29
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I need to install
aspell-en(archlinux) to fix the errorError: No word lists can be found for the language "en_US".On other package managers it is listed asen-aspell. – Bryce Guinta Nov 27 '16 at 10:23
