ispell for Windows (ASPELL dict' problem)

ispell for Windows (ASPELL dict' problem)

[3246251196ryan]

In order to get ispell to work with Windows/Emacs I am following this Aspell guide:

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/AspellWindows

However, it all of a sudden talk about a:
(setq ispell-personal-dictionary "C:/path/to/your/.ispell")

What is this about?

I have downloaded the two binaries firstly installing the Aspell binary. Then, I have installed aspell-en-0.50-2-3.exe - the EN dict. This produces the following files:

-rw-r--r-- 1 dix9yok Administrators      85 Dec 21  2002 american-w-accents.alias
-rw-r--r-- 1 dix9yok Administrators      75 Dec 21  2002 american.alias
-rw-r--r-- 1 dix9yok Administrators      85 Dec 21  2002 british-w-accents.alias
-rw-r--r-- 1 dix9yok Administrators      75 Dec 21  2002 british.alias
-rw-r--r-- 1 dix9yok Administrators      85 Dec 21  2002 canadian-w-accents.alias
-rw-r--r-- 1 dix9yok Administrators      75 Dec 21  2002 canadian.alias
-rw-r--r-- 1 dix9yok Administrators 4045824 Dec 21  2002 en-only.rws
-rw-r--r-- 1 dix9yok Administrators     132 Dec 21  2002 en.multi
-rw-r--r-- 1 dix9yok Administrators  154624 Dec 21  2002 en_CA-only.rws
-rw-r--r-- 1 dix9yok Administrators      94 Dec 21  2002 en_CA-w-accents.multi
-rw-r--r-- 1 dix9yok Administrators     113 Dec 21  2002 en_CA.multi
-rw-r--r-- 1 dix9yok Administrators  154624 Dec 21  2002 en_GB-only.rws
-rw-r--r-- 1 dix9yok Administrators      94 Dec 21  2002 en_GB-w-accents.multi
-rw-r--r-- 1 dix9yok Administrators     113 Dec 21  2002 en_GB.multi
-rw-r--r-- 1 dix9yok Administrators  142336 Dec 21  2002 en_US-only.rws
-rw-r--r-- 1 dix9yok Administrators      94 Dec 21  2002 en_US-w-accents.multi
-rw-r--r-- 1 dix9yok Administrators     113 Dec 21  2002 en_US.multi
-rw-r--r-- 1 dix9yok Administrators      72 Dec 21  2002 english.alias

I have tried:
(setq ispell-personal-dictionary "C:/Program Files (x86)/Aspell/dict/en_GB.multi")

etc but I get the error message:

ispell-init-process: Error: The file "C:/Program Files (x86)/Aspell/dict/en_GB.multi" is not in the proper format.

I also cannot find a file called .ispell: In my EMACS dir location:
find . -iname "*spell*"
./etc/images/low-color/spell.xpm
./etc/images/spell.pbm
./etc/images/spell.xpm
./lisp/erc/erc-spelling.el
./lisp/erc/erc-spelling.elc
./lisp/obsolete/spell.el
./lisp/obsolete/spell.elc
./lisp/textmodes/flyspell.el
./lisp/textmodes/flyspell.elc
./lisp/textmodes/ispell.el
./lisp/textmodes/ispell.elc

How to solve this problem?

Thank you.

Re: ispell for Windows (ASPELL dict' problem)

[Óscar Fuentes]

3246251196ryan@gmail.com writes:

> In order to get ispell to work with Windows/Emacs I am following this Aspell guide:
>
> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/AspellWindows
>
> However, it all of a sudden talk about a:
> (setq ispell-personal-dictionary "C:/path/to/your/.ispell")
>
> What is this about?

AFAIK the personal dictionary is where your own words are stored. When
an unknown word is found while spell-checking, you are offered the
candidates for correcting it, but you also have the option of adding the
word to your personal dictionary.

I suppose that the .ispell file is created as soon as you add the first
word to your personal dictionary.

[snip]

> I have tried:
> (setq ispell-personal-dictionary "C:/Program Files (x86)/Aspell/dict/en_GB.multi")

This is wrong because you are trying to use a pre-existing regular
dictionary as your personal dictionary. AFAIK the regular dictionaries
are on a read-only format.

[snip]

Re: ispell for Windows (ASPELL dict' problem)

[3246251196ryan]

On Wednesday, 12 November 2014 15:56:34 UTC, Óscar Fuentes  wrote:
> 3246251196ryan@gmail.com writes:
> 
> > In order to get ispell to work with Windows/Emacs I am following this Aspell guide:
> >
> > http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/AspellWindows
> >
> > However, it all of a sudden talk about a:
> > (setq ispell-personal-dictionary "C:/path/to/your/.ispell")
> >
> > What is this about?
> 
> AFAIK the personal dictionary is where your own words are stored. When
> an unknown word is found while spell-checking, you are offered the
> candidates for correcting it, but you also have the option of adding the
> word to your personal dictionary.
> 
> I suppose that the .ispell file is created as soon as you add the first
> word to your personal dictionary.
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > I have tried:
> > (setq ispell-personal-dictionary "C:/Program Files (x86)/Aspell/dict/en_GB.multi")
> 
> This is wrong because you are trying to use a pre-existing regular
> dictionary as your personal dictionary. AFAIK the regular dictionaries
> are on a read-only format.
> 
> [snip]

Thanks Oscar,

I have simply pointed to an arbitrarily located .ispell (in my .emacs.d) and now ispell/aspell works fine.

Cheers.