NAME
Enchant - a spellchecker SYNOPSIS
enchant [-a] [-l] [-L] [-v] DESCRIPTION
Enchant is an ispell-compatible spellchecker. OPTIONS
-a List alternatives.
-l List only the misspellings.
-L Include the line number in the output.
-v Prints the program's version. ENCHANT ORDERING FILE
Enchant has a global and a per-user ordering file named enchant.order‐ ing. It lets the user specify which spelling backend to use for indi‐ vidual languages in the case when you care which backend gets used. The
global file is located in $(datadir)/enchant and the per-user file is
located in ~/.enchant. The per-user file takes precedence, if found.
The ordering file takes the form languagetag:
spelling backends>. I am currently aware of the following backends: aspell, myspell, ispell, uspell, hspell, voikko, and zemberek. '*' is used to mean "use this ordering for all languages, unless instructed otherwise." For example: *:aspell,myspell,ispell en:aspell,myspell,ispell enUK:myspell,aspell,ispell fr:myspell,ispell:aspell DIRECTORIES IMPORTANT TO ENCHANT Unless configured otherwise, Enchant's Myspell, Ispell, and Uspell backends will look for dictionaries in directories specific to Enchant, and will not use your system-wide installed dictionaries. This is for pragmatic reasons since many distributions install these dictionaries into different locations. Like the enchant.ordering file described above, Enchant looks in the
global directory for these dictionaries and a per-user directory. The
per-user directory takes precedence if it is found. Enchant looks for
Myspell dictionaries in $(datadir)/enchant/myspell and ~/.enchant/myspell. Enchant looks for Ispell dictionaries in
$(datadir)/enchant/ispell and ~/.enchant/ispell. Enchant looks for
Uspell dictionaries in $(datadir)/enchant/uspell and ~/.enchant/uspell.
Packagers and users may wish to make symbolic links to the system-wide
dictionary directories. Or, preferably, use the with-myspell-dir,
with-ispell-dir, and with-uspell-dir 'configure' arguments. MORE INFORMATION http://www.abisource.com/enchant/ SEE ALSO aspell(1), ispell(1), AUTHOR Dom Lachowicz WEB: http://www.abisource.com/enchant/ MAIL: domlachowicz@gmail.com enchant July 2006 ENCHANT(1)