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To use Aspell to spellcheck a file use:
aspell check [options] filename
at the command line where filename
is the file you want to
check and
options
is any number of optional options. Some of
the more useful ones include:
none
, url
, email
, sgml
, tex
,
texinfo
, nroff
, among others. For more information on the
various modes see Notes on Various Filters and Filter Modes.
ultra
,
fast
, normal
, or bad-spellers
. For more
information on these modes see Notes on the Different Suggestion Modes.
aspell
for the default mapping
or ispell
to use the same mapping that the Ispell utility
uses.
For more information on the available options, please see Customizing Aspell.
For example to check the file foo.txt
:
aspell check foo.txt
and to check the file foo.txt
using the bad-spellers
suggestion mode and the American English dictionary:
aspell check --sug-mode=bad-spellers -d en_US foo.txt
If the mode
option is not given then Aspell will use the
extension of the file to determine the current mode. If the extension
is .tex
, then tex
mode will be used, if the extension
is .html
, .htm
, .php
, or .sgml
it will
check the file in sgml
mode, otherwise it will use
url
mode.
For more information on the various modes that can be used, see Notes on Various Filters and Filter Modes.
If Aspell was compiled with curses support and the TERM
environment variable is set to a capable terminal type than Aspell
will use a nice full screen interface. Otherwise it will use a
simpler "dumb" terminal interface where the misspelled word is
surrounded by two '*'. In either case the interface should be self
explanatory.
If Aspell is compiled with a version of the curses library that support
wide characters than Aspell can also check UTF-8 text. Furthermore, the
document will be displayed in the encoding defined by the current
locale. This encoding does not necessary have to be the same encoding
that the document is in. This means that is is possible to check an
8-bit encoding such as ISO-8859-1 on an UTF-8 terminal. To do so
simply set the encoding
option to iso-8859-1
.
Furthermore it is also possible to check an UTF-8 document on an 8-bit
terminal provided that the document can be successfully converted into
that encoding.