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Questions about using/installing/configuring the aspell interactive spell checker. Do not use for spell checking issues using different tools such as ispell.

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Aspell: how to ignore words permanently

I have a tex file that I update regularly and want to check for spelling every time. I would like aspell to remember the mispelled words that I chose to ignore and automatically ignore them in every subsequent spellcheck. The way I do it so far is…
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aspell installs too many languages

I have installed aspell-en and aspell-de. I have expected this will give me the choice between en and de languages. However, the package has installed many versions of en and de languages and now when I want to select my spell language, I get too…
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How can I export my aspell dictionary?

At the moment, I'm working on a big LaTeX document about mathematics and once in a while I do some spell-checking on it. As you can guess, there are a lot of words which are not in a standard dictionary. But I've added them with aspell with a to the…
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Command line method to find repeat-word typos, with line numbers

Updated: Clarify line number requirement, some verbosity reductions From the command line, is there a way to: check a file of English text to find repeat-word typos, along with line numbers where they are found, in order to help correct…
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Use multi language dictionary with aspell

I have a large .tex file that contains two languages and I want to spellcheck it without going crazy. So just spellchecking for one language and pressing "ignore" for words from the other language is not an option. So I read up on aspell and found…
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How to specify multiple .pws and .prepl files in ASPELL_CONF?

I'm trying to configure aspell version 3.1.20 to use the $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/aspell/ directory instead of ~/.aspell. According the the Arch Wiki, one can do so by setting the ASPELL_CONF environment variable to something like "per-conf…
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Where can I find a Welsh word list?

I am looking for a Welsh language word list on my Ubuntu system. apt-file search /usr/share/dict/ doesn't show an option. However aspell-cy does exist. The official description is "This package contains all the required files to add support for the…
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GNU Aspell - how to add a custom word list?

I am writing a large LaTeX document for the first time, and I recently learned how to check my spelling with aspell. My document contains a few names and bits of technical jargon that aspell does not like. For example, I would like to have aspell…
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how to make aspell ignore upper case words (acronyms)?

aspell seems to have some support for filters: http://aspell.net/0.50-doc/man-html/4_Customizing.html#filter but I can't find any way to tell it to ignore words that are all capital letters (typically acronyms), which is rather frustrating because…
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Aspell: how to change home dir globally?

aspell creates following files in my home: .aspell.en.prepl .aspell.en.pws How can I change the location globally, i.e. to $HOME/.cache/aspell ? I need to reference the $HOME environment variables in /etc/aspell.conf. I tried the following, but it…
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filter document via aspell

I need to get a clean txt document and my first approach is to use aspell. The issue is I need it on batch, no interactive mode. Every txt file is piped to aspell and must be returned a new document with the non-dictionnary words deleted. I've found…
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Using find and aspell together

I'm trying to spell check all the *.md files in my current directory but the following command fails: >> find . -maxdepth 1 -name "*.md" | xargs -I {} aspell check {} xargs: aspell: exited with status 255; aborting I'm assuming this is because…
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Drop into an editor from inside aspell

I'm writing my doctoral dissertation using vim and LaTeX, and I spell-check the document using aspell. Sometimes I run across an error that can't suitably be fixed using the built-in spell-check options in aspell. For example the last time I ran…
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Spell checking user's input by aspell, but how to invoke the INTERACTIVE mode in this context?

I have wrote a script which receives a user's sentence, i'd like to pipe the string to aspell and then get the INTERACTIVE screen's suggestions (in case user had some typos). Afterwards the words would be sent back to the script and I'd replace the…
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Where does aspell store my own added words?

Where does aspell store my own added words (with the 'a' option) and how can I manipulate this list? I hope aspell stores this in a separate dictionary, separate from the language dictionary. The background is that I want to review this list on a…
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