On 4 May 2010 23:29, Kevin Atkinson <kev...@gnu.org> wrote: > > Did you install the English dictionary? You need to do that, even if you > don't plan to use it as Aspell needs the language data files. >
My bad. I downloaded it. I could have sworn that I looked for any kind of instructions, but obviously not. Pity about not being able to take words out again. I can see that you can clone. So I did j /home/john/aspell: aspell --lang en create master . < wordlist Warning: The word "people-power" is invalid. The character '-' (U+2D) may not appear in the middle of a word. Skipping word. Unhandled Error: The file "/home/john/aspell/dicts/." can not be opened for writing. Aborted (core dumped) Writing on top of a directory is, of course, frowned upon in most circles. j /home/john/aspell: aspell --lang en create master ./private < wordlist Warning: The word "people-power" is invalid. The character '-' (U+2D) may not appear in the middle of a word. Skipping word. So how do I enter double-barrel words into a dictionary? I guess the answer is, one doesn't. j /home/john/aspell: echo CCW|aspell list Error: The file "/home/john/aspell/private" is not in the proper format. od -c -tx1: 0000000 a s p e l l d e f a u l t s 61 73 70 65 6c 6c 20 64 65 66 61 75 6c 74 20 73 0000020 p e l l e r r o w l 1 . 1 0 70 65 6c 6c 65 72 20 72 6f 77 6c 20 31 2e 31 30 Guess I messed up again. Now what? Thanks, j. _______________________________________________ Aspell-user mailing list Aspell-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/aspell-user