19 Apr
2025
19 Apr
'25
4:38 p.m.
On Fri, 18 Apr 2025, Darrell Anderson via tde-users wrote:
I did that with Libre Office and did *not* see any updates in either of
those files. So, Libre Office (in linux) seems to come with it's own
dictionary and/or maintain it's own user's 'quirks' file.
On 4/18/25 8:01 AM, Marvin Jones via tde-users wrote:
OH! And I forgot to mention. To fully complete the process of cleaning
up the spelling anomalies in the files, I load them as text files in
Libre Office ... and I see yet a *third* unique spelling process.
I use kwrite to create/build fortune files. I
see what you see.
I use the spell checking in kwrite, and then I use
$ aspell -c <filename> from the command line.
That is part of what confuses me. TDE should be tapping into the underlying
spell engine. Should be transparent. I believe most Linux software functions
that way. Why does TDE routinely not flag misspelled words and other Linux
tools do this correctly? My first guess is this might be circular reasoning ---
we use TDE and presume the problem is TDE. Yes, I once
asked where kwrite's spell checker saves the user (a)dded
words. Crickets. I need to clean it up due to fat-fingering the
keyboard from time-to-time.
I edited a document in Kate/KWrite and intentionally added a spell check
exception. The result was two new files:
$HOME/.aspell.en.prepl
$HOME/.aspell.en.pws Looks like the prepl file (REPLacement dictionary)
contains the user's
preferred dictionary language preference and a list of common misspellings and
corrections.
That's my understanding (now), too. I can see several of my
"correction-in-error" in there -- which I'll delete.
Looks like the pws (personal word list) file
duplicates the
language information and contains a list of additions.
Additions -- yes, the "Add To Dictionary" choices -- where again I see
several of my prior "additions-in-error".
(I guess I could use Libre Office to spell check and clean up those 2
files. :-}
... adding spell check exceptions has little to do
with not flagging
obviously misspelled words. A possible presumption is the underlying
engine does not contain the correct spellings and is not a TDE
specific issue.
It's got to be more than that. I see different aspell flaggings in
kwrite versus straight from the command line. Dunno what Libre Office
is doing/using...
Oh, well. I trudge on.
Jonesy
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