Re: About multiple spelling in Emacs

[Colin Baxter]

Hello Dieter
>>>>> H Dieter Wilhelm <address@hidden> writes:

    > Hello Colin Colin Baxter <address@hidden> writes:

    >> > But, how? How can I instruct Emacs to use two dictionaries, say
    >> > Italian and English?
    >> 
    >> I use ispell and switch from English to Latin setting a local
    >> variable ispell-local-dictionary: "latin". If the file, however,
    >> has a mixture of English and Latin then I use a defun:
    >> 
    >> #+begin_src elisp (defun my-ispell-latin () "Switch to the Latin
    >> dictionary."  (interactive) ;; Change personal dict - 1st line
    >> personal dict must match language (latin) (setq
    >> ispell-personal-dictionary "~/.emacs-files/dicts/latin.pws")
    >> (ispell-change-dictionary "latin")) #+end_src

    > FYI: I'm using the very same Ispell commands but I've installed
    > Aspell and have the impression, that Emacs or Aspell - don't know
    > - is changing automatically the personal dictionary when using
    > ispell-change dictionary...

    >> To change back I use another defun for the next language, written
    >> in exactly the same way. Ok, I know, my method is crude, sort of
    >> cargo cult programming, but it works for me.

    > I think the above is working for larger language blocks but is not
    > so good for interspersed texts in another language.

    > As Eli mentioned already multiple language checking should work
    > with Hunspell under Emacs.  I didn't yet convert to Hunspell but
    > maybe the following link will help you to set it up:

    > 
https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/21378/spell-check-with-multiple-dictionaries

Thanks for your suggestion. There is another reason why I prefer ispell,
which I didn't mention. I'm using aspell, which, as you know, works
seamlessly with ispell, to compile a dictionary of specialist terms, and
I don't want to change software mid-project. But thanks again - I didn't
know of the link.

Best wishes,

Colin.


Colin Baxter
URL: http://www.Colin-Baxter.com