function for spell checking of strings

[Stefan Schlee <stefan_schlee@yahoo.com>]

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Hello!

The question I'd like to ask, seems to be somewhere between the topics covered by "emacs-devel@gnu.org" and "help-gnu-evams@gnu.org"

I have already posted it on "help-gnu-evams@gnu.org"  but did not get a working answer.  Sorry for cross-posting, but some of you might not be watching "help-gnu-evams@gnu.org".

Here is the question:

I want to look up a string in one of the dictionaries accessible from emacs.  The string is not contained in a buffer (in which case I would use `ispell-word´) but is only referred to by a variable in my elisp code.  There used to be a function 'spell-string' but the spell-packages is obsoleted and the build in help system refers me to 'ispell'.  But I cannot find an equivalent function in the 'ispell' package.  Does any one know of a solution?

I am using Emacs version 23.2.1.

Thank you in advance, Stefan

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