NAME

       Enchant - a spellchecker

SYNOPSIS

       enchant [-a] [-d dict] [-h] [-l] [-L] [-v]

DESCRIPTION

       Enchant is an ispell-compatible spellchecker.

   OPTIONS
       -a     List suggestions in ispell pipe mode format.

       -d dict
              Use dictionary <dict>.

       -h     Show short help.

       -l     List only the misspellings.

       -L     Include the line number in the output.

       -v     Prints the program's version.

ENCHANT ORDERING FILE

       Enchant has a global and a per-user ordering file named enchant.ordering.  It lets the user specify which
       spelling  backend  to use for individual languages in the case when you care which backend gets used. The
       global file is located in $(datadir)/enchant and the per-user file is located in  ~/.enchant.   The  per-
       user file takes precedence, if found.

       The ordering file takes the form language_tag:<comma-separated list of spelling backends>. I am currently
       aware  of  the  following backends: aspell, myspell, ispell, uspell, hspell, voikko, and zemberek. '*' is
       used to mean "use this ordering for all languages, unless instructed otherwise." For example:

       *:aspell,myspell,ispell
       en:aspell,myspell,ispell
       en_UK:myspell,aspell,ispell
       fr:myspell,ispell:aspell

DIRECTORIES IMPORTANT TO ENCHANT

       Unless configured otherwise, Enchant's Myspell, Ispell, and Uspell backends will look for dictionaries in
       directories specific to Enchant, and will not use your system-wide installed dictionaries.  This  is  for
       pragmatic reasons since many distributions install these dictionaries into different locations.

       Like  the  enchant.ordering  file  described  above,  Enchant  looks  in  the  global directory for these
       dictionaries and a per-user directory.  The per-user directory takes precedence if it is found.   Enchant
       looks  for  Myspell dictionaries in $(datadir)/enchant/myspell and ~/.enchant/myspell.  Enchant looks for
       Ispell dictionaries  in  $(datadir)/enchant/ispell  and  ~/.enchant/ispell.   Enchant  looks  for  Uspell
       dictionaries in $(datadir)/enchant/uspell and ~/.enchant/uspell.

       Packagers  and  users  may  wish  to  make  symbolic links to the system-wide dictionary directories. Or,
       preferably, use the --with-myspell-dir, --with-ispell-dir, and --with-uspell-dir 'configure' arguments.

MORE INFORMATION

       http://www.abisource.com/enchant/

SEE ALSO

       aspell(1), ispell(1),

AUTHOR

        Dom Lachowicz
        WEB: http://www.abisource.com/enchant/
        MAIL: domlachowicz@gmail.com

enchant                                             July 2006                                         ENCHANT(1)