Re: [ubuntu-in] importing aspell-hi dictionary into another computer
On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 22:20 +0530, Gora Mohanty wrote: On Thu, 2 Apr 2009 23:37:03 -0400 (GMT-04:00) Dinbandhu dinban...@sprynet.com wrote: I have spent months working on both my aspell-hi personalized dictionary as well as the aspell-hi system-wide dictionary, and now have a fairly extensive dictionary whose vocabulary is specialized for the writing which I do. I am now helping a colleague to set up the same aspell Hindi spell-checker in his computer, and need to install these Hindi dictionaries of mine for use with aspell in his computer. [...] So it would seem logical enough that if I want to put my hi.cwl into his computer, then I can just compress it into the hi.cwl.gz format and install it in his computer. Should this work? [...] No, just copying hi.cwl.gz is not going to work, and that procedure never has worked, at least not with recent versions of aspell. The file that aspell actually uses is in /var/lib/aspell/hi.rws on an Ubuntu system. The procedure to make this work is: o Download the aspell Hindi dictionary distribution from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/aspell/dict/hi/aspell6-hi-0.02-0.tar.bz2 o Unarchive it: tar xjf aspell6-hi-0.02-0.tar.bz2 cd aspell6-hi-0.02-0 # All further work from this dir. o Replace hi.cwl in the distribution with your hi.cwl. o See README for instructions. You have to run the following commands: ./configure make sudo make install I just tried it, and everything works perfectly up to here. If one has installed aspell-hi via synaptic, one just has to completely uninstall that first. It seems to install itself in a different way if you do it through synaptic. But doing it the way you've noted above, it works perfectly. o You can now remake the aspell Hindi distribution for use in a different computer, with: make dist which will create a aspell6-hi-0.02-0.tar.bz2 distribution package in the current directory. This will contain the new hi.cwl, and saves you the trouble of manually replacing it each time. This command did not work. Here is my terminal window output when I tried it: :~/aspell6-hi-0.02-0$ make dist perl proc Can't open perl script proc: No such file or directory make: *** [dist] Error 2 What do I need to do to make this command work? Another related question: I notice that after installing aspell-hi in my colleague's computer, there are no .aspell.hi.prepl and .aspell.hi.pws files in his home folder. These used to be the names of the personalized dictionaries. Is it now done in a different way? Because I would like to install my .aspell.hi.prepl and .aspell.hi.pws files in his computer as well. These are replacement word lists specific to the user, and are created only when the user adds personal words to the list in the aspell dictionary (usually through some aspell client like the gedit spell-checker). You should be able to copy this to the home directory of a new user, and have these work, provided aspell Hindi is installed and working. I found that this will not work if one simply pastes one's .aspell.hi.prepl and .aspell.hi.pws files in one's home directory. One first needs to allow aspell to create these files on its own, by opening a gedit text file, typing in hindi with the spellchecker active, and adding any word into the hindi dictionary. Those two files will then be created in the home directory. If one then copy-pastes the entire contents of one's own .aspell.hi.prepl and .aspell.hi.pws files in to those two files created by aspell, then it works perfectly. Regards, Swarup -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] importing aspell-hi dictionary into another computer
On Tue, 07 Apr 2009 14:16:02 -0400 Dinbandhu dinban...@sprynet.com wrote: [...] I just tried it, and everything works perfectly up to here. If one has installed aspell-hi via synaptic, one just has to completely uninstall that first. It seems to install itself in a different way if you do it through synaptic. But doing it the way you've noted above, it works perfectly. Yes, because you are overriding the default packaging mechanism. o You can now remake the aspell Hindi distribution for use in a different computer, with: make dist which will create a aspell6-hi-0.02-0.tar.bz2 distribution package in the current directory. This will contain the new hi.cwl, and saves you the trouble of manually replacing it each time. This command did not work. Here is my terminal window output when I tried it: :~/aspell6-hi-0.02-0$ make dist perl proc Can't open perl script proc: No such file or directory make: *** [dist] Error 2 What do I need to do to make this command work? [...] Ah, sorry. You need some aspell developer stuff that was already installed on my computer. You have two options: o Send me your hi.cwl.gz, and I will make you a distribution. o Follow the steps in http://indlinux.org/wiki/index.php/IndicSpellchecker That write-up is for a new language, and as Hindi should already exist, all you should need is to get aspell-lang, as described in step 3, and then 8. After that, things should work. Do you have an IRC nickname, or Gtalk, or some other IM client that you use. Things might be quicker to handle there. I am g...@srijan.in on Gtalk. I found that this will not work if one simply pastes one's .aspell.hi.prepl and .aspell.hi.pws files in one's home directory. One first needs to allow aspell to create these files on its own, by opening a gedit text file, typing in hindi with the spellchecker active, and adding any word into the hindi dictionary. [...] Hmm, OK. I didn't know that, and it is good to know. Probably sets some aspell flag that a personal user dictionary exists. Regards, Gora -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] importing aspell-hi dictionary into another computer
On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 00:02 +0530, Gora Mohanty wrote: On Tue, 07 Apr 2009 14:16:02 -0400 Dinbandhu dinban...@sprynet.com wrote: [...] o You can now remake the aspell Hindi distribution for use in a different computer, with: make dist which will create a aspell6-hi-0.02-0.tar.bz2 distribution package in the current directory. This will contain the new hi.cwl, and saves you the trouble of manually replacing it each time. This command did not work. Here is my terminal window output when I tried it: :~/aspell6-hi-0.02-0$ make dist perl proc Can't open perl script proc: No such file or directory make: *** [dist] Error 2 What do I need to do to make this command work? [...] Ah, sorry. You need some aspell developer stuff that was already installed on my computer. You have two options: o Send me your hi.cwl.gz, and I will make you a distribution. o Follow the steps in http://indlinux.org/wiki/index.php/IndicSpellchecker That write-up is for a new language, and as Hindi should already exist, all you should need is to get aspell-lang, as described in step 3, and then 8. After that, things should work. Do you have an IRC nickname, or Gtalk, or some other IM client that you use. Things might be quicker to handle there. I am g...@srijan.in on Gtalk. I will try to do the install as you described it, using step 3 and then 8. It will be best for me to have the software here with me, as from time to time I will want to create an updated version. -- If I have difficulty with the install process, I'll let you know and perhaps we can work it out at that time using IM, as you have suggested. Many thanks. Regards, Swarup -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] importing aspell-hi dictionary into another computer
--Original Message- From: Gora Mohanty g...@sarai.net Sent: Apr 5, 2009 12:50 PM To: ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: Re: [ubuntu-in] importing aspell-hi dictionary into another computer On Thu, 2 Apr 2009 23:37:03 -0400 (GMT-04:00) Dinbandhu dinban...@sprynet.com wrote: I have spent months working on both my aspell-hi personalized dictionary as well as the aspell-hi system-wide dictionary, and now have a fairly extensive dictionary whose vocabulary is specialized for the writing which I do. I am now helping a colleague to set up the same aspell Hindi spell-checker in his computer, and need to install these Hindi dictionaries of mine for use with aspell in his computer. [...] So it would seem logical enough that if I want to put my hi.cwl into his computer, then I can just compress it into the hi.cwl.gz format and install it in his computer. Should this work? [...] No, just copying hi.cwl.gz is not going to work, and that procedure never has worked, at least not with recent versions of aspell. The file that aspell actually uses is in /var/lib/aspell/hi.rws on an Ubuntu system. The procedure to make this work is: o Download the aspell Hindi dictionary distribution from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/aspell/dict/hi/aspell6-hi-0.02-0.tar.bz2 o Unarchive it: tar xjf aspell6-hi-0.02-0.tar.bz2 cd aspell6-hi-0.02-0 # All further work from this dir. o Replace hi.cwl in the distribution with your hi.cwl. o See README for instructions. You have to run the following commands: ./configure make sudo make install Wow, this is great information-- thanks! I had really been struggling to get this done, and now with the information you've given it should be straightforward. Two questions on the above: 1. The aspell Hindi dictionary distribution is also available directly from the repositories via Synaptic in Ubunutu. Is that a different version from the one you refer to above (at the site ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/aspell/dict/hi/aspell6-hi-0.02-0.tar.bz2)? 2. If it is different, then if someone has already installed the version via Synaptic, I guess it would be very important to first do a complete uninstall of that (using Synaptic), and then follow the instructions above. o You can now remake the aspell Hindi distribution for use in a different computer, with: make dist This command is to be done from within the aspell6-hi-0.02-0 directory, right? which will create a aspell6-hi-0.02-0.tar.bz2 distribution package in the current directory. This will contain the new hi.cwl, and saves you the trouble of manually replacing it each time. I see-- so once I've created this file, I can email it to my colleagues and when they follow the above directions, they will get an aspell-hi which contains the dictionary I have made. However, please do not redistribute it publicly with the same verion number, and variant name, so as not to cause confusion with the official distribution. If you wish to make your list publicly available, please contact me off- list. Got it. Thank you very much. Regards, Swarup -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] importing aspell-hi dictionary into another computer
On Thu, 2 Apr 2009 23:37:03 -0400 (GMT-04:00) Dinbandhu dinban...@sprynet.com wrote: I have spent months working on both my aspell-hi personalized dictionary as well as the aspell-hi system-wide dictionary, and now have a fairly extensive dictionary whose vocabulary is specialized for the writing which I do. I am now helping a colleague to set up the same aspell Hindi spell-checker in his computer, and need to install these Hindi dictionaries of mine for use with aspell in his computer. [...] So it would seem logical enough that if I want to put my hi.cwl into his computer, then I can just compress it into the hi.cwl.gz format and install it in his computer. Should this work? [...] No, just copying hi.cwl.gz is not going to work, and that procedure never has worked, at least not with recent versions of aspell. The file that aspell actually uses is in /var/lib/aspell/hi.rws on an Ubuntu system. The procedure to make this work is: o Download the aspell Hindi dictionary distribution from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/aspell/dict/hi/aspell6-hi-0.02-0.tar.bz2 o Unarchive it: tar xjf aspell6-hi-0.02-0.tar.bz2 cd aspell6-hi-0.02-0 # All further work from this dir. o Replace hi.cwl in the distribution with your hi.cwl. o See README for instructions. You have to run the following commands: ./configure make sudo make install o You can now remake the aspell Hindi distribution for use in a different computer, with: make dist which will create a aspell6-hi-0.02-0.tar.bz2 distribution package in the current directory. This will contain the new hi.cwl, and saves you the trouble of manually replacing it each time. However, please do not redistribute it publicly with the same verion number, and variant name, so as not to cause confusion with the official distribution. If you wish to make your list publicly available, please contact me off- list. Another related question: I notice that after installing aspell-hi in my colleague's computer, there are no .aspell.hi.prepl and .aspell.hi.pws files in his home folder. These used to be the names of the personalized dictionaries. Is it now done in a different way? Because I would like to install my .aspell.hi.prepl and .aspell.hi.pws files in his computer as well. These are replacement word lists specific to the user, and are created only when the user adds personal words to the list in the aspell dictionary (usually through some aspell client like the gedit spell-checker). You should be able to copy this to the home directory of a new user, and have these work, provided aspell Hindi is installed and working. Regards, Gora -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
[ubuntu-in] importing aspell-hi dictionary into another computer
--I just rejoined the list yesterday, and couldn't tell whether this reached the list or not-- Hello All, I have spent months working on both my aspell-hi personalized dictionary as well as the aspell-hi system-wide dictionary, and now have a fairly extensive dictionary whose vocabulary is specialized for the writing which I do. I am now helping a colleague to set up the same aspell Hindi spell-checker in his computer, and need to install these Hindi dictionaries of mine for use with aspell in his computer. But it seems that the aspell structure has changed a bit since I got mine set up. It used to be that the system-wide Hindi dictionary was a file called hi.cwl. One could edit it by decompressing the file, opening it in gedit, then saving the changes and recompressing the file into the hi.cwl format. But now I find that when one installs aspell-hi in a computer today, it is kept in a different format -- hi.cwl.gz. This it seems is basically another compression format. So it would seem logical enough that if I want to put my hi.cwl into his computer, then I can just compress it into the hi.cwl.gz format and install it in his computer. Should this work? I ask, because I have tried this in one person's computer, and the hindi spellchecker stopped working. So I am a bit scared to try it again. Another related question: I notice that after installing aspell-hi in my colleague's computer, there are no .aspell.hi.prepl and .aspell.hi.pws files in his home folder. These used to be the names of the personalized dictionaries. Is it now done in a different way? Because I would like to install my .aspell.hi.prepl and .aspell.hi.pws files in his computer as well. Thanks! Regards, Swarup -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] importing aspell-hi dictionary into another computer
Dinbandhu wrote: --I just rejoined the list yesterday, and couldn't tell whether this reached the list or not-- It did reach the list. If you are not sure, you can enable mail acknowledgments from your settings or check here https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-in/2009-April/thread.html I dont have much idea about this topic, wait for other people who have idea on this topic to reply. -- Manish Sinha Blog [ http://blog.manishsinha.net/ ] Tech Blog [ http://manishtech.wordpress.com/ ] Twitter [ http://twitter.com/ManishSinha ] -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] importing aspell-hi dictionary into another computer
On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 22:34 +0530, Manish Sinha (मनीष सिन्हा) wrote: Dinbandhu wrote: --I just rejoined the list yesterday, and couldn't tell whether this reached the list or not-- It did reach the list. If you are not sure, you can enable mail acknowledgments from your settings or check here https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-in/2009-April/thread.html I dont have much idea about this topic, wait for other people who have idea on this topic to reply. Thank you for your kind reply and information. I do not know whether Gora Mohanty is still a member of this list, or whether his email address has perhaps changed. He is perhaps the most knowledgeable person with regard to the aspell-hi spellchecker, but for several months I had been unable to reach him. If anyone has further information as to how to reach him, kindly let me know. Since my last letter I have experimented further with the aspell-hi, and here is what I have found. In my old computer--in which the motherboard went bad a week ago--the spellchecker was working fine. So now I have gotten a new computer, and installed the aspell-hi using Synaptic. Upon installing it, it works fine. That is, those words which it has in its dictionary it correctly recognizes to be correct, and those words not in the dictionary it correctly marks with a red line. But the dictionary's word list has many mistakes in it-- wrongly spelled words that do not belong, plus many, many missing words and especially verb forms. Over the course of many months I gradually removed most of the misspelled words from its system-wide dictionary file, and added many needed words and verb forms into the personalized dictionary file. There is one system-wide dictionary file (hi.cwl), and two personal dictionary files (.aspell.hi.prepl and .aspell.hi.pws). These three files I pasted in the places where they belong, in my new computer. The hi.cwl file I first compressed into the form hi.cwl.gz., as that is how it currently appears in aspell. Once I pasted these three files in their respective places, the Hindi spellchecker still runs i.e. one can set the spellchecker language to Hindi, and upon asking it to check a text document it will do so-- but it underlines ALL the words in red. So the lists are not working for some reason. This is the critical point about which I need help. Thank you, Swarup -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
[ubuntu-in] importing aspell-hi dictionary into another computer
Hello All, I have spent months working on both my aspell-hi personalized dictionary as well as the aspell-hi system-wide dictionary, and now have a fairly extensive dictionary whose vocabulary is specialized for the writing which I do. I am now helping a colleague to set up the same aspell Hindi spell-checker in his computer, and need to install these Hindi dictionaries of mine for use with aspell in his computer. But it seems that the aspell structure has changed a bit since I got mine set up. It used to be that the system-wide Hindi dictionary was a file called hi.cwl. One could edit it by decompressing the file, opening it in gedit, then saving the changes and recompressing the file into the hi.cwl format. But now I find that when one installs aspell-hi in a computer today, it is kept in a different format -- hi.cwl.gz. This it seems is basically another compression format. So it would seem logical enough that if I want to put my hi.cwl into his computer, then I can just compress it into the hi.cwl.gz format and install it in his computer. Should this work? I ask, because I have tried this in one person's computer, and the hindi spellchecker stopped working. So I am a bit scared to try it again. Another related question: I notice that after installing aspell-hi in my colleague's computer, there are no .aspell.hi.prepl and .aspell.hi.pws files in his home folder. These used to be the names of the personalized dictionaries. Is it now done in a different way? Because I would like to install my .aspell.hi.prepl and .aspell.hi.pws files in his computer as well. Thanks! Regards, Swarup -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
