Re: Using aspell programmatically

On Tue, 4 May 2010, John P. Hartmann wrote:

> I wish to use aspell in one of my own applications.  I can loop up words and
> get spelling corrections through the C API, but word list management has me
> stumped.
>
> I have (from a mainframe application) list of words that should be
> considered valid in the context of specific files/applications/users.
>
> So I tried to generate a personal word list:
>
> j /home/john/aspell: aspell create personal < john.add
> Sorry "create/merge personal" is currently unimplemented.

You can easily create one manually.  The personal dict. is just a wordlist 
with a header line.  You probably want to use:
   personal_ws-1.1 en 0
as the header.

> j /home/john/aspell: aspell create master < john.add
> Error: The language "en_GB" is not known. This is probably because: the file
> "/usr/local/lib/aspell-0.60/en_GB.dat" can not be opened for reading.

You need to provide a dictionary name.  Also the language needs to be 
specified as "en".  en_GB is technical not a language but a dictionary 
name, but it works when specified as a language in most cases (excluding 
this one of course).

> My configuration file:
>
> dict-dir /usr/lib/aspell-0.60
> lang en_GB
> home-dir ~/aspell
> personal pwl
>
> The last two lines are out of desperation more than knowledge.

Get rid of them, they are unnecessary and the last one is nonsense.