[OS X TeX] install spell checking dictionary for Bulgarian

Sat Jun 5 17:18:01 EDT 2021

On Sat, Jun 5, 2021 at 10:15 PM David Derbes <derbes.physics at gmail.com>
wrote:

> To follow on, I have on occasion typed up Russian papers with the Russian
> language selected in Language & Region. The misspelled Russian words show
> up in TeXShop with a red underline, though I have not installed any Russian
> dictionaries.
>

Russian language seem more important by Apple and they included spelling
dictionaries for it. Not for Bulgarian.

On Jun 5, 2021, at 3:08 PM, Ettore Aldrovandi <ealdrov at math.fsu.edu> wrote:
>
> Hi Roussanka,
>
> incidentally, I think Aquamacs can tap into the system spell checker.
> Anyway, it seems you have some aspell in your system. If it was properly
> installed, you should have about 739 files under
> /usr/local/lib/aspell-0.60. If bg.* is Bulgarian, I have:
>
> *aspell-0.60*> ls -1 bg*
> bg.dat
> bg.multi
> bg.rws
> bg_affix.dat
> bg_phonet.dat
>
> (I installed aspell with HomeBrew for use with the other Emacs.app.)
>
> But a more general question is: if you add Bulgarian to your “Language &
> Region” tab under System Preferences is it not picked up by both TexShop
> and Aquamacs?
>
>
Yes, I had and have it, for long time: but that is for the keyboard, i.e.,
for the virtual Bulgarian keyboard. It works in Aquamacs and TeXShop, Mail,
Messages, etc. Spell checking somehow works in most programs, except for
.tex files in TexShop and Aquamacs. If I try to type bulgarian text with
the transliteration of cyrrilic in latin, I get funny autocorrections in my
messages to my daughter, esp. when I'm sleepy and type without reading what
is autho-corrected:

Roussanka

> Hope this helps,
> —Ettore
>
>
> On Jun 5, 2021, at 12:10, Roussanka Loukanova <rl.stpuu at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Best Regards,
> Roussanka
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, Jun 5, 2021 at 5:58 PM Roussanka Loukanova <rl.stpuu at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Herb,
>>
>> On Sat, Jun 5, 2021 at 5:27 PM Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Howdy,
>>>
>>> Are you installing for use with cocoAspell? If so you can't ise the
>>> ispell dictionries. You can pick up dictionaries for aspell 0.60 (which is
>>> used by cocoAspell) at <https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/aspell/dict/0index.html>.
>>> Assuming you are using version 2.5 (that's the last version created quite a
>>> few years ago) follow the directions in
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> for installation of the dictionary. You don't need `Stuffit Expander'
>>> just double click the .tar.bz2 file and it should expand to a folder.
>>>
>>> PS: that document is just the Readme file from the cocoAspell 2.5
>>> distribution.
>>>
>>> PPS: cocoAspell hasn't been updated in a very long time and is getting a
>>> bit long in the tooth. One of these days it will no longer work and every
>>> time there is a major macOS update I'm apprehensive. If there is someone
>>> out there with Apple programming experience who is interested in Spell
>>> Checkers and who might be interested in the project for ``fun'' there is a
>>> GIT project at <https://github.com/leuski/cocoAspell>.
>>>
>>>
>> I've been trying to use ispell or what is the default spell checking
>> program on the Mac / TexShop / Aquamacs. I though it is via ispell, for
>> TexShop, because:
>>
>> Aquamacs has LaTeX aware spell checking, by Mac / Apple spelling program,
>> with ispell-program-name NSSpellChecker, via ispell interface of Emacs.
>>
>> No, I do not have cocoAspell. I lost it when I tried to update it from
>> leuski's website. It's indeed very old and I would prefer what TeXShop and
>> Aquamacs use. And that is why I picked up
>> ispell-bg-4.2
>> from:
>> https://sourceforge.net/projects/bgoffice/files/Ispell%20BG/
>> (nothing there is specifically for Mac)
>>
>> If you would recommend cocoAspell, I'll try to install it.
>>
>
> It seems I have some aspell. Shall I download and try the dictionary:
>  <https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/aspell/dict/0index.html>
>  But I already tried it a few months ago, and it didn't work.
>
> PIus, I do not know how  I would be switching between what is the default
> spelling program in TeXShop and in Aquamacs, which I think is the same: ispell-program-name
> NSSpellChecker
>
> /usr $ find . -name "*aspell*"
> find: ./sbin/authserver: Permission denied
> ./local/bin/aspell-import
> ./local/bin/aspell
> ./local/bin/run-with-aspell
> ./local/include/aspell.h
> ./local/etc/aspell.conf
> ./local/lib/libaspell.15.dylib
> ./local/lib/libaspell.dylib
> ./local/lib/libaspell.la
> ./local/lib/aspell-0.60
>
> ./local/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/doc/latex/latex2e-help-texinfo/aspell.en.pws
>
> ./local/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/doc/latex/latex2e-help-texinfo-fr/aspell.fr.pws
> ./local/share/man/man1/aspell-import.1
> ./local/share/man/man1/run-with-aspell.1
> ./local/share/man/man1/aspell.1
> ./local/share/info/aspell-dev.info
> ./local/share/info/aspell.info
>
> Roussanka
>
>> Thanks!
>> Roussanka
>>
>
>
>
>> Good Luck,
>>>
>>> Herb Schulz
>>> herbs at wideopenwest.com
>>>
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