Questions tagged [aspell]
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Configuring aspell to support UTF-8 encoded texts
I have installed apell 0.50.3 on my Windows 10 system. I want to check LaTeX documents like this "demo.tex":
\doucmentstyle{article}
\begin{document}
\chapter{Übersicht}
\end{document}
When I run ...
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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 ...
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Problems with installing 'aspell'
I am new to this community so I hope this is the right place to ask this question. I am trying to install aspell stable version, a spell checker software which I intend to use for my latex documents, ...
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Aspell dictionary shows up offensive words?
If you do this in Linux,
aspell -d en dump master | aspell -l en expand > words
it shows up some offensive words like bitches etc.
Is there an aspell dictionary list that doesn't contain such ...
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aspell, contractions, and curved-quotes
In recent emacs, there is the possibility to turn on electric-quote-mode; see e.g. the manual, here.
And then e.g. ordinary single-quotes ' are automatically replaced with curved-quotes ’ as one ...
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Using aspell with emacs on Debian
I have a personal spelling dictionary that I'd like to share between a laptop running Windows + Cygwin, and a desktop computer that runs Debian.
Emacs(21) comes with ispell integration, M-x ispell-...
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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 ...
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aspell: Domain-specific dictionary (computer science) [closed]
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 ...
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How do I find out where emacs 24 (OSX) puts my aspell corrections?
I would like to see if it's possible to back them up into github with the rest of my dotfiles.
I searched the config options, but am only seeing the default dictionaries used. I'd like to know where ...
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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, ...
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How do I add missing dictionaries for aspell? [closed]
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 ...
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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 ...
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Obtaining a list of words from a GNU aspell dictionary [duplicate]
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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 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 pl.wl:
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hippie
hippies
hippiesowski/bXxYc
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MacBook Pro - Aquamacs - spell check
I have tried to use spell check for aquamac.
I highlighted a region of the text. Then clicked Edit, then spell check region. I got the error message:
Error : No word lists can be found for the ...
peggy Li