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How to convert aspell dictionary to simple list of words?

For some languages, e.g. Italian, expanding is not enough and you will have to do some more processing to get a list of plain words. This is the command I use to get a list of words in Italian (note ...
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What file extension do OpenOffice Dictionary files have?

From OpenOffice Wiki - Extension Dictionaries : Extensions should be created as oxt files and uploaded to the repository. Only that way checking for available updates will happen automatically. ...
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Google Chrome Dictionary Location

The actual dictionary is baked into the browser when it is compiled, so you can't normally find or edit it without re-compiling Chrome yourself. That said, there are a bunch of dictionaries, and they'...
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Make a numeric dictionary in notepad++?

Don't know if you need to use NppScripts for this, but if you simply want to create a text file in the format you listed you could use simple cmd line code. (for /L %n in (1,1,100000) DO @ECHO %n ^|^|...
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How to convert stardict dictionary file format to any readable format?

Your can use this: https://github.com/ilius/pyglossary If your need install it for user on linux your can create virtualenv and acrivate it git clone https://github.com/ilius/pyglossary.git cd ...
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Google Chrome Dictionary Location

Location of Custom Dictionary.txt on MAC has changed yet again. This is due to the fact that Chrome now supports multiple user profiles. It is now: /Users/username/Library/Application Support/Google/...
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How to use three finger tap for dictionary lookup in Firefox?

Firefox has a history of this feature being broken: macOS 10.7 - 10.10 being broken was Firefox bug #687026 (fixed) macOS 10.11 being broken was Firefox bug #1212527 (fixed) With both tickets being ...
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Add word with pipe/vertical bar to MS Word or Office Dictionary

You can trick Word by using a Unicode control character called Zero Width Joiner (ZWJ). Here's how: First, type the word Wolfram. When it's marked as a spelling mistake, add it to your dictionary. I ...
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Using *.bdc files in GoldenDict

The project https://github.com/ilius/pyglossary tried to do that conversion but the developer seems to have abandoned the idea BDC files are encrypted and proprietary files so it's even illegal to ...
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How can I open .dictionary files on OSX?

As described in this question .dictionary are bundles not files. These bundles are special macOS directories that Finder shows as single objects. Contents can be shown by right click and "Show ...
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How to crack my MacBook’s password?

Unless you have your Firevault key or you connected it to an Apple ID, you're in trouble. If one of those is true, you can use the official Apple support page which I linked below. Also, if you're ...
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Firefox on Ubuntu spell checks with British dictionary

Any insights are appreciated! On Firefox you can right click in any text field to set the spell check Language and whether Check Spelling is enabled. This setting is site specific. On Super User I ...
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Text-to-speech in GoldenDict

The same solution should work in Windows, but you need something equivalent to espeak. Here is a PowerShell snippet that, using .NET classes, reads some text: Add-Type -AssemblyName System.speech $...
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Outlook: add a specific word to be highlighted as an error

This is quite easy. You need to add Philip to the exclusion list. Open the %AppData%\Microsoft\UProof directory and edit the ExcludeDictionary[LANG][LCID].lex file with Notepad (where LANG is a ...
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Can MS Word automatically insert spaces between conjoined (pasted) words intelligently?

Note: It's been two years since this question was asked, but I also have (had) this problem as of writing This solution requires Google Chrome (and the built-in PDF plugin) Open the PDF in Google ...
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How to Optimize a Dictionary / Word List?

Using some tools like grep, sed, awk, & sort you can implement some answers from this other site. They include (if you wanted b then d then everything else normally): Pull out lines in the order ...
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LibreOffice dictionary and spell checking in other languages? (without Java)

After searching online on various places and trying several files I found that this Dutch dictionary works for LibreOffice Writer 6.0.5.2: https://sourceforge.net/projects/aoo-extensions/files/1456/6/...
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Why did Microsoft Word switch to French spell check on me?

This is a weird bug in Word, which still exists in Word 365 (just encountered it in October 2022!). I tried various solutions mentioned above, and none worked. In the end when I went into this ...
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