Re: Trying to get aspell to do it my way

On Sat, 13 Mar 2010, David Epstein wrote:

>
> I'm not sure what effect en_US-w_accents has. I would appreciate
> enlightenment.

It contains the correctly accented version of the words.  By default they 
are not included since it is generally considered acceptable to leave them 
off (especially in things like email).

> Anyway, I thought it was a good idea.
> My aspell command included
> --extra-dicts=en_US-w_accents
> This didn't seem to have any effect.

Did you try checking cafe (with and without the accent, I can never remember 
how to type accents on my keyboard)

> When I choose "a=add" from aspell's list of alternatives, add the word to
> ~/.aspell.temp.
> My aspell command included
> --personal=~/.aspell.temp
> This didn't seem to work.
>
> Use previously constructed word list as an additional source of correctly
> spelled words.
> My aspell command included
> --add-extra-dicts=~/.aspell.temp
> This didn't seem to work
>
> Total command (there were no line breaks in my command)
> aspell  --master=en_US --extra-dicts=en_US-w_accents
> --personal=~/.aspell.temp --add-extra-dicts=~/.aspell.temp -t check
> chapter_3.tex

The add-extra-dicts in unnecessary and might even cause problems since you 
are listing the same dictionary twice.

> System response:
> Error: The file "/opt/local/share/aspell/~/.aspell.temp" can not be opened
> for reading.

It looks like you shell is not expanding the "~", try
"--personal ~/.aspell.temp" (ie with a space)