[OS X TeX] install spell checking dictionary for Bulgarian

[Roussanka Loukanova]

Hi Herb,

MacteXtras is a non-exhaustive conglomerate of extra applications, etc.,
> that might be of use for TeXers. It was never meant to be kept once you get
> what you find useful from it.
>

I see that  there is an installation package in the TeX directory
1444253 Nov  7  2016 cocoAspell.pkg

Could it be Version 2.5, the same as that from MacTeXtras?
By the pdfs in that directory, it seems so. To avoid downloading MacTeXtras.

About ispell / NSSpellCheck: which choice for English is good? In:
System Preferences > Keyboard > Text > Spelling

I've selected British English. But the spell checking often misses obviously
misspelled words.

For the ispell dictionaries for Bulgarian, I  tried to follow the
instruction about adding a new spelling dictionary, by guesses:

I copied the .aff and .dict files from ispell-bg-4.2/data/ to
~/Library/Spelling
and changed the 2nd suffix to .dic,

At first, there was no effect. But after a few restarts of the Mac (just by
going away from it), and then doing some tests (for aspell), I saw
"bulgarian (Library)" in the pull-down list of languages available under
Spelling.

It seems to me that macOS converted these dictionary files into machine
code, i.e., installed them, in between restarts., at least at the beginning.

I read in the documentation of the directory ispell-bg-4.2, that
"bulgarian" is the secondary name and "bg" is the 1st one, in some of the
code. I renamed the files, and that was a great trick:
bulgarian.aff > bg.aff
bulgarian.dict > bulgarian.dic > bg.dic
The name, expanded into cyrrilic, "Български (Library)", appeared in the
list under Spelling!
But the spell checking is very poor. At least it underlines some misspelled
words, only while typing them, and in most cases, doesn't suggest
corrections. Obviously, the dictionary is incomplete.

I hope that somebody will get an updated version of cocoAspell, or Aspell
for Mac, properly, and with instructions, what-where-how. And how to
uninstall cleanly, in need.

Best Regards,
Roussanka


> Sigh... only you can know where things went when you compiled aspell.
>
> I hope all this can get resolved.
>
> Good Luck,
>
> Herb Schulz
> herbs at wideopenwest.com
>
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