aspell-gcide

Aspell-gcide is a filter module for spell-checking dictionary files of the GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English using GNU Aspell.

Aspell-gcide is available for download from

https://download.gnu.org.ua/release/aspell-gcide/

or can be cloned from its repository by

git clone http://git.gnu.org.ua/aspell-gcide.git

You will need the following prerequisites:

1. Aspell must be installed on your system.
2. Aspell source files must be avilable on the file system.

To install aspell-gcide follow these steps:

• Configure the pachage

  ./configure CPPFLAGS=-Iaspell/common
  

  Replace aspell with the actual pathname to the directory where aspell sources are unpacked.

• Build the package:

  make
  

• Install the package

  make install
  

To check that the module is installed successfully, run

aspell filters

Its output should contain the following line:

gcide          filter for checking GCIDE corpus files

To install from the sources obtained from the git repository, you will additionally need the following packages:

• Autoconf
• Automake
• Libtool

First, run

autoreconf -f -i -s

Then, proceed as described in previous section.

To spell-check the GCIDE corpus files, use the following syntax:

aspll -c --add-filter gcide CIDE.A

The module will check the content of headwords (delimited by <ent> and </ent> tags) and definitions (delimited by <def> and </def>). To limit spell-checking to definitions only, use the --gcide-skip-headwords option, e.g.:

aspll -c --add-filter gcide --gcide-skip-headwords CIDE.A

You can also use these options from your .aspell.conf file:

add-filter gcide
f-gcide-skip-headwords true