Undefined dictionary: espanol

Undefined dictionary: espanol

[Diego Alejandro Torres Galindo]

Hello all.

I am trying to install and use the spell checking in emacs, everything
seems fine with the America, British, Italian, and Swedish
dictionaries. But as soon as I try to use the Spanish (espanol)
dictionary I get the message:

"Undefined dictionary: espanol"

Similar messages appear when I try to use different dictionaries such
as Italiano-Tex, etc....

I have look for this problem in internet but so far there is nothing
really useful. A bit of information of my system

GNU Emacs 23.1.1
opensuse 11.2
International Ispell Version 3.3.02 12 Jun 2005

Any help will be appreciated.

Thank you very much.

Diego.

-- 
Diego A. Torres
datorresg@gmail.com

Re: Undefined dictionary: espanol

[Óscar Fuentes]

Diego Alejandro Torres Galindo <datorresg@gmail.com> writes:

> I am trying to install and use the spell checking in emacs, everything
> seems fine with the America, British, Italian, and Swedish
> dictionaries. But as soon as I try to use the Spanish (espanol)
> dictionary I get the message:
>
> "Undefined dictionary: espanol"

There is "espanol" and "espa\361ol" on my aspell install.

You can try "castellano" as well.

After M-x ispell-change-dictionary, you can press TAB for seeing a list
of available dictionaries

Re: Undefined dictionary: espanol

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 25.01.2010 um 13:24 schrieb Diego Alejandro Torres Galindo:

> "Undefined dictionary: espanol"


Try "M-x ispell-change-dictionary" and then let GNU Emacs complete the  
dictionary's name. This way it will list all dictionaries it finds.  
Maybe you just need to correct the spelling – or you need to install  
that dictionary! It does not come with GNU Emacs, it's part of your  
system's Ispell installation.

--
Greetings

   Pete

We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found  
ourselves than by those which have occurred to others.
				– Blaise Pascal

Re: Undefined dictionary: espanol

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 25.01.2010 um 17:10 schrieb Diego Alejandro Torres Galindo:

> When I try "M-x ispell-change-dictionary" I get
>
> Possible completions are:
> american 	british 	default
> english 	italiano 	svenska
>
> But in "/usr/lib/ispell/"  I have the dictionaries

So it looks as if two installers were working in bringing Ispell to  
your computer... (You could check with find or locate where all the  
AFF and HASH files are installed. It is most probably /usr/lib.) The  
only relevant programme is ispell itself. Launch it with -vv and see  
which LIBDIR it reports. The manual page should, in theory, mention  
this place as well. This directory is searched for dictionaries, and  
there doesn't seem to be a way to tell Ispell where to look for  
additional dictionaries.

If you can't make the second (additional) set of dictionaries to be  
removed from the old faulty place and re-installed in LIBDIR, then  
hard-link these files (HASH and AFF) into LIBDIR .

--
Greetings

   Pete

Ce qui été compris n'existe plus.
				(Paul Eluard)

Re: Undefined dictionary: espanol

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 25.01.2010 um 17:10 schrieb Diego Alejandro Torres Galindo:

> But in "/usr/lib/ispell/"  I have the dictionaries

There is a variable in GNU Emacs you could customise: ispell-alternate- 
dictionary. (Took some time to remember it.)

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Greetings

   Pete     === -Q
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Re: Undefined dictionary: espanol

[Óscar Fuentes]

[cc'ing help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org]

Diego Alejandro Torres Galindo <datorresg@gmail.com> writes:

> When I try "M-x ispell-change-dictionary" I get
>
> Possible completions are:
> american 	british 	default
> english 	italiano 	svenska
>
> But in "/usr/lib/ispell/"  I have the dictionaries
>
> american.aff            british.hash          english.hash
> italian.hash
> american.hash        britishmed.hash    espanol.aff              spanish.aff
> americanmed.hash  britishxlg.hash      espanol.hash          spanish.hash
> americanxlg.hash    svenska.aff
> british.aff                 english.aff             italian.aff
>          svenska.hash
>
> As you can see there is a spanish and "espanol" dictionaries in
> ispell. It is very strange.

Check that emacs is using `ispell' and not other application such as
`aspell'. See the value of the variable `ispell-program-name'.