POFILESPELL(1)POFILESPELL(1)NAME
POFileSpell - checks the spelling in a collection of PO files
SYNOPSIS
POFileSpell [OPTION] [...] [FILE] [...]
INTRODUCTION
POFileSpell checks the spelling in a collection of PO files.
COMMAND LINE OPTIONS --help or -h
show usage instructions
--interactive or -i
interactive mode, iterate through the spelling errors using a text mode interface; see the Interactive Mode section
--overview or -o
generate an overview file, grouping by error and not by file
--dict=file or -d file
load a file with a list of words to consider correct; can be used multiple times
--batch-add=file
load a file with a list of words to add to the X-POFile-SpellExtra section of each of the target PO files; can be used multiple
times; when used, the actual spelling process is not run
--command=command
the command used for actually spell checking the text, by default aspell --encoding=utf-8 -l; if you want to use ispell, try
something like --comand="ispell -l" or --comand="iconv -t iso-8859-1 | ispell -l"
INTERACTIVE MODE
In interactive mode you iterate through each of the errors found. In each prompt you can press a to add the word to a file's
X-POFile-SpellExtra entry, n to ignore all further errors from this file, Enter to ignore this error or, if you are using one or more
dictionary files, the number of the file (1, 2, ...) to add the word to that dictionary file.
PO FILE HEADER DIRECTIVES
POFileSpell recognizes one PO file header directive. As with all gettext lint tools, this directive is prefixed with X-POFile.
X-POFile-SpellExtra: word
adds the word to the file's list of accepted words
DICTIONARY FILE FORMAT
Dictionary files are just lists of words, one on each line. For example:
word 1
word 2
word n
MORE INFORMATION
gettext-lint web page: http://gettext-lint.sourceforge.net/
AUTHOR
Pedro Morais.
<morais@kde.org>
08/16/2006 POFILESPELL(1)
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SPELL(1) General Commands Manual SPELL(1)NAME
spell, spellin, spellout - find spelling errors
SYNOPSIS
spell [ -v ] [ -b ] [ -x ] [ -d hlist ] [ -s hstop ] [ -h spellhist ] [ file ] ...
spellin [ list ]
spellout [ -d ] list
DESCRIPTION
Spell collects words from the named documents, and looks them up in a spelling list. Words that neither occur among nor are derivable (by
applying certain inflections, prefixes or suffixes) from words in the spelling list are printed on the standard output. If no files are
named, words are collected from the standard input.
Spell ignores most troff, tbl and eqn(1) constructions.
Under the -v option, all words not literally in the spelling list are printed, and plausible derivations from spelling list words are indi-
cated.
Under the -b option, British spelling is checked. Besides preferring centre, colour, speciality, travelled, etc., this option insists upon
-ise in words like standardise, Fowler and the OED to the contrary notwithstanding.
Under the -x option, every plausible stem is printed with `=' for each word.
The spelling list is based on many sources. While it is more haphazard than an ordinary dictionary, it is also more effective with proper
names and popular technical words. Coverage of the specialized vocabularies of biology, medicine and chemistry is light.
The auxiliary files used for the spelling list, stop list, and history file may be specified by arguments following the -d, -s, and -h
options. The default files are indicated below. Copies of all output may be accumulated in the history file. The stop list filters out
misspellings (e.g. thier=thy-y+ier) that would otherwise pass.
Two routines help maintain the hash lists used by spell. Both expect a set of words, one per line, from the standard input. Spellin com-
bines the words from the standard input and the preexisting list file and places a new list on the standard output. If no list file is
specified, the new list is created from scratch. Spellout looks up each word from the standard input and prints on the standard output
those that are missing from (or present on, with option -d) the hashed list file. For example, to verify that hookey is not on the default
spelling list, add it to your own private list, and then use it with spell,
echo hookey | spellout /usr/dict/hlista
echo hookey | spellin /usr/dict/hlista > myhlist
spell -d myhlist huckfinn
FILES
/usr/dict/hlist[ab] hashed spelling lists, American & British, default for -d
/usr/dict/hstop hashed stop list, default for -s
/dev/null history file, default for -h
/tmp/spell.$$* temporary files
/usr/libexec/spell
SEE ALSO deroff(1), sort(1), tee(1), sed(1)BUGS
The spelling list's coverage is uneven; new installations will probably wish to monitor the output for several months to gather local addi-
tions.
British spelling was done by an American.
7th Edition October 22, 1996 SPELL(1)