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Date:      Tue, 2 Dec 2014 19:45:44 +0100
From:      Tijl Coosemans <tijl@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com>
Cc:        Stephen Fisher <sfisher@sdf.org>, FreeBSD Ports ML <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Why was ispell removed?
Message-ID:  <20141202194544.208d506b@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAN6yY1u99RGsmy0LumfOkBwjC3xUEPwpauzp4SCaRTRs7s2=VA@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <20141201205804.GB9933@SDF.ORG> <20141202094343.2be67f01@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org> <CAN6yY1u99RGsmy0LumfOkBwjC3xUEPwpauzp4SCaRTRs7s2=VA@mail.gmail.com>

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On Tue, 2 Dec 2014 10:00:31 -0800 Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 12:43 AM, Tijl Coosemans <tijl@freebsd.org> wrote:
>> Give hunspell a try.  It's actively maintained and backed by Mozilla,
>> OpenOffice, LibreOffice,...
>>
>> % hunspell -d en_US
>> Hunspell 1.3.3
>> Write a sontence here
>> *
>> *
>> & sontence 2 8: sentence, consistence
>> *
> 
> I'll admit that I may just be too lazy to hunt around for it, but:
>  > hunspell -a en_US
> @(#) International Ispell Version 3.2.06 (but really Hunspell 1.3.3)
> Can't open en_US.
> Exit 1
> 
> I looked though the system and found the following en_US dictionaries:
> /usr/local/lib/firefox/dictionaries/
> /usr/local/lib/libxul/dictionaries/
> /usr/local/lib/linux-libgtkembedmoz/components/myspell/
> I tried specifying one as the path (hunspell -p
> /usr/local/lib/firefox/dictionaries/ -d en_US, but it then said:
> Can't open affix or dictionary files for dictionary named "en_US". (Got the
> same message for "-d en-US")
> 
> I have no idea why it can't open these files. They are present and
> readable. In any case, I am at a loss on how to make hunspell work.

Install textproc/en-hunspell



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