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.ordering. It lets the user
specify which spelling backend to use for individual 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
language_tag:<comma-separated list of spelling backends>. I
am currently aware of the following backends: aspell, myspell,
ispell, uspell, hspell. The comma-separated list may not include
spaces. '*' is used to mean "use this ordering for all languages,
unless instructed otherwise." For example:
*:aspell,myspell,ispell
en:aspell,myspell,ispell
en_UK: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: cinamod@hotmail.com