enchant(1)

NAME
Enchant - a spellchecker

SYNOPSIS
enchant [-a] [-l] [-L] [-v]

DESCRIPTION
Enchant is an ispell-compatible spellchecker.

  OPTIONS

-a  List alternatives

-l  List only the misspellings

-L  Includes the line number in the output

-v  Prints the program's version

ENCHANT ORDERING FILE
Enchant has a global and a per-user ordering file called enchant.ordering. It lets the user specify which spelling backend to use for individual languages in the case when you care which backend gets used. This global file is located in $(datadir)/enchant; the per-user file is located in ~/.enchant. The per-user file takes precedence, if found.

The ordering file takes the form language_tag:<comma-separated list of spelling backends>. I am currently aware of the following backends: aspell, myspell, ispell, uspell, hspell. The comma-separated list may not include spaces. '*' is used to mean "use this ordering for all languages, unless instructed otherwise." For example:

*:aspell,myspell,ispell
en:aspell,myspell,ispell
en_UK:myspell,aspell,ispell
fr:myspell,ispell:aspell

DIRECTORIES IMPORTANT TO ENCHANT
Unless configured otherwise, Enchant's Myspell, Ispell, and Uspell backends will look for dictionaries in directories specific to Enchant, and will not use your system-wide installed dictionaries. This is for pragmatic reasons - every distribution installs these dictionaries into different places.

Like the enchant.ordering file described above, Enchant will look in a global directory for these dictionaries and a per-user directory. The per-user directory takes precedence, if found. Enchant looks for Myspell dictionaries in $(datadir)/enchant/myspell and ~/.enchant/myspell. Enchant looks for Ispell dictionaries in $(datadir)/enchant/ispell and ~/.enchant/ispell. Enchant looks for Uspell dictionaries in $(datadir)/enchant/uspell and ~/.enchant/uspell

Packagers and users may wish to make symbolic links to the system-wide dictionary directories. Or, preferably, use the --with-myspell-dir, --with-ispell-dir, and --with-uspell-dir 'configure' arguments.

MORE INFORMATION
http://www.abisource.com/enchant/

SEE ALSO
aspell(1), ispell(1),

AUTHOR
 Dom Lachowicz
 WEB: http://www.abisource.com/enchant/
 MAIL: cinamod@hotmail.com