ispell-dictionary with aspell

ispell-dictionary with aspell

[Sebastian Luque]

Hi,

Even though I have the following:

(setq ispell-program-name "aspell"
      ispell-dictionary "english")


when I do M-$ to check some spelling, I get the following backtrace:


Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Error: No word lists can be found for the language \"us\".")
  signal(error ("Error: No word lists can be found for the language \"us\"."))
  error("%s" "Error: No word lists can be found for the language \"us\".")
  ispell-init-process()
  ispell-buffer-local-words()
  ispell-accept-buffer-local-defs()
  ispell-word(nil nil nil)
  call-interactively(ispell-word)


and the value of ispell-dictionary after that gets set to nil.

However, if I do M-x ispell-change-dictionary RET english RET, then
there's no problem.

Has anybody else seen this or have some pointers on what's going on?

Thanks in advance,

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Re: ispell-dictionary with aspell

[netcasper]

try
(setq-default ispell-dictionary "english")

Re: ispell-dictionary with aspell

[Sebastian Luque]

"netcasper@gmail.com" <netcasper@gmail.com> wrote:

> try
> (setq-default ispell-dictionary "english")

Thanks, but it didn't help.  Using (ispell-change-dictionary "english") in
~/.emacs didn't help either.

hmm...will have to get used to M-x ispell-change-dictionary at the start
of sessions.


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Re: ispell-dictionary with aspell

[Liang Wang]

I just checked my .emacs file.

(setq ispell-prgoram-name "aspell")
(set-default 'ispell-local-dictioniary "american")

Add French dictionary to aspell (was: ispell-dictionary with aspell)

[Marc Girod]

Hello,

Only related to this thread...
I am using aspell through ispell under emacs.
I wanted to add a French dictionary, and downloaded
aspell-fr-0.50-3.tar.bz2 from http://aspell.net/ (in fact from
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/aspell/dict/fr/).

I tried to install it but found it clashed with the version of aspell
I used:

$ aspell --version
@(#) International Ispell Version 3.1.20 (but really Aspell .33.7.1 alpha)
$ 

I thus downloaded aspell-0.61-20050123.tar.gz and installed it, but
couldn't use it at least under emacs...

I now found that the latest version is supposed to be
aspell-0.60.3.tar.gz

Should this one work as a drop-in replacement for what I had?

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Re: ispell-dictionary with aspell

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 19.09.2005 um 09:09 schrieb Liang Wang:

> (set-default 'ispell-local-dictioniary "american")
>

This seems to make a difference to me! Interestingly aspell works with 
the 'german' dictionary, but not with 'de' or 'de_DE'. Even more 
interestingly I can use a non-existent dictionary 'german8' -- but 
different from ispell aspell still does not recognize words with 
diacritics in them.

I think aspell needs some more decades of development until it reaches 
the state ispell had 15 years ago ...

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Re: Add French dictionary to aspell (was: ispell-dictionary with aspell)

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 19.09.2005 um 10:45 schrieb Marc Girod:

> $ aspell --version
> @(#) International Ispell Version 3.1.20 (but really Aspell .33.7.1 
> alpha)
>

You do need a modern version of the aspell binary! Recently this 
version is around:

	@(#) International Ispell Version 3.1.20 (but really Aspell 0.60.2)

This one will work with your modern French dictionary! The source is 
somewhere on the Aspell site.


If you manage to make aspell accept and recognize words with 
diacritics: could you describe us how you achieved this?

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Re: Add French dictionary to aspell (was: ispell-dictionary with aspell)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Marc Girod <girod@shire.ntc.nokia.com>
> Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 08:45:20 GMT
> 
> I thus downloaded aspell-0.61-20050123.tar.gz and installed it, but
> couldn't use it at least under emacs...
> 
> I now found that the latest version is supposed to be
> aspell-0.60.3.tar.gz

What version of Emacs is that?

Re: Add French dictionary to aspell (was: ispell-dictionary with aspell)

[Marc Girod]

>>>>> "PD" == Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> writes:

PD> This one will work with your modern French dictionary! The source
PD> is somewhere on the Aspell site.

It worked indeed, without a glitch.

PD> If you manage to make aspell accept and recognize words with
PD> diacritics: could you describe us how you achieved this?

In fact, not even this one.
Yes, it seems to work for me... What is your problem?
I do have accented words, and ispell/aspell will accept them -- or
propose corrections as for others.
It also proposes both accented and non accented words.
Everything looks fine.

I use iso-latin-1-unix as coding system in the current buffer.

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Re: Add French dictionary to aspell (was: ispell-dictionary with aspell)

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 19.09.2005 um 21:49 schrieb Marc Girod:

> What is your problem?
> I do have accented words, and ispell/aspell will accept them -- or
> propose corrections as for others.

In an ISO Latin-9 (ISO 8859-15, the one with €) encoded buffer 
(LaTeX/AUCTeX/flyspell) aspell does not recognize for example "später" 
(later/plus tard). It's two words: "sp" and "ter". The propositions 
contain UTF-8/are UTF-8 encoded (from the dictionary) and incorrectly 
shown in the *Choices* buffer: every byte is displayed in ISO Latin-1 
or such instead of choosing the right glyph for the two or three byte 
UTF-8 sequences.

I have a very simple set-up:

	(setq ispell-dictionary "german8")
;	(setq ispell-program-name "ispell")
	(setq ispell-program-name "aspell")
	(if (string= "aspell" ispell-program-name)
	  (progn
;	    (setq ispell-dictionary "german8")
	    (setq ispell-cmd-args "--norm-form=comp --norm-required 
--run-together")
	    (set-default 'ispell-local-dictionary "german8")
	    (message "Alles für «a»spell")
	    )
;	    (setq ispell-dictionary "german8")
	    (message "Alles für »i«spell")
	)
	(add-hook 'LaTeX-mode-hook (function (lambda () (setq 
ispell-extra-args '("-t")))))

The line with ispell-cmd-args does not work at all. If I use ispell 
instead of aspell everything's fine!

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Re: Add French dictionary to aspell (was: ispell-dictionary with aspell)

[Marc Girod]

>>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

Eli> What version of Emacs is that?

21.2

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Re: Add French dictionary to aspell

[Marc Girod]

>>>>> "PD" == Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> writes:

PD> every byte is displayed in ISO Latin-1 or such instead of choosing
PD> the right glyph for the two or three byte UTF-8 sequences.

Er... but do I correctly understand that the problem is only with
other encodings that iso-latin-1?
That with iso-latin-1, everything works fine?

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Re: Add French dictionary to aspell

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 19.09.2005 um 22:47 schrieb Marc Girod:

> but do I correctly understand that the problem is only with
> other encodings that iso-latin-1?
> That with iso-latin-1, everything works fine?
>

No, there is no difference in aspell's behaviour: it fails in both.

GNU Emacs 22.0.50 and 23.0.0. Both again. Plus Carbon Emacsen 22.0.50.

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