Re: [Texmacs-dev] Spell checking

[David Allouche]

On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 03:00:18AM +0200, Michèle Garoche wrote:
> With the latest version of ispell (ispell-3.2.06-3), the name of 
> dictionaries are localized, that means that for all users other than 
> English users, spell checking within TeXmacs is a nono, unless a 
> symbolic is created in the directory where the dictionary is located.
> 
> For example under Fink, the dictionaries are located in /sw/lib, so for 
> french dictionary, the command is:
> 
> cd /sw/lib
> sudo ln -s francais.hash french.hash

TeXmacs 1.0.1.14 included a modification in the way dictionnary *.hash
files are looked up. Check for find_dictionnary and init_dictionnary
in edit_spell.cc for details.

In in nutshell, alternate spelling should be correctly recognized and
some languages should have fallbacks (e.g. brazilian fallbacks on
portuguese).

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