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• ispell 3.3.02

ispell 3.3.02

Summary

Description: Interactive spelling checker
Source: http://fmg-www.cs.ucla.edu/geoff/ispell.html

Support

This package is available for all platforms. This package is unsupported and provided on an as-is basis.

Description

International Ispell is an interactive spell-checking program for Unix which supports a large number of European languages. An emacs interface is available as well as the standard command-line mode.

Changes

3.3.02 2005-06-11

See /usr/pubsw/doc/Dicts/ispell/CHANGES for details.

Usage

There are multiple dictionaries installed for other languages; to see a complete list, type:

    ls /usr/pubsw/lib/ispell

(Many are available under both their native names and English names for the language.) To spell-check a file using a non-English dictionary, use:

    ispell -d deutsch file

replacing deutsch with the name of the language that you want to use. (The name of the files in /usr/pubsw/lib/ispell without the trailing .aff or .hash part.)

ispell can also check files written in TeX, nroff, or HTML; use the -t, -n, and -h options to ispell respectively. (For the most part this means that ispell will just skip over tags and commands.) See the ispell man page for more details.

Files

   Programs: buildhash defmt-c defmt-sh findaffix icombine ijoin ispell
             munchlist sq tryaffix unsq
Other Files: /usr/pubsw/lib/ispell/american.hash
             /usr/pubsw/lib/ispell/americanmed+.hash
             /usr/pubsw/lib/ispell/english.aff
             /usr/pubsw/lib/ispell/english.hash
  Man Pages: buildhash(1) findaffix(1) ispell(1) munchlist(1) sq(1)
             tryaffix(1) unsq(1) english(5) ispell(5)

Accuracy

This information reflects the version of this package that is installed in Stanford's site-wide pubsw software tree. Newer versions of the package may be available from the package source. The contents of this page, including the source URL if applicable, are generally only reviewed when the package is upgraded and therefore may not accurately reflect the current version of the package.