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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 ...
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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 ...
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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: ... 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 ...
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