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NAME
       Enchant - a spellchecker

SYNOPSIS
       enchant [-a] [-l] [-L] [-v]

DESCRIPTION
       Enchant is an ispell-compatible spellchecker.

   OPTIONS
       -a     List alternatives.

       -l     List only the misspellings.

       -L     Include the line number in the output.

       -v     Prints the program's version.

ENCHANT ORDERING FILE
       Enchant  has a global and a per-user ordering file named enchant.ordering.  It lets the user specify which spelling back-
       end to use for individual languages in the case when you care which backend gets used. The  global  file  is  located  in
       $(datadir)/enchant and the per-user file is located in ~/.enchant.  The per-user file takes precedence, if found.

       The  ordering  file  takes the form language_tag:<comma-separated list of spelling backends>. I am currently aware of the
       following backends: aspell, myspell, ispell, uspell, hspell, voikko, and zemberek. '*' is used to mean "use this ordering
       for all languages, unless instructed otherwise." For example:

       *:aspell,myspell,ispell
       en:aspell,myspell,ispell
       en_UK:myspell,aspell,ispell
       fr:myspell,ispell:aspell

DIRECTORIES IMPORTANT TO ENCHANT
       Unless  configured  otherwise,  Enchant's  Myspell, Ispell, and Uspell backends will look for dictionaries in directories
       specific to Enchant, and will not use your system-wide installed dictionaries. This is for pragmatic reasons  since  many
       distributions install these dictionaries into different locations.

       Like  the  enchant.ordering file described above, Enchant looks in the global directory for these dictionaries and a per-
       user directory.  The per-user directory takes precedence if it is found.   Enchant  looks  for  Myspell  dictionaries  in
       $(datadir)/enchant/myspell  and  ~/.enchant/myspell.   Enchant looks for Ispell dictionaries in $(datadir)/enchant/ispell
       and ~/.enchant/ispell.  Enchant looks for Uspell dictionaries in $(datadir)/enchant/uspell and ~/.enchant/uspell.

       Packagers and users may wish to make symbolic links to the system-wide dictionary directories. Or,  preferably,  use  the
       --with-myspell-dir, --with-ispell-dir, and --with-uspell-dir 'configure' arguments.

MORE INFORMATION
       http://www.abisource.com/enchant/

SEE ALSO
       aspell(1), ispell(1),

AUTHOR
        Dom Lachowicz
        WEB: http://www.abisource.com/enchant/
        MAIL: domlachowiczATgmail.com



enchant                                                     July 2006                                                 ENCHANT(1)