Hello, I first searched the archives and the only instances of "aspell-import" mentioned are under making Aspell, so I guess it is not a typical problem.
I 've read the documentation and it seems sketchy to me, perhaps my syntax is off. I 'm using Windows XP and have the new 1.3.6.17 native windows lyx and an older Cygwin LyX version and have tested on both. I wanted to make a combined English/French wordlist, give it a personal dictionary filename, use aspell-import to make it a dictionary (.rws?) and use it as the default spell-checking dictionary for LyX. I read how this was automatically done with a list of English and technical/anacronymic words. It seemed to me the method should work for English/French words, though I read something about only Ispell using the extended Ascii character set. However, I am able to use both an English or a French dictionary from the cmd line and it will correct francais with the correct mark under the c in Francais. The url, http://www.uvsoftware.ca/wordjobs.htm#1H0 explains how to extract a list of words from an already compiled/binary dictionary in order to make an updated ordinary/technical wordlist-->dictionary. Only one of the utilities needed, uvhd, is free. But I'm starting with the wordlist from Moby, plus a French wordlist I found on the marketplace, merging them in Xemacs, then saving the file as .aspell.en.pws, which I think is the format for a personal dictionary, and finally converting/aspell-import to Aspell en_us.rws dictionary. I have Perl and Aspell in my Path. So from within the C:\Aspell\dict directory, I tried various combinations to produce an .rws file: perl aspell-import .aspell.en.pws I tried various combinations, letting the output file be a default, specifying the filename output, using a > redirect and so on like typing full pathnames to the executables. I also tried various combination from a Cygwin prompt. Also tried add-extra-dict = fr* in en.multi which failed. I included information about the lang and num at the top of the combined wordlist file created in Xemacs since a doc mentioned Header, but didn't understand this really. There seems to be a hole in my theory and a gap in my practice. :-) In my research I came across a multilingual screenshot which I found interesting. Spell-checking all those languages from keyboard input, an AI challenge! Imagine the complexity of the rules to recurse that doc. http://www.linguatech.co.uk/multi.htm À la prochaine, Stephen _______________________________________________ Aspell-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/aspell-user
