ENCHANT-2

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
ISPELL COMPATIBILITY
FILES AND DIRECTORIES
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR

NAME

Enchant - a spellchecker

SYNOPSIS

enchant-2 -a|-l|-h|-v [-L] [-d DICTIONARY] [FILE]

DESCRIPTION

Enchant is an Ispell-compatible spellchecker. Note that unlike Ispell, it does not have an interactive mode; it is designed to be used by other programs. Enchant requires its input to be UTF-8.
-d
DICTIONARY

use the given dictionary

-p WORDLIST

use the given personal wordlist

-a

list suggestions in Ispell pipe mode format

-l

list only the misspellings

-L

display line numbers

-h

display help and exit

-v

display version information and exit

ISPELL COMPATIBILITY

Enchant does not implement the following Ispell commands and command-line options. They are all accepted, but ignored, and have no effect.

-m

-B

-C

+

Enter TeX mode

-

Enter nroff mode (the default)

˜

Set parameters based on file name

Enter verbose-correction mode

FILES AND DIRECTORIES

See enchant(5) for details of configuration files and personal word lists.

SEE ALSO

enchant(5), aspell(1), enchant-lsmod-2(1)

AUTHOR

Written by Dom Lachowicz and Reuben Thomas.