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 and configured.

To install aspell-gcide follow these steps:

• Configure the pachage

  ./configure 'CPPFLAGS=-Iaspell/common -Iaspell/gen'
  

  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:

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

The module will check the entire file content. To limit spell-checking to definitions only, use the --add-gcide-include-tags=def option, e.g.:

aspell -c --add-filter gcide --add-gcide-include-tags=def CIDE.A

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

add-filter gcide
add-f-gcide-include-tags def

The filter provides three configuration options:

gcide-include-tags (list)

List of markup tags whose content is subject to spell-checking.

gcide-exclude-tags (list)

List of markup tags whose content will be excluded from spell-checking.

gcide-skip-headwords bool

Exclude ent and hw tags. This is equivalent to --add-gcide-exclude-tags ent --add-gcide-exclude-tags hw.

The options can be set both from command line or from aspell configuration file. To set the skip-headwords option from command line, use:

--gcide-skip-headwords

To set it from your configuration file, add the following line:

f-skip-headwords true

To set list options from the command line, prefix them with --add-, like this:

--add-gcide-exclude-tags ent

To set them from the configuration file, prefix them with add-f-, e.g.

add-f-gcide-exclude-tags ent

By default, entire file will be checked. If the gcide-include-tags list is set, then only the tags from that list will be checked. If gcide-exclude-tags list is set, tags from this list will be excluded from checking.

use-other-dicts true
add-filter gcide
add-f-gcide-include-tags def
add-f-gcide-exclude-tags spn
add-f-gcide-exclude-tags kingdom
add-f-gcide-exclude-tags phylum
add-f-gcide-exclude-tags subphylum
add-f-gcide-exclude-tags class
add-f-gcide-exclude-tags subclass
add-f-gcide-exclude-tags ord
add-f-gcide-exclude-tags subord
add-f-gcide-exclude-tags suborder
add-f-gcide-exclude-tags fam
add-f-gcide-exclude-tags subfam
add-f-gcide-exclude-tags gen
add-f-gcide-exclude-tags var