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@@ -40,46 +40,15 @@ instructions. Developers or others wishing to install from a git repository, see HACKING. -Personal word lists -------------------- +Usage +----- -Personal word lists are simple plain text files with one word per line. -Lines starting with a hash sign (#) are ignored. +See the man pages for information on how to use Enchant. In particular, +information about how to configure which spelling checker to use for each +language and how to work with personal word lists is in the man page +enchant(5). To see this man page, in a terminal, give the command: - -Sharing personal word lists between spell-checkers --------------------------------------------------- - -It is possible, and usually safe, to share Enchant’s personal word lists -with other spelling checkers that use the same format (note that other -spell-checkers may not support comments!). The spell-checkers known to be -compatible are Hunspell, Nuspell and Ispell. (Although Enchant does not -support Ispell as a back-end, it’s still fine to share word lists with it.) -Other spell-checkers supported by Enchant are either incompatible, or have -no personal word list mechanism. There may well be yet other spell-checkers, -unknown to Enchant, that use the same format. - -Some applications use Hunspell or Nuspell, but store the personal word list -under another name or in another location. Firefox is one example. Firefox -also seems to reorder its word list when updating it; again, this is OK, as -the result is still in the same format. Anonther example is Thunderbird. - -To share word lists with Enchant, find the other spelling checker’s word -list file, e.g. ~/.hunspell_fr_FR or ~/.config/nuspell/fr_FR, and merge it -with the corresponding Enchant file, in this case ~/.config/enchant/fr_FR.dic -(on a GNU or BSD system). Use the following command, replacing ENCHANT-DICT -and OTHER-DICT with the corresponding dictionary file names: - -cat ENCHANT-DICT OTHER-DICT | sort -u > merged.txt - -Take a look at merged.txt to check the merge has worked, then - -mv merged.txt ENCHANT-DICT -rm OTHER-DICT -ln -s OTHER-DICT ENCHANT-DICT - -to replace the other dictionary file with a link to the Enchant dictionary, -again filling in the name of the dictionary files. + man 5 enchant Bug reports and development |