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[Henri Lesourd <address@hidden>]

Thomas Reinhardt wrote:

> Thank you for your quick reply. The language in my version is american.
> Naturally, I have no such dictionary, or, no such dictionary is
> available via aspell. I have also checked and aspell as well as ispell
> are both loaded on my machine. Again, I have no access to these
> dictionaries as things currently stand. 
>
>  
These language names look strange, it seems to me that e.g. "british"
doesn't exists in aspell (although I'm not sure).

There are *some* translation names in Plugins/Ispell/ispell.cpp:
[[
string
ispell_dictionary (string lang) {
 if (N(the_dict) == 0) {
   init_dictionary ("english", "english");
   init_dictionary ("english", "american");
   ....
}
]]

According to this, "american" *should* be understood by TeXmacs
as an "english" aspell dictionary name. According to the code
above, the real aspell command sent is :
[[
string cmd= "ispell -a -d " * ispell_dictionary (lan) ...
]]

thus the way it works seems to be sending
something like "ispell -a -d english ..."
to the UNIX system.


What should be done is:

1. testing under bash that you can actually run ispell and
  use the relevant dictionary ;

2. test exactly which ispell command TeXmacs is sending to
  the OS ;

I don't know more.


Of course, a real documentation about that would be better
than more or less exact guesses obtain from looking at the
code, but...