1ENCHANT(1)                  Enchant Mini Help File                  ENCHANT(1)
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NAME

6       Enchant - a spellchecker
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SYNOPSIS

9       enchant [-a] [-l] [-L] [-v]
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DESCRIPTION

12       Enchant is an ispell-compatible spellchecker.
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14   OPTIONS
15       -a     List alternatives.
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17       -l     List only the misspellings.
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19       -L     Include the line number in the output.
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21       -v     Prints the program's version.
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ENCHANT ORDERING FILE

24       Enchant  has a global and a per-user ordering file named enchant.order‐
25       ing.  It lets the user specify which spelling backend to use for  indi‐
26       vidual languages in the case when you care which backend gets used. The
27       global file is located in $(datadir)/enchant and the per-user  file  is
28       located in ~/.enchant.  The per-user file takes precedence, if found.
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30       The  ordering file takes the form language_tag:<comma-separated list of
31       spelling backends>. I am currently aware  of  the  following  backends:
32       aspell,  myspell,  ispell, uspell, hspell. The comma-separated list may
33       not include spaces. '*' is used to mean "use this ordering for all lan‐
34       guages, unless instructed otherwise." For example:
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37       en:aspell,myspell,ispell
38       en_UK:myspell,aspell,ispell
39       fr:myspell,ispell:aspell
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DIRECTORIES IMPORTANT TO ENCHANT

42       Unless  configured  otherwise,  Enchant's  Myspell,  Ispell, and Uspell
43       backends will look for dictionaries in directories specific to Enchant,
44       and  will  not use your system-wide installed dictionaries. This is for
45       pragmatic reasons since many distributions install  these  dictionaries
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48       Like  the  enchant.ordering  file described above, Enchant looks in the
49       global directory for these dictionaries and a per-user directory.   The
50       per-user  directory takes precedence if it is found.  Enchant looks for
51       Myspell     dictionaries     in     $(datadir)/enchant/myspell      and
52       ~/.enchant/myspell.    Enchant   looks   for   Ispell  dictionaries  in
53       $(datadir)/enchant/ispell and  ~/.enchant/ispell.   Enchant  looks  for
54       Uspell dictionaries in $(datadir)/enchant/uspell and ~/.enchant/uspell.
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56       Packagers  and users may wish to make symbolic links to the system-wide
57       dictionary directories. Or,  preferably,  use  the  --with-myspell-dir,
58       --with-ispell-dir, and --with-uspell-dir 'configure' arguments.
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MORE INFORMATION

61       http://www.abisource.com/enchant/
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SEE ALSO

64       aspell(1), ispell(1),
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AUTHOR

67        Dom Lachowicz
68        WEB: http://www.abisource.com/enchant/
69        MAIL: cinamod@hotmail.com
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73enchant                            July 2006                        ENCHANT(1)
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