Re: [jed-users] Re: Adding dictionaries in ispell mode

[Peter Sargent <plsarg@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm using the stock ispell.sl utility from the jedmodes distribution. 
Most of the spell-checking I do is on OCR outputs of scanned historical 
documents in various languages, so what I need is to have per-file 
selection of the appropriate dictionary for each document. I had got so 
far as to change
	custom_variable("Ispell_Dictionary", "default");
to
	custom_variable("Ispell_Dictionary", "ask");
in ispell_init.sl. The next step was to use hunspell_add_dictionary
to add the desired dictionaries to the recognized list (also in 
ispell_init.sl). So I had to figure out what arguments to give the 
function. The comments in the file give examples for the ispell program, 
i.e., specifically for ispell_add_dictionary, and I copied those 
arguments verbatim over to hunspell_add_dictionary.  That's where I went 
wrong.  When the ispell utility asked for a dictionary name, everything 
went well if I typed in "default", but if I typed in one of the other 
dictionary names, I got an error such as:
	Can't open affix or dictionary files for dictionary named
	"a-zA-ZÄËÏÖÜäëïöüáéíóú".

In going back to ispell_init.sl to reproduce the problem in order to 
write this post, I finally noticed that while ispell_add_dictionary 
takes 6 arguments, hunspell_add_dictionary takes only 5!  And when I 
removed the 6th argument, everything worked as expected.  Hopefully my 
experience can serve as a caution to other unwary persons who are trying 
to make multiple spell-checking dictionaries available.  In my opinion 
the jed frontends for the various spell checking engines offer greater 
power and flexibility (programmability!) than perhaps any other 
implementation.


On 8/18/25 12:08, Morten Bo Johansen wrote:
> Peter Sargent <plsarg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to add additional dictionaries in ispell mode;
>
> When you say "ispell mode", do you mean the stock ispell.sl utility that
> ships with Jed or another mode from somewhere?
>
> In the former case, you should be able to add this line to your ~/.jedrc
>
>     Ispell_Program_Name = "hunspell -d it_IT,de_DE_frami -a";
>
> and then the ispell utility will use both of these dictionaries when checking
> a word. If it wasn't what you were looking for, then please clarify.
>
>
> Regards,
> Morten
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