spell(1) [plan9 man page]
SPELL(1) General Commands Manual SPELL(1) NAME
spell, sprog - find spelling errors SYNOPSIS
spell [ options ] ... [ file ] ... sprog [ options ] [ -f file ] DESCRIPTION
Spell looks up words from the named files (standard input default) in a spelling list and places possible misspellings--words not sanc- tioned there--on the standard output. Spell ignores constructs of troff(1) and its standard preprocessors. It understands these options: -a Label each line of output with its address in the input, in the notation of acme(1) and sam(1). -b Check British spelling. -v Print all words not literally in the spelling list, with derivations. -x Print, marked with every stem as it is looked up in the spelling list, along with its affix classes. As a matter of policy, spell does not admit multiple spellings of the same word. Variants that follow general rules are preferred over those that don't, even when the unruly spelling is more common. Thus, in American usage, `modelled', `sizeable', and `judgment' are rejected in favor of `modeled', `sizable', and `judgement'. Agglutinated variants are shunned: `crewmember' and `backyard' cede to `crew member' and `back yard' (noun) or `back-yard' (adjective). FILES
/sys/lib/amspell American spelling list /sys/lib/brspell British spelling list /bin/aux/sprog The actual spelling checker. It expects one word per line on standard input, and takes the same arguments as spell. SOURCE
/rc/bin/spell the script /sys/src/cmd/spell source for sprog SEE ALSO
deroff(1) BUGS
The heuristics of deroff(1) used to excise formatting information are imperfect. The spelling list's coverage is uneven; in particular biology, medicine, and chemistry, and perforce proper names, not to mention languages other than English, are covered very lightly. SPELL(1)
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spell(1) User Commands spell(1) NAME
spell, hashmake, spellin, hashcheck - report spelling errors SYNOPSIS
spell [-bilvx] [+ local_file] [file] ... /usr/lib/spell/hashmake /usr/lib/spell/spellin n /usr/lib/spell/hashcheck spelling_list DESCRIPTION
The spell command collects words from the named files and looks them up in a spelling list. Words that neither occur among nor are deriv- able (by applying certain inflections, prefixes, or suffixes) from words in the spelling list are written to the standard output. If there are no file arguments, words to check are collected from the standard input. spell ignores most troff(1), tbl(1), and eqn(1) con- structs. Copies of all output words are accumulated in the history file (spellhist), and a stop list filters out misspellings (for example, their=thy-y+ier) that would otherwise pass. By default, spell (like deroff(1)) follows chains of included files (.so and .nx troff(1) requests), unless the names of such included files begin with /usr/lib. The standard spelling list is based on many sources, and while more haphazard than an ordinary dictionary, is also more effective in respect to proper names and popular technical words. Coverage of the specialized vocabularies of biology, medicine and chemistry is light. Three programs help maintain and check the hash lists used by spell: hashmake Reads a list of words from the standard input and writes the corresponding nine-digit hash code on the standard output. spellin Reads n hash codes from the standard input and writes a compressed spelling list on the standard output. hashcheck Reads a compressed spelling_list and recreates the nine-digit hash codes for all the words in it. It writes these codes on the standard output. OPTIONS
The following options are supported: -b Check British spelling. Besides preferring centre, colour, programme, speciality, travelled, and so forth, this option insists upon -ise in words like standardise. -i Cause deroff(1) to ignore .so and .nx commands. If deroff(1) is not present on the system, then this option is ignored. -l Follow the chains of all included files. -v Print all words not literally in the spelling list, as well as plausible derivations from the words in the spelling list. -x Print every plausible stem, one per line, with = preceding each word. +local_file Specify a set of words that are correct spellings (in addition to spell's own spelling list) for each job. local_file is the name of a user-provided file that contains a sorted list of words, one per line. Words found in local_file are removed from spell's output. Use sort(1) to order local_file in ASCII collating sequence. If this ordering is not followed, some entries in local_file might be ignored. OPERANDS
The following operands are supported: file A path name of a text file to check for spelling errors. If no files are named, words are collected from the standard input. ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables that affect the execution of spell: LC_CTYPE, LC_MESSAGES, and NLSPATH. EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned: 0 Successful completion. >0 An error occurred. FILES
D_SPELL=/usr/lib/spell/hlist[ab] hashed spelling lists, American & British S_SPELL=/usr/lib/spell/hstop hashed stop list H_SPELL=/var/adm/spellhist history file /usr/share/lib/dict/words master dictionary ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWesu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
deroff(1), eqn(1), sort(1), tbl(1), troff(1), attributes(5), environ(5) NOTES
spell works only on English words defined in the U.S. ASCII codeset. Because copies of all output are accumulated in the spellhist file, spellhist might grow quite large and require purging. BUGS
The spelling list's coverage is uneven. New installations might wish to monitor the output for several months to gather local additions. British spelling was done by an American. SunOS 5.11 23 spell(1)