Spell Check

Note

This is a first draft.

Typos are annoying –especially if the textx are the source for translation. To avoid typos you can run a spellchecker over both:

Documentation

Code

Messages

Comments

If your preferred editor has none integrated try the instructions here.

Basics

Backends

Basic spellcheckers

• GNU Aspell is one of many spellchecker. Dictionaries for many languages exist.
• Ispell was the anchestor of aspell

Frontends

can use several backends

• Enchant (software)Enchant is a free software project developed as part of the AbiWord word processor with the aim of unifying access to the various existing spell-checker software.
• Hunspell

Doc type specific

Codespell

for program code

xml_spellcheck

is present in package 'perl-XML-Twig'

LANG=${LL} xml_spellcheck ${PART}/${LL}/gnucash-${PART}.xml

like

LANG=C xml_spellcheck help/C/gnucash-help.xml

Without further parameters the page layout gets lost, you need to run xmllint again.

Parameters

--spellchecker <spellchecker>; default "aspell -c"

--pretty_print <optional_pretty_print_style> as defined in XML::Twig