[OS X TeX] Personal dictionaris in CocoAspell

[Don Green Dragon]

Hello Herb,

Once again, I’ve been saved! Hallelujah!  :-)  See below please.



On 27Aug2014, at 1:46 PM, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com> wrote:

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> On Aug 27, 2014, at 2:30 PM, Don Green Dragon <fergdc at Shaw.ca> wrote:
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>> On 25Aug2014, at 11:32 AM, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com> wrote:
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>>> On Aug 25, 2014, at 12:13 PM, Don Green Dragon <fergdc at shaw.ca> wrote:
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>>>> Hi Herb, 
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>>>> On 22Aug2014, at 6:44 PM, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com> wrote:
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>>>>> <<snip>>
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>>>>>> In view of the fact that you are familiar with Excalibur, I hope you will explain a couple of points. 
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>>>>>> As Excalibur has been referred to as ``an external spellchecker’’ I conclude that you apply it to a LaTeX source file, say Example.tex, by opening Excalibur and telling it to check Example.tex. Correct?
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>>>>>> Say Excalibur finds an error which you agree with and you tell it to make the correction, then the content  of Example.tex is changed. Can those changes be made when  TeXShop has already opened Example.tex or does one have to quite TeXShop before applying Excalibur? At what point are the changes to Example.tex saved?
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>>>>>> I’ve just installed CocoAspell but have not used TeXShop to check it out!
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>>>>>> <<snip>>
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>>>>>> don green dragon
>>>>>> fergdc at shaw.ca
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> Howdy,
> 
> It doesn't mark those on my system. I suspect you don't have it completely set up

I suspect that you were right.

> First go to System Preferences and open the Spelling preference pane. On the Dictionaries tab make sure that the English dictionary is checked (the Name: should be English [variant_0]), make the Suggestions mode: Normal and make sure the TeX/LaTeX filter is checked (I also check the URL and E-mail filters).
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> Second, in TeXShop click on Edit->Show Spelling and Grammar and choose English (Aspell) from the popup menu.
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> Let me know if that doesn't work since there may be one more thing to do.

I followed the above and there is a big difference in the performance. I had chosen a different dictionary, a Canadian one, and I had not activated TeX/LaTeX in the Spelling pane. Also in TeXShop I had not chosen the Aspell option.


\emph and \tikz and \tikzpicture and a couple of other things are still underlined in red but a lot of underlines have disappeared, hence I conclude that CocoAspell is doing its job. However, I see now that when I move to

Edit->Show Spelling and Grammar

someone questions me about certain spellings. So I told it to `Learn’ «emph» but they are still underlined.

How do you remember all these details?????? Thanks.


don green dragon
fergdc at shaw.ca