Re: [Aspell-user] from a new user

[David Epstein]

Kevin Atkinson wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 23 Feb 2010, David Epstein wrote:
>> Q1. Is it possible to have a file of incorrectly spelled words, that 
>> overrides the dictionary being used by aspell? For example, when using 
>> British English, I might want to outlaw "analyze". Alternatively, I might 
>> want to outlaw "analyse". How should I do this?
> 
> Unfortunately, No.  But keep in mind there are two British English
> variants 
> to chose from, use "aspell --dump dicts" to get a list of installed dict.
> ...
>> Am I allowed to use several of them simultaneously in the same call to 
>> aspell?
> 
> Yes.  By using the "extra-dicts" option, but only one of them can serve as 
> the personal dictionary (ie, the one words are added to).
> 
I got a list starting like this
en
en-variant_0
...

but that didn't give me the information I need. I managed to find various
files with suffixes like .multi and .rws, but these were practically empty.
(This task was non-trivial and needed some luck, so maybe I haven't found
the correct locations of the correct files.) According to Unix "file"
command, the .multi files were ascii and the .rws files were "data", so
presumably binary. But these files were much too small to give the spelling
of a reasonable list of English words. I would expect such a file to be
somewhere between 50K and 1M in length. To be more specific, and to relate
the question to my original question, I want to know what file aspell is
accessing that tells it that "analyze" is OK, but not "analyse". More, I
want to find an analogous file that would lead aspell to accept "analyse"
but not "analyze". More, I want to know how to tell aspell to use one of
these dictionaries and not the other.

Kevin said "there are two British English variants
to chose from, use "aspell --dump dicts" to get a list of installed dict."
But when I performed this command, I didn't get two variants, the list had
something like 15 entries, each with "en" as part of the name. What are all
these variants? Are they described in any associated documentation? How can
I see the list of words that they are associated with?

Thanks
David
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