I get some weird and annoying but otherwise ignorable effects. In TeXShop, I select the dictionary "English (United States) " in TeXShop Preferences. In the Spelling Preference Pane I select "English (United States) ” dictionary, check the TeX/LaTeX filter checked, and use all the default settings otherwise. I use CocoAspell for my spell checker because it recognizes TeX/LaTex.
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If you know how to resolve this, give me a shout. This time things are at the right place, and the command line to create dictionary found all the right files to work… but it just hangs there. I uninstalled cocoAspell to the best of my ability (there is no installer, and again, the files were scattered all over the place), and installed GNU Aspell using MacPorts. What it uses seem to have no relationship with what the command line ASpell reports, and dictionary creation (following ASpell manual) was a no go. CocoAspell, however, have tangled config files in multiple directories under both usr/local/lib and ~/Library/. Direct insertion into the personal word list doesn’t seem to work**, so the task becomes one of converting the plain-text word-list into a. I started with the very nice chemistry dictionary word-list. This turned out rather non-trivial, and I still have no idea how this is done after hacking away for hours. What we need is an add-on dictionary that has the vocabulary from the specialized discipline. With LaTeX syntax no longer highlighted as mistakes, the battle is half won. The default is “automatically select language”, which means aSpell is installed but not used.Ĭreating and Installing a Specialized Dictionary (no go?) You can do this through Edit -> Show Spelling and Grammar. A note here: if installing cocoAspell does not seem to have any effect, check that TeXshop (or other applications cocoAspell is a system-wide service) are indeed using aSpell as the checker. When the TeX/LaTeX box is checked (as seen in the figure), the LaTeX instructions should no longer be underlined… Filter check-boxes ( B) let you decide what should not be spell-checked.
The language selection pane ( A) let you choose from the list of dictionaries that come installed with cocoAspell, and you can use multiple of them. It requires a reload of the system preference pane to open, after which dictionaries can be chosen: After installation, you’ll find an extra icon ( A) under System Preferences: Installing CocoAspellĬocoAspell (2.1) is installed with a. I tried out Excalibur as well, but the standalone spell-check just doesn’t do it for me. I think both are possible using Anton Leuski’s cocoAspell, but the latter is less straight-forward than the former. extend the dictionary to include discipline specific vocabulary (chemistry, in my case).exclude LaTeX instructions from being spell-checked, and.Between keywords and specialized vocabulary, just about every word is underlined: TeXshop makes use of the default spell-check service of OSX, and this is somewhat problematic when you’re writing manuscripts.
How to spell-check a LaTeX document with specialized dictionary in TeXShop.
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