aspell with different dictionaries

aspell with different dictionaries

[Nathan Sidoli]

Hello All --

I would like to set up key bindings to spell check words and regions
in a secondary dictionary and then switch back to the primary
dictionary.

Does anyone have their .emacs file set up to do this.


Thanks,
Nathan

Re: aspell with different dictionaries

[Björn Lindström]

nathan.sidoli@utoronto.ca (Nathan Sidoli) writes:

> I would like to set up key bindings to spell check words and regions
> in a secondary dictionary and then switch back to the primary
> dictionary.

Something like this?

(global-set-key "\C-csb" (lambda () (interactive)
                           (ispell-change-dictionary "british")))
(global-set-key "\C-css" (lambda () (interactive)
                           (ispell-change-dictionary "svenska")))

Re: aspell with different dictionaries

[Nathan Sidoli]

> (global-set-key "\C-csb" (lambda () (interactive)
>                            (ispell-change-dictionary "british")))
> (global-set-key "\C-css" (lambda () (interactive)
>                            (ispell-change-dictionary "svenska")))


Thanks, this is helpful and I will use it for now but ideally I would
like a situation where I chose my dictionary on each spellcheck. For
example, I could use

C-cer 

to check a region in English or

C-cdw 

to check a work in German, etc. Does anyone out there know some lisp
to do this?

Thanks,
Nathan

Re: aspell with different dictionaries

[Kevin Rodgers]

Nathan Sidoli wrote:
 >>(global-set-key "\C-csb" (lambda () (interactive)
 >>                           (ispell-change-dictionary "british")))
 >>(global-set-key "\C-css" (lambda () (interactive)
 >>                           (ispell-change-dictionary "svenska")))
 >
 > Thanks, this is helpful and I will use it for now but ideally I would
 > like a situation where I chose my dictionary on each spellcheck. For
 > example, I could use
 >
 > C-cer
 >
 > to check a region in English or
 >
 > C-cdw
 >
 > to check a work in German, etc. Does anyone out there know some lisp
 > to do this?

Isn't it obvious?

(global-set-key "\C-cer" (lambda () (interactive)
                            (ispell-change-dictionary "english")
                            (ispell-region (region-beginning) (region-end)))

(global-set-key "\C-cdw" (lambda () (interactive)
                            (ispell-change-dictionary "deutsch")
                            (ispell-word)))

-- 
Kevin Rodgers

Re: aspell with different dictionaries

[Frederik Fouvry]

,-- One day, you wrote:
|
| Thanks, this is helpful and I will use it for now but ideally I would
| like a situation where I chose my dictionary on each spellcheck. For
| example, I could use
| 
| C-cer 
| 
| to check a region in English or
| 
| C-cdw 
| 
| to check a work in German, etc. Does anyone out there know some lisp
| to do this?

Note that ispell may function better than aspell for other language
than English: aspell's suggestion algorithm is developed for English
(only), while ispell's is more general.

Frederik Fouvry

Re: aspell with different dictionaries

[Kevin Atkinson]

Frederik Fouvry <fouvry@coli.uni-saarland.de> wrote in message news:<5foekzxv3y.fsf@cc.at.coli.uni-sb.de>...

> Note that ispell may function better than aspell for other language
> than English: aspell's suggestion algorithm is developed for English
> (only), while ispell's is more general.

Hello, I am the Aspell author.

This statement is false.  Aspell's suggestion algorithm was originally
adopted for English, but it has since been expanded to work well with
other languages.  In fact, with out any additional tuning Aspell will
do a _better_ job than Ispell in all cases.

Have a good day and please stop spreading false information about
Aspell.

Re: aspell with different dictionaries

[Carsten Weinberg]

Kevin Atkinson wrote:

>Hello, I am the Aspell author.
>
>This statement is false.  Aspell's suggestion algorithm was originally
>adopted for English, but it has since been expanded to work well with
>other languages.  In fact, with out any additional tuning Aspell will
>do a _better_ job than Ispell in all cases.
>
>Have a good day and please stop spreading false information about
>Aspell.
>  
>

Kevin thanks a lot for the great program!

aspell is much better than ispell or anything else!

-CWeinberg