[OS X TeX] Personal dictionaris in CocoAspell

[Herbert Schulz]

On Aug 30, 2014, at 12:20 PM, Don Green Dragon <fergdc at shaw.ca> wrote:

> Hello Herb,
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> Once again, I’ve been saved! Hallelujah!  :-)  See below please.
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> 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. 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 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?
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 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,
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>> It doesn't mark those on my system. I suspect you don't have it completely set up
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> I suspect that you were right.
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>> 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.
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> 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.
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> \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
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> Edit->Show Spelling and Grammar
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> someone questions me about certain spellings. So I told it to `Learn’ «emph» but they are still underlined.
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> How do you remember all these details?????? Thanks.
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> don green dragon
> fergdc at shaw.ca

Howdy,

You can add more items to the list of commands understood by CocoAspell although I don't understand why \emph isn't recognized. Open System Preferences->Spelling->Filters->TeX/LaTeX to see the list of special commands. To add a command to the list click on the + and go to the bottom of the list to see a command called unknown. Double click the unknown and enter, e.g., emph (note: without \, the backslash). Then click on the braces on the right side to activate the argument setup. A set of [] or {} symbolize an optional or regular argument that shouldn't be spell checked while [√] or {√} are optional or regular arguments that should be spell checked. In the case of emph the regular argument should be spell checked. To enter a √ you press Opt-V (note: if that doesn't work let me know) so you should have {√} on the right hand side.

On the other hand I believe that the default behavior for any command that isn't in that list is to just ignore it and go on; i.e., \emph is NOT on my list but the spell checker doesn't seem to flag it---maybe I put it on the Learn list some time in the past.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)