2 GNU Aspell 0.60 Custom English Dictionary Package
5 Kevin Atkinson <kevina at gnu org>
6 Copyright Terms: Copyrighted (see the file Copyright for the exact terms)
7 Wordlist URL: http://wordlist.aspell.net/
9 Created with http://app.aspell.net/create with the following paramaters:
12 This is a Custom English dictionary for Aspell. It requires Aspell
13 version 0.60 or better.
15 If Aspell is installed and aspell and prezip-bin are all
16 in the path first do a:
20 Which should output something like:
22 Finding Dictionary file location ... /usr/local/lib/aspell
23 Finding Data file location ... /usr/local/share/aspell
24 Testing if an English dictionary is already installed ... yes
26 if it did not something likely went wrong.
28 As this is a custom dictionary it is meant to coexist with the
29 existing English dictionary. If the configure script detects
31 and as such the language data files will
32 not be installed unless the configure script detectes
34 After that build the package with:
36 and then optionally install it with
39 If any of the above mentioned programs are not in your path than the
40 variables, ASPELL and/or PREZIP need to be set to the
41 commands (with path) to run the utilities. These variables may be set
42 in the environment before configure is run or specified at the command
43 line using the following syntax
44 ./configure --vars VAR1=VAL1 ...
45 Other useful variables configure recognizes are ASPELL_PARMS.
47 To clean up after the build:
50 To uninstall the files:
53 After the custom dictionary is installed you can use with the "-d" or
54 "--master" option of Aspell. For example:
55 aspell -d en-custom ...
57 If you wish to make this the default dictionary for a particular
58 language you can use use the "add-dict-alias" config option. For
59 example to to make it the default for en_US:
60 echo 'add-dict-alias en_US en-custom' >> `aspell config per-conf-path`
62 If you wish to use this dictionary with a particular program than does
63 not allow you to directly select the dictionary than you can also add
64 the alias to the ASPELL_CONF env. varable, for example:
65 ASPELL_CONF='add-dict-alias en_US en-custom' emacs
67 If you already have an English dictionary installed and do not wish to
68 install this custom dictionary you can simply use the dictionary file
69 (en-custom.rws) directly, for example:
70 aspell -d /<path-to-file>/en-custom.rws
72 ASPELL_CONF='add-dict-alias en_US /<path-to-file>/en-custom.rws' emacs
74 The individual word lists have an extension of ".cwl" and are
75 compressed to save space. To uncompress a word list use
76 "preunzip BASE.cwl" which will uncompress it and rename the file
77 to "BASE.wl". To dump a compressed word list to standard output use
78 "precat BASE.cwl". To uncompress all word lists in the current
79 directory use "preunzip *.cwl". For more help on "preunzip" use
82 If you have any problem with installing or using the word lists please
83 let the Aspell maintainer, Kevin Atkinson, know at kevina@gnu.org.
85 Any additional documentation that came with the original word list can
86 be found in the doc/ directory.