Title: Aspell to check spelling

	Title: Aspell to check spelling
	Author: Solène
	Date: 12 February 2019
	Tags: unix
	Description:

	I never used a command line utility to check the spelling in my texts
	because I
	did not know how to do. After taking five minutes to learn how to do
	it, I feel
	guilty about not having used it before as it is really simple.

	First, you want to install aspell package, which may be already there
	pulled as
	a dependency. In order to proceed on OpenBSD it's easy:

	# pkg_add aspell

	I will only explain how to use it on text files. I think it is possible
	to have
	some integration with text editors but then, it would be more relevant
	to check
	out the editor documentation.

	If I want to check the spelling in my file draft.txt it is as simple
	as:

	$ aspell -l en_EN -c draft.txt

	The parameter `-l en_EN` will depend of your locale, I have fr_FR.UTF-8
	so aspell
	uses it by default if I don't enforce another language. With this
	command, aspell
	will make an interactive display in the terminal

	The output looks like this, with the word ful highlighted which I
	can not
	render in my article.


	It's ful of mistakkes!


	2) foul 7) fl
	3) fuel 8) UL
	4) full 9) fol
	5) furl 0) fur
	i) Ignore I) Ignore all
	r) Replace R) Replace all
	a) Add l) Add Lower
	b) Abort x) Exit


	I am asked how I want to resolve the issue with ful, as I wanted to
	write
	full, I will type 4 and aspell will replace the word ful with
	full.
	This will automatically jump to the next error found, mistakkes in
	my case:


	It's full of mistakkes!


	2) mistake's 7) mistimes
	3) mistake 8) mistypes
	4) mistaken 9) stake's
	5) stakes 0) Mintaka's
	i) Ignore I) Ignore all
	r) Replace R) Replace all
	a) Add l) Add Lower
	b) Abort x) Exit


	and it will continue until there are no errors left, then the file is
	saved
	with the changes.

	I will use aspell everyday from now.