Re: Using aspell programmatically

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

> On 4 May 2010 13:51, Kevin Atkinson <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Is there a sample of such a file anywhere?
>
>>
>> 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).
>>
>>
> j /home/john/aspell: aspell --lang=en create master
> ~/aspell/.aspell.en_GB.per <john.add
> Error: The language "en" is not known. This is probably because: the file
> "/usr/local/lib/aspell-0.60/en.dat" can not be opened for reading.

Did you install the English dictionary?  You need to do that, even if you 
don't plan to use it as Aspell needs the language data files.

Also you need to specify the name of the dictionary you want to create. 
Be sure to prefix it with a "./" otherwise Aspell will try to create it in 
"/usr/local/lib/aspell-0.60/.

> I'm clearly not doing it right.
>
> On the programmatic front, I can add words to the dictionary by
> aspell_speller_add_to_personal.  How do I remove a word from the
> dictionary?

Sorry, this is currently unsupported.