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[Henri Lesourd <address@hidden>]

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Thomas Reinhardt wrote:

> Well, I ran TeXmacs from bash and tried to run the spell checker,
> setting different languages, as well as XYPic ... all with the less than
> gratifying results. Here's what bash recorded:
>
> thomas@thomas-desktop:~$ bash texmacs &
> [1] 7638
> thomas@thomas-desktop:~$ TeXmacs] With linked TrueType support
> TeXmacs] Launching 'aspell -a -d american'
> TeXmacs] Launching 'aspell -a -d american'
> TeXmacs] Launching 'aspell -a -d british'
>
>
>  
This seems shitty, for those names are not the standard
aspell dictionary names.


It seems that TeXmacs doesn't go thru:
string ispell_dictionary (string);

, otherwise we would have the usual names (i.e. "english",
"german", etc.).


In such a situation, Joris is the right person, for he
wrote the code for spell checking.


Or either, is it that the calls to aspell above have
been inserted manually by yourself ? In such a case,
there is a mistake, for aspell cannot understand such
names as "american", "british", etc.


What we need to know in the first place is if the standard
call to ispell from inside bash works on your machine, i.e.,
what do you obtain under bash if you try to check a word
using the "english" dictionnary" ?


> The end result is that I get the complaint about "american" or which
> ever language I choose not being found.
For sure, those names are not aspell names.


> According to my package manager,
> I've installed aspell for english, but I don't see "english" as an
> option on the Language menu, by the way.
>
>  
Probably it is not shown usually.


> I'd really like to get past these issues, if possible. I appreciate any
> suggestions, etc.
>
>  
Basically, the informations circulate from TeXmacs to ispell
in two steps :

1. From inside TeXmacs, creating the appropriate ispell
  command ;

2. Sending this very command to the OS ;


Thus troobleshooting this problem should be done by means
of verifying that (1) is done correctly (and at least,
to be able to know for sure what exactly TeXmacs is doing
on this side), and then by means of checking that one can
perform (2) without errors directly from inside bash.