From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 11 10:34:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from monsoon.mail.pipex.net (monsoon.mail.pipex.net [158.43.128.69]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B055A4734 for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2000 10:34:06 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 15505 invoked from network); 11 Feb 2000 18:33:47 -0000 Received: from userbk23.uk.uudial.com (HELO marder-1.) (62.188.144.31) by smtp.dial.pipex.com with SMTP; 11 Feb 2000 18:33:47 -0000 Received: (from mark@localhost) by marder-1. (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA00805; Fri, 11 Feb 2000 18:26:30 GMT (envelope-from mark) Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 18:26:30 +0000 From: Mark Ovens To: aunty Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AU/UK/NZ spelling dictionary? Message-ID: <20000211182630.A548@marder-1> References: <20000211143146.A6488@comcen.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <20000211143146.A6488@comcen.com.au> Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Feb 11, 2000 at 02:31:46PM +1100, aunty wrote: > Is there some way to get a non-USA dictionary, preferably Australian > English or similar, for users to use with a commandline spelling > checker such as ispell? > ispell(1) can now be built with English (as opposed to American) dictionaries. From the ispell Makefile: @${ECHO_MSG} '*********************************************************' @${ECHO_MSG} '* Note that you can add build a british version by *' @${ECHO_MSG} '* typing "make british" (port must be clean, type *' @${ECHO_MSG} '* "make clean" to clean it). *' @${ECHO_MSG} '* Additionally, you can add further dictionaries: *' @${ECHO_MSG} '* Use make-flag: *' @${ECHO_MSG} '* - French ISPELL_FR=yes *' @${ECHO_MSG} '* - Brasilian ISPELL_BR=yes *' @${ECHO_MSG} '* - German (old spelling) ISPELL_DEALT=yes *' @${ECHO_MSG} '* - German (new spelling) ISPELL_DENEU=yes *' @${ECHO_MSG} '* - Swedish ISPELL_SE=yes *' @${ECHO_MSG} '* Example: "make ISPELL_FR=yes ISPELL_SE=yes british" *' @${ECHO_MSG} '*********************************************************' Is that good enough in Australia? > ISTR reading that the USA-English one we have is the only one without > copyright hassles. I'd rather pay for a dictionary than present wrongly > spelled words as checked correct and vice versa. > > Can anyone suggest what my options might be? > > -- > > Regards, > -*Sue*- > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Microsoft: Where do you want to go today? Linux: Where do you want to go tomorrow? BSD: Are you guys coming, or what? -Poster at LinuxWorld 2000 ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message