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aspell with more than one dictionary

Hello,

I want to check spelling of a text with german and english words, referring to the manpage of aspell it should be possible to use aspell with more than one dictionary, but I cannot find out the correct syntax.

Code:

aspell --add-extra-dicts=en --extra-dicts=en --mode=html  check mytextfile.txt 

Error: Expected language "de" but got "en".

exits with error.

Does anyone know if this is really possible? and if yes, how can I do it, the appropriate dictionaries are installed.

Code:

aspell dump dicts

de

de_AT

de_CH

de_DE

en

en-variant_0

en-variant_1

en-variant_2

en-w_accents

en-wo_accents

en_CA

en_CA-w_accents

en_CA-wo_accents

en_GB

en_GB-ise

en_GB-ise-w_accents

en_GB-ise-wo_accents

en_GB-ize

en_GB-ize-w_accents

en_GB-ize-wo_accents

en_GB-w_accents

en_GB-wo_accents

en_US

en_US-w_accents

en_US-wo_accents

Thanks in advance

Markus

I have never tried it, but I think this section of the aspell docs might help.

http://aspell.net/man-html/Working-W...h-Dictionaries

The on-line docs seem to go into much greater detail than the man page.

Hi frankbell,

thanks for the answer.

I had already found additional information in the internet, also the texinfo file for aspell is very explanatory. It seems I'll have to read much more about this program.

Markus

You are most welcome. Good luck.