A few months ago I asked for help in getting a medical dictionary into Aspell with the purpose of using in FCK Editor. I've gotten several queries about the solution and thought I would post it here in case others are searching. The only medical dictionary I could find offered was a .rws file compiled on a different OS the Fedora Core 6 I was using:
I went to http://www.e-medtools.com/openmedspel.html and downloaded a text medical term file for OpenOffice. You get a zip package that has an ascii file of words. Then I used the Aspell directions for adding custom dictionaries to create my own .rws file from that. In my Linux (Fedora Core 6) this is found by the command: info aspell. You have to add the line extra-dicts <rwsfile name> in the aspell.conf file, which in Linux is /etc/aspell.conf. If there is no file there, just create one. The command "aspell dump config" shows information about aspell config and should show the extra-dicts line after you install it. A text file is actually just what we were looking for, as we want to be able to add terms. This way the spellchecker within FCKEditor calls aspell and works, and the text file installed in OpenOffice works with the same list.
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