sgml-spell-checker(1) [debian man page]
sgml-spell-checker(1) SGML sgml-spell-checker(1) NAME
sgml-spell-checker - SGML spell checker SYNOPSIS
nsgmls -l yourdoc.sgml | sgml-spell-checker [option] ... DESCRIPTION
sgml-spell-checker is a tool that you can use to automatically spell-check your SGML documents. One of the advantages of this tool over some other SGML-aware spell checkers is that it scans your documents in the form in which the SGML parser actually sees it, which means it is not line-based, system entities are resolved, marked sections are treated appropriately, etc. Also, this tool can be made aware of particular DTDs, in the sense that it knows not to spell-check the content of elements that do not represent human-language text, such as <programlisting> in DocBook. An exclusion list for the DocBook DTD is included, others can be added trivially. The input to sgml-spell-checker is the text representation of your SGML document's Element Structure Information Set as generated by nsgmls (from SP or OpenSP; sometimes installed under the name onsgmls). In other words, you need to pipe the output of nsgmls into sgml-spell- checker as shown in the synopsis. Provide to nsgmls the options you need, such as -c to search more catalogs, -i to include a marked sec- tion, or more source files. Do not forget the -l option, or you won't get any file or line references for the misspellings. The second part of the pipe takes a couple of options; see below. Note that if the language of the document does not match your system's locale settings, you need to use the --language option. The output of sgml-spell-checker is a list of the words that are misspelled (in the opinion of aspell), together with file name and line number. Note that the line number designates where the element that contains the word started, not where the word actually is. So most likely you will have to search a few lines below the indicated location. OPTIONS
--debug Debug mode. Generates lots of output not of interest to the normal user. --language=language Sets the language of the document. (The format depends on the aspell installation, but something like en or en_US should work.) By default the language is taken from the system locale settings. --suggestions Shows correction suggestions for misspelled words. --dictionary=file Uses an additional aspell dictionary file. This option may be used multiple times. --dtd=dtd Uses the exclusion list for the specified DTD (e.g., docbook). --help Shows a brief help, then exits. EXAMPLES
nsgmls -l -D . mydoc.sgml | sgml-spell-checker --language=en --dtd=docbook --dictionary=mydict1.aspell --dictionary=mydict2.aspell (You can enter this command all on one line without the backslashes, or on several lines with the backslashes.) NOTES
Read the aspell documentation about how to set up the appropriate dictionaries. In case you're having trouble interpreting the aspell doc- umentation, here's how to make an aspell dictionary file from a flat word list: rm -f mydict1.aspell # aspell won't overwrite existing files aspell --language-tag=xx create master ./mydict1.aspell < mywordlist.txt Watch the slashes. aspell likes to see a slash in the name or it will search some default location. BUGS
This program should be able to identify the language from the document (e.g., <book lang="de">), but aspell doesn't handle changing the language on the fly. AUTHOR
Peter Eisentraut (peter_e@gmx.net) SGML spell checker 2004-09-19 sgml-spell-checker(1)
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ASPELL(1) Aspell Abbreviated User's Manual ASPELL(1) NAME
aspell - interactive spell checker SYNOPSIS
aspell [options] <command> DESCRIPTION
aspell is a utility program that connects to the Aspell library so that it can function as an ispell -a replacement, as an independent spell checker, as a test utility to test out Aspell library features, and as a utility for managing dictionaries used by the library. The Aspell library contains an interface allowing other programs direct access to its functions and therefore reducing the complex task of spell checking to simple library calls. The default library does not contain dictionary word lists. To add language dictionaries, please check your distro first for modified dictionaries, otherwise look here for base language dictionaries <http://aspell.net>. The following information describes the commands and options used by the Aspell Utility. This manual page is maintained separately from the official documentation so it may be out of date or incomplete. The official documenta- tion is maintained as a Texinfo manual. See the `aspell' entry in info for more complete documentation. COMMANDS
<command> is one of: usage, -? Send a brief Aspell Utility usage message to standard output. This is a short summary listing more common spell-check commands and options. help Send a detailed Aspell Utility help message to standard output. This is a complete list showing all commands, options, filters and dictionaries. version, -v Print version number of Aspell Library and Utility to standard output. check <file>, -c <file> Spell-check a single file. pipe, -a Run Aspell in ispell -a compatibility mode. list Produce a list of misspelled words from standard input. [dump] config Dump all current configuration options to standard output. config <key> Send the current value of <key> to standard output. soundslike Output the soundslike equivalent of each word entered. munch Generate possible root words and affixes from an input list of words. expand [1-4] Expands the affix flags of each affix compressed word entered. clean [strict] Cleans an input word list so that every line is a valid word. munch-list [simple] [single|multi] [keep] Reduce the size of a word list via affix compression. conv <from> <to> [<norm-form>] Converts <from> one encoding <to> another. norm (<norm-map>|<from> <norm-map> <to>) [<norm-form>] Perform Unicode normalization. [dump] dicts|filters|modes Lists available dictionaries, filters, or modes. dump|create|merge master|personal|repl <wordlist> dump, create, or merge a master, personal, or replacement word list. DICTIONARY OPTIONS
The following options may be used to control which dictionaries to use and how they behave. --master=<name>, -d <name> Base name of the dictionary to use. If this option is specified then Aspell will either use this dictionary or die. --dict-dir=<directory> Location of the main dictionary word list. --lang=<string>, -l <string> Language to use. It follows the same format of the LANG environmental variable on most systems. It consists of the two letter ISO 639 language code and an optional two letter ISO 3166 country code after a dash or underscore. The default value is based on the value of the LC_MESSAGES locale. --size=<string> The preferred size of the dictionary word list. This consists of a two char digit code describing the size of the list, with typi- cal values of: 10=tiny, 20=really small, 30=small, 40=med-small, 50=med, 60=med-large, 70=large, 80=huge, 90=insane. --variety=<string> Any extra information to distinguish this variety of dictionary from other dictionaries which may have the same lang and size. --jargon=<string> Please use the variety option since it replaces jargon as a better choice. jargon will be removed in the future. --word-list-path=<list of directories> Search path for word list information files. --personal=<file>, -p <file> Personal word list file name. --repl=<file> Replacements list file name. --extra-dicts=<list> Extra dictionaries to use. --ignore-accents This option is not yet implemented. CHECKER OPTIONS
These options control the behavior of Aspell when checking documents. --ignore=<integer>, -W <integer> Ignore words <= <integer> characters in length. --ignore-case, --dont-ignore-case Ignore case when checking words. --ignore-repl, --dont-ignore-repl Ignore commands to store replacement pairs. --save-repl, --dont-save-repl Save the replacement word list on save all. --sug-mode=<mode> Suggestion <mode> = ultra|fast|normal|bad-spellers FILTER OPTIONS
These options modify the behavior of the various filters. --add-filter=<list>, --rem-filter=<list> Add or remove a filter. --add-filter-path=<paths>, --rem-filter-path=<paths> Add or remove paths searched for filters. --mode=<string>, -e, -H, -t, -n Sets the filter mode. Mode is one of none, url, email, html, tex or nroff. The alternative shortcut options are '-e' for email, '-H' for Html/Sgml, '-t' for Tex or '-n' for Nroff. --encoding=<string> encoding the document is expected to be in. The default depends on the current locale. --add-email-quote=<list>, --rem-email-quote=<list> Add or Remove a list of email quote characters. --email-margin=<integer> Number of chars that can appear before the quote char. --add-html-check=<list>, --rem-html-check=<list> Add or remove a list of HTML attributes to always check. For example, look inside alt= tags. --add-html-skip=<list>, --rem-html-skip=<list> Add or remove a list of HTML attributes to always skip while spell checking. --add-sgml-check=<list>, --rem-sgml-check=<list> Add or remove a list of SGML attributes to always check for spelling. --add-sgml-skip=<list>, --rem-sgml-skip=<list> Add or remove a list of SGML attributes to always skip while spell checking. --sgml-extension=<list> SGML file extensions. --tex-check-comments, --dont-tex-check-comments Check TeX comments. --add-tex-command=<list>, --rem-tex-command=<list> Add or Remove a list of TeX commands. RUN-TOGETHER WORD OPTIONS These may be used to control the behavior of run-together words. --run-together, --dont-run-together, -C, -B Consider run-together words valid. --run-together-limit=<integer> Maximum number of words that can be strung together. --run-together-min=<integer> Minimal length of interior words. MISC OPTIONS
Miscellaneous options that don't fall under any other category. --conf=<file name> Main configuration file. This file overrides Aspell's global defaults. --conf-dir=<directory> Location of main configuration file. --data-dir=<directory> Location of language data files. --keyboard=<keyboard> Use this keyboard layout for suggesting possible words. These spelling errors happen if a user accidently presses a key next to the intended correct key. --local-data-dir=<directory> Alternative location of language data files. This directory is searched before data-dir. --home-dir=<directory> Directory Location for personal wordlist files. --per-conf=<file name> Personal configuration file. This file overrides options found in the global config file. ASPELL UTILITY OPTIONS
These options are part of the aspell Utility and work independently of the library. --backup, --dont-backup, -b, -x The aspell utility creates a backup file by making a copy and appending .bak to file name. This only applies when the command is check <file> and the backup file is only created if any spelling modifications take place. --byte-offsets, --dont-byte-offsets Use byte offsets instead of character offsets. --guess, --dont-guess, -m, -P Create missing root/affix combinations not in the dictionary in pipe mode. --keymapping=aspell, --keymapping=ispell The keymapping to use, either aspell for the default mapping or ispell to use the same mapping that the Ispell utility uses. --reverse, --dont-reverse Reverse the order of the suggestions list in pipe mode. --suggest, --dont-suggest Suggest possible replacements in pipe mode. If false, Aspell will simply report the misspelling and make no attempt at suggestions or possible corrections. --time, --dont-time Time the load time and suggest a time in pipe mode. In addition Aspell will try to make sense out of Ispell's command line options so that it can function as a drop in replacement for Ispell. If Aspell is run without any command line options it will display a brief help screen and quit. CONFIGURATION
Aspell can accept options via global or personal configuration files so that you do not need to specify them each time at the command line. The default global configuration file is /etc/aspell.conf or another file specified by option --conf and is checked first. The default per user configuration file ~/.aspell.conf located in the $HOME directory (or another file specified by option --per-conf) is checked next and overrides options set in the global config file. Options specified at either the command line or via an environmental variable override those specified by either configuration file. Each line of the configuration file has the format: option [value] where option is any one of the standard library options above without the leading dashes. For example the following line will set the default language to Swiss German: lang de_CH There may be any number of spaces between the option and the value, however it can only be spaces, i.e. there is no '=' between the option name and the value. Comments may also be included by preceding them with a '#' as anything from a '#' to a newline is ignored. Blank lines are also allowed. The /etc/aspell.conf file is a good example of how to set these options and the Aspell Manual has more detailed info. SEE ALSO
aspell-import(1), prezip-bin(1), run-with-aspell(1), word-list-compress(1) Aspell is fully documented in its Texinfo manual. See the `aspell' entry in info for more complete documentation. SUPPORT
Support for Aspell can be found on the Aspell mailing lists. Instructions for joining the various mailing lists (and an archive of them) can be found off the Aspell home page at <http://aspell.net>. Bug reports should be submitted via the Sourceforge Tracker rather than being posted to the mailing lists. AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Brian Nelson <pyro@debian.org> based on the Aspell User's Manual, Copyright (C) 2002 Kevin Atkinson. Updated Nov 2006 by Jose Da Silva <digital@joescat.com>, and Dec 2006 by Kevin Atkinson <kevina@gnu.org>. GNU
2006-12-10 ASPELL(1)