lab9 question8

[Diane Dymesich]

I think Rich showed us this in class but I can't remember how to do it,

What should be done with words like "Ayshire" and "moshpit" that aren't in UNIX's dictionary?

Thanks ,
Diane

[Nicholas Gardner]

To add words to aspell create a file in your home directory called ".aspell.en.pws" with the following lines in it:

personal_ws-1.1 en 0
word1
word2...

you just need the first line, you can substitute whatever you want for word1 and word2, as well as add more words if you wish. You can find everything you need on slide 67 from lesson 11.
The URL referenced in the slides:
[url]http://samat.org/weblog/20081102-creating-your-own-personal-aspell-dictionary.html[/url]

[Michael Wicherski]

for the lab, you can just leave those two words in the words file or whatever the file containing misspelled words was supposed to be named

[Rich Simms]

I'm not expecting you to make your own personal dictionary for Lab 9. But I'm going to make it a 2 point extra credit opportunity for forum readers!

Review Nicholas' post or the Lesson 11 slides 63-68 we covered in class. After creating and testing your own personal aspell dictionary you can submit it for extra credit by:

[code]
ls ~/.a* > lab09xc
cat ~/.a* >> lab09xc
cp lab09xc /home/rsimms/cis90/lab09xc.$LOGNAME
[/code]
Same due date as lab 9.

- Rich

[Michael Wicherski]

[quote="Rich Simms"]I'm not expecting you to make your own personal dictionary for Lab 9. But I'm going to make it a 2 point extra credit opportunity for forum readers!

Review Michael's post or the Lesson 11 slides 63-68 we covered in class. After creating and testing your own personal aspell dictionary you can submit it for extra credit by:

[code]
ls ~/.a* > lab09xc
cat ~/.a* >> lab09xc
cp lab09xc /home/rsimms/cis90/lab09xc.$LOGNAME
[/code]
Same due date as lab 9.

- Rich[/quote]

just wanna re-route the credit to nicholas; i haven't made a post about dictionaries

[Rich Simms]

Yes, the aspell post was from Nicholas ... I'm editing my earlier post - Rich

[Henry Woolard]

So now that I have created the dictionary file how do I use it? thanks -henry

[Diane Dymesich]

okay,
A little more help please.
I got this error message when testing out my dictionary

/home/cis90/dymesdia/edits $ spell small_town
Unhandled Error: The encoding "ayshire" is not known. This could also mean that the file "/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/ayshire.cset" could not be opened for reading or does not exist.

Thanks,
Diane

[chithra mohanavelu]

hi

I have followed Nicholas Gardner instruction created a file
touch .aspell.en.pws
vi .aspell.en.pws
personal_ws-1.1 en 0
Ayshire
moshpit
save the file
run the spell command

[Rich Simms]

Diane,
cat your .aspell.en.pws file and compare the lines to the ones shown in Nicolas' or Chithra's posts and I think you will see the problem right away.

Henry,
Use the spell command again on small_town. Any words you add to .aspell.en.pws (your personal dictionary) will no longer be considered misspelled.

- Rich