On 03/08/2017 02:39 PM, Andrew Toskin wrote: > Repost of my question on Ask Fedora -- https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/101943/how-to-add-words-to-system-spell-check-dictionary/ > > I'm trying to figure out how to add words to a spelling dictionary so that I get the most impact for the effort --- some way to have it apply to all applications, *or at least as many of the ones I actually use* as possible. > > If I have to target specific spell checkers for specific applications, then I'm mostly interested in adding words to the spell checking dictionaries used by the applications I most often compose text with: Firefox for web forms, Evolution for email, Atom and gedit for code and plain text, and LibreOffice for office documents. Each of these applications has a way to add words to their own spelling dictionary, but those dictionaries are application-specific, and I would have to add a given word to all of them. So I've been hunting to see If they share a single spell-check system, or even if there's 2 or 3 systems that covers all of those. Here's what I've found out so far: > > I notice my system in particular has these packages which match "spell" in the name, plus enchant: > > * aspell - 12:0.60.6.1-14.fc25 > * gnome-python2-gtkspell - 2.25.3-48.fc25 > * gspell - 1.2.3-1.fc25 > * gtkspell - 2.0.16-11.fc24 > * gtkspell3 - 3.0.9-1.fc25 > * hunspell - 1.4.1-1.fc25 > * hunspell-en - 0.20140811.1-5.fc24 > * hunspell-en-GB - 0.20140811.1-5.fc24 > * hunspell-en-US - 0.20140811.1-5.fc24 > * enchant - 1:1.6.0-14.fc25 > * python3-enchant - 1.6.8-1.fc25 > > Wikipedia says hunspell replaces myspell and is widely used. `rpm --query --requires` says that Firefox and LibreOffice both depend on hunspell. gedit uses gspell, which relies on enchant, which can use myspell as a backend --- and the directory `/usr/share/myspell/` is actually owned by hunspell. Atom's spell-checking package searches in the myspell directory too, so it seems like I *should* have a good chance of doing everything I want to do from the hunspell configuration. So I tried creating a user addon dictionary by creating the file `~/.hunspell_en_US` containing a few line-separated words (all lower case except for proper nouns, no /flags or anything). However, those words are still marked as a spelling error in all the applications I'm testing on, *except* for hunspell itself, via the command line tool. > > Why isn't it working? According to the man page for hunspell (specifically the bit describing the "-p" option), the default user dictionary should be called "$HOME/.hunspell_default" unless you are using hunspell from the command line and specifying "-p", "-d" or setting the DICTIONARY environment variable. My guess is that your dictionary isn't being referenced. Try renaming it as shown above and try again. Also, "hunspell -D" will show you which directories are searched, which dictionaries are available and which are actually being used (based on your locale). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ricks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 226437340 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - -"Jimmie crack corn and I don't care." What kind of a lousy attitude - - is THAT to have, huh? -- Dennis Miller - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
