Re: [Alphacocoa-devel] Excalibur retirement

[Bernard D. <bde...@or...>]

Hi Tom,

you are right that the menu item «  Select Spelling Service » is broken in 9.0rc4 and does not change the service: it looks like it does but it doesn’t. I have fixed this yesterday. The fix is in the repository and will be in the next release (9.0rc5). Meanwhile, indeed choosing Alpha/Global Setup/Helper Applications is the right thing to do to change the spelling service.
You are also right that the user dictionaries are found in ~/Library/Spelling. They are text files so you can open them with Alpha rather than TextEdit ! :-).
There is one such file per language: on my machine, I have files ~/Library/Spelling/en and ~/Library/Spelling/fr. There is also  ~/Library/Spelling/LocalDictionary which applies to all languages (certainly it is used when you select Automatic in the languages popup in the Spelling Panel).
Sorry for the complications, but the spell checker is now stabilizing !

Bernard

Le 31 mai 2018 à 20:52, Tom Burke <bu...@ma...> a écrit :

> My user's dictionary finally showed up as ~/Library/Spelling/en and it's a TextEdit file.
> 
> One problem I was having is that the Spelling Service selection via Tools/Spelling submenu was not working. I checked this several times, and each time, aspell appeared to be the designated spell checker. I repeatedly selected "Alpha" and clicked OK. Then, when I did a spell check, nothing that was supposed to be learned was learned. 
> By chance I looked at Alpha/Global Setup/Helper Applications. Under Miscellaneous 1, the spell checker was indeed set as aspell despite my having selected Alpha via the Tools menu. I changed the Helper Applications setting, and all worked well first time out of the gate. The user's dictionary was finally created, the range of possible languages showed up, etc.
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> F. Thomas Burke, Philosophy Department, University of South Carolina, Columbia SC 29208 USA
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>> On May 31, 2018, at 8:57 AM, Bernard Desgraupes <bde...@or...> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Tom,
>> 
>> yes it is possible to unlearn a word but at the moment only « manually » . Open the Tcl Shell (cmd-Y) and type the following command (assuming the word you learnt by mistake is supercalifragilisticexpialidocious):
>> 
>> «» spellchecker unlearn supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
>> 
>> 
>> You can also test if a word is in the user’s dictionary by using the -c option with the [spellchecker learn ] command. For instance
>> «» spellchecker learn -c supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
>> 0
>> 
>> I don’t know exactly where the user’s dictionary is stored. It probably depends on the version of the System. Maybe in ~/Library/Dictionaries.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Bernard
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Le 31 mai 2018 à 14:40, Tom Burke <bu...@ma...> a écrit :
>> 
>>> Using the built-in spell checker: Is it possible to "unlearn" a word that was learned by mistake? If nothing else, can the user's dictionary be edited directly? Where is the user's dictionary located?
>>> --
>>> F. Thomas Burke, Philosophy Department, University of South Carolina, Columbia SC 29208 USA
>>> 
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>>>> On May 31, 2018, at 4:55 AM, Bernard Desgraupes <bde...@or...> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hi Eberhard,
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Le 31 mai 2018 à 10:35, Dr Eberhard W Lisse <el...@li...> a écrit :
>>>> 
>>>>> Bernard,
>>>>> 
>>>>> I notice the same behavior (empty spell window) when using aspell.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Aspell is installed in /usr/local/bin/aspell (from homebrew) and from
>>>>> the command line works on the same file.
>>>> 
>>>> Do you mean that no misspelled word is found and displayed in the spelling panel ?
>>>> Are you sure the right dictionary is selected (in the popup menu of the panel or in the Spelling -> Dictionaries submenu) ?
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> I do have two small issues with the spell window:
>>>>> 
>>>>> 1) I would like it to correct the word, if I double click on one of
>>>>> the offered choices (and then move to the next unknown word, like it
>>>>> does if I click the Correct button)
>>>>> 
>>>>> 2) Once learned, or ignored, I would like it to search for the next
>>>>> unknown word.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Is that possible?
>>>> 
>>>> I think both suggestions are feasible. I’ll look into this.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Bernard
>>>> 
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