Posted: Thu 09 Jul 2009, 07:06
Chapter 43 - Ispell
Ispell is an easy to use text interactive spell checker to enhance your GUI environment, making it even better than it already is.
To check a document ispell <filename>
To check spelling on a few words with keyboard input ispell
Some theory, about spell checkers.
You don't want the biggest dictionary for spell checking documents. A medium size dictionary is best because the big one has so many uncommon words, it might not flag a typo, if the typo happens to be spelled same as a rare word.
If you are good speller, a dictionary which doesn't make a lot of suggestions is also fine.
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I compiled this spell checker to correspond with our directories.
Source file location was here: http://ficus-www.cs.ucla.edu/geoff/ispell.html
Should you prefer to do your own compile. The compile is easy, but there are some oddities, so read the documentation and think.
Installation of this package
mv ispell.tar.lzma.zip ispell.tar.lzma
forum won't allow the lzma extension, please consider this an exercise in frustration and I won't to it again.
lzma -d ispell.tar.lzma
tar xvf ispell.tar
install files according to the included README
Chapter 43 - Ispell
Ispell is an easy to use text interactive spell checker to enhance your GUI environment, making it even better than it already is.
To check a document ispell <filename>
To check spelling on a few words with keyboard input ispell
Some theory, about spell checkers.
You don't want the biggest dictionary for spell checking documents. A medium size dictionary is best because the big one has so many uncommon words, it might not flag a typo, if the typo happens to be spelled same as a rare word.
If you are good speller, a dictionary which doesn't make a lot of suggestions is also fine.
---------------
I compiled this spell checker to correspond with our directories.
Source file location was here: http://ficus-www.cs.ucla.edu/geoff/ispell.html
Should you prefer to do your own compile. The compile is easy, but there are some oddities, so read the documentation and think.
Installation of this package
mv ispell.tar.lzma.zip ispell.tar.lzma
forum won't allow the lzma extension, please consider this an exercise in frustration and I won't to it again.
lzma -d ispell.tar.lzma
tar xvf ispell.tar
install files according to the included README
Chapter 43 - Ispell