1 cfa37a7b 2004-04-10 devnull .TH SPELL 1
3 cfa37a7b 2004-04-10 devnull spell, sprog \- find spelling errors
4 cfa37a7b 2004-04-10 devnull .SH SYNOPSIS
7 cfa37a7b 2004-04-10 devnull .I options
17 cfa37a7b 2004-04-10 devnull .I options
23 cfa37a7b 2004-04-10 devnull .SH DESCRIPTION
25 cfa37a7b 2004-04-10 devnull looks up words from the named
27 cfa37a7b 2004-04-10 devnull (standard input default)
28 cfa37a7b 2004-04-10 devnull in a spelling list and places
29 cfa37a7b 2004-04-10 devnull possible misspellings\(emwords
30 cfa37a7b 2004-04-10 devnull not sanctioned there\(emon the standard output.
33 cfa37a7b 2004-04-10 devnull ignores constructs of
34 d32deab1 2020-08-16 rsc .MR troff (1)
35 cfa37a7b 2004-04-10 devnull and its standard preprocessors.
36 cfa37a7b 2004-04-10 devnull It understands these options:
39 cfa37a7b 2004-04-10 devnull Check British spelling.
42 cfa37a7b 2004-04-10 devnull Print all words not literally in the spelling list, with
43 cfa37a7b 2004-04-10 devnull derivations.
46 cfa37a7b 2004-04-10 devnull Print, marked with
48 cfa37a7b 2004-04-10 devnull every stem as it is looked up in the spelling list,
49 cfa37a7b 2004-04-10 devnull along with its affix classes.
51 cfa37a7b 2004-04-10 devnull As a matter of policy,
53 cfa37a7b 2004-04-10 devnull does not admit multiple spellings of the same word.
54 cfa37a7b 2004-04-10 devnull Variants that follow general rules are preferred
55 cfa37a7b 2004-04-10 devnull over those that don't, even when the unruly spelling is
56 cfa37a7b 2004-04-10 devnull more common.
57 cfa37a7b 2004-04-10 devnull Thus, in American usage, `modelled', `sizeable', and `judgment' are
58 cfa37a7b 2004-04-10 devnull rejected in favor of `modeled', `sizable', and `judgement'.
59 cfa37a7b 2004-04-10 devnull Agglutinated variants are shunned: `crewmember' and `backyard'
60 cfa37a7b 2004-04-10 devnull cede to `crew member' and `back yard' (noun) or `back-yard'
61 cfa37a7b 2004-04-10 devnull (adjective).
62 cfa37a7b 2004-04-10 devnull .SH FILES
64 c3674de4 2005-01-11 devnull .B \*9/lib/amspell
65 cfa37a7b 2004-04-10 devnull American spelling list
67 c3674de4 2005-01-11 devnull .B \*9/lib/brspell
68 cfa37a7b 2004-04-10 devnull British spelling list
70 c8b6342d 2005-01-13 devnull .B \*9/bin/sprog
71 cfa37a7b 2004-04-10 devnull The actual spelling checker.
72 cfa37a7b 2004-04-10 devnull It expects one word per line on standard input,
73 cfa37a7b 2004-04-10 devnull and takes the same arguments as
74 cfa37a7b 2004-04-10 devnull .IR spell .
75 cfa37a7b 2004-04-10 devnull .SH SOURCE
76 c3674de4 2005-01-11 devnull .TF \*9/src/cmd/spell
78 c3674de4 2005-01-11 devnull .B \*9/bin/spell
79 cfa37a7b 2004-04-10 devnull the script
81 c3674de4 2005-01-11 devnull .B \*9/src/cmd/spell
82 cfa37a7b 2004-04-10 devnull source for
84 cfa37a7b 2004-04-10 devnull .SH SEE ALSO
85 d32deab1 2020-08-16 rsc .MR deroff (1)
87 cfa37a7b 2004-04-10 devnull The heuristics of
88 d32deab1 2020-08-16 rsc .MR deroff (1)
89 cfa37a7b 2004-04-10 devnull used to excise formatting information are imperfect.
91 cfa37a7b 2004-04-10 devnull The spelling list's coverage is uneven;
92 cfa37a7b 2004-04-10 devnull in particular biology, medicine, and chemistry, and
93 cfa37a7b 2004-04-10 devnull perforce proper names,
94 cfa37a7b 2004-04-10 devnull not to mention languages other than English,
95 cfa37a7b 2004-04-10 devnull are covered very lightly.
