Re: aspell and emacs

[Ehud Karni]

On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 22:43:23 +0000, Neon Absentius <absent@sdf.lonestar.org> 
wrote:
>
> Thank you for your reply. Unfortunately it didn't help me as I was
> looking specifically for help with aspell (and *not* ispell). The
> greek dictionaries for ispell are outdated and I can't make them to
> work with ispell anyway :(. There are greek dictionaries for aspell
> and they work pretty good, so I wanted to use them in emacs.

I work with aspell too (it is called from hspell). The `ispell' is
the emacs package, not the external program.

You have to add:
    (setq ispell-program-name "aspell")
and everything will be OK (I hope).

> I tried the solution you propose and it didn't work. The name of the
> greek dictionary is "el" so when I tried your solution when I try to
> spell check a buffer I get
>
>
>   Starting new Ispell process...
>   ispell-init-process: Error: The file "/usr/lib/aspell/el" is not in
>   the proper format.
>
> Now the funny thing is that after that if I evaluate
>
>      (setq ispell-dictionary "american")
>      (ispell-change-dictionary "american")
>      (set-default 'ispell-local-dictionary "american")
>
> and try to ispell a buffer I get a very similar message
>
>   Starting new Ispell process...
>   ispell-init-process: Error: The file
>   "/usr/lib/aspell/english-med-only" is not in the proper format.
>
> However if, instead, I use the menu and select the default dictionary
> everything works just fine. When I do the same with the "el"
> dictionary, ie if I set it to be the default and then select "default"
> from the menu, I get an other error message
>
>   ispell-process-line: Ispell misalignment: word `Faut' point 722;
>   probably incompatible versions
>
> Probably I am doing something stupid.

It seems to me you work with the `ispell' program with the `aspell'
dictionaries.

ehud.


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