Re: Personal dictionaries (TeXworks / Win7)

Am Thu, 19 Jul 2012 15:17:45 -0500 schrieb Dane Powell:

> I am having trouble simply creating a personal dictionary for use with
> TeXworks. I've read numerous posts online indicating that you should be
> able to create a *.dic file in some subdirectory such as
> AppData\Local\MikTex\2.9\TeXworks\0.4\dictionaries or
> AppData\Roaming\MikTex\2.9\hunspell\dicts, but no matter what permutation
> of those paths I use I can't seem to get TeXworks to recognize it. I've
> also set the TW_DICPATH environment variable to no avail.
> 
> If I manually add words to the end of the en_US dictionary in C:\Program
> Files\MikTex\hunspell\dicts, they get picked up just fine. But obviously
> editing that dictionary isn't a good long-term solution, since it's likely
> to get clobbered during upgrades.
> 
> Can anyone offer some advice?

I could add a dictionary by going to "help -> settings and 
ressources", clicking on the path mentioned there, going to the 
subfolder "dictionaries" and then copying a .dic *and* a .aff-file 
in this folder.

I extracted the two dictionary files from an open office dictionary.

See also http://code.google.com/p/texworks/wiki/SpellingDictionaries


-- 
Ulrike Fischer 


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