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From: "»Q«" <boxcars@×××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: unabridged english dictionary?
Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2015 15:34:02
Message-Id: 20150609103614.0545d6b4@sepulchrave.remarqs
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] unabridged english dictionary? by James
1 On Mon, 8 Jun 2015 13:25:15 +0000 (UTC)
2 James <wireless@×××××××××××.com> wrote:
3
4 > Also, while we are at it, my seamonkey marks words as mispelled,
5 > but there is not a "spellchecker" function to fix the mistakes,
6 > so what am I missing in seamonkey ( I run lxde, if that matters).
7 > If it's an addon I need, suggests as to the best (most complete)
8 > usa english would be welcome information. An unabridged english
9 > dictionary, even if from the right side of the pond, would be keen
10 > to integrate into seamonkey.
11 >
12 > Q? (if my memory is correct?)
13
14 I've had to move dictionary stuff to the far back burner for now,
15 thanks to too much real life stuff.
16
17 I don't think there exist unabridged spellchecking dictionaries, but
18 it's possible to create a pretty big one. See
19 <http://wordlist.aspell.net/>, the "create a customized wordlist"
20 link. ("Emeried" is in the wordlist for "SCOWL size" >=80. You can
21 check to see what words are in what lists by using the "check if a word
22 is in SCOWL" link.) If you download a Hunspell dictionary, you should
23 just be able to unzip it (both the .aff and .dic files)
24 into /usr/share/hunspell -- that should make it available system-wide.
25
26 How to get SeaMonkey to use a new dictionary, I'm not certain.
27 With Firefox, you right-click in a text box and choose an option
28 under "Languages". Maybe this extension would help:
29 <https://addons.mozilla.org/seamonkey/addon/dictionary-switcher/>.
30
31 Firefox 39 and some soon-to-be-released SeaMonkey should come with a
32 newer en_US dictionary, per
33 <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1133363>. But I don't
34 think it's possible to use the bundled dictionaries with Gentoo's
35 built-from-source Mozilla packages. Maybe seamonkey-bin would do it.

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[gentoo-user] Re: unabridged english dictionary? James <wireless@×××××××××××.com>