Re: ispell within emacs

[Johann Spies <jhspies@adept.co.za>]

On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 09:36:16AM +0100, José Alberto Lobo wrote:

>     I have a problem to set up an emacs-ispell connection which works
> with Spanish for TeX/LaTeX files. There are two spanish dictionaries
> in the emacs edit>spell menu --the second one suitable to check for
> 8-bit characters.
> 
>     It appears that the flag  -t  is intended to cause ispell to pro-
> perly interpret TeX/LaTeX commands and act accordingly. While this
> works for English it does NOT fully work for Spanish. Thus for example
> the command
> 
> 		ispell -t -d castellano spanish_file.tex	(1)
> 
>     issued from an xterm does not recognise TeX style accentuated char-
> acters as parts of words. If the following is issued instead
> 
> 		ispell -T TeX -d castellano spanish_file.tex	(2)

I have the same problem with afrikaans (for which I developed my own
ispell dictionary).  

ispell -T TeX is not working for me. ispell -T tex and ispell -t
behaves identically which like this:

On the word re\"enwolke  it will select re as a word and nwolke as the
next word which is not what I want. 

My solution is to convert my file with emacs' iso-tex2iso macro. Latex
can compile that if you use \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}. I then then
use ispell with the -t -B options on that buffer.

If you are in emacs in an X-window, click on Help|Customize|Apropos
and search for dictionary which should result in:

------------------------------------------------------
Ispell Dictionary Alist: [Show]
   State: hidden, invoke "Show" in the previous line to show.
An alist of dictionaries and their associated parameters. [More]

Ispell Local Dictionary Alist: [Show]
   State: hidden, invoke "Show" in the previous line to show.
Contains local or customized dictionary definitions. [More]

Ispell Personal Dictionary: [Hide] nil
   [State]: this option has been set and saved.
File name of your personal spelling dictionary, or nil. [More]
----------------------------------------------------------
Click on the first [Show], search for your dictionary and modify
   whatever you want.  Remember to save it before you exit.

Johann
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