Veronica Berglyd Olsen
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.. _docs_more_dictionaries:
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Spell Check Dictionaries
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.. _Enchant: https://rrthomas.github.io/enchant/
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.. _Free Desktop: https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/dictionaries/tree/
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Spell checking is provided by the Enchant_ library. Depending on your operating system, it may or
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may not load all installed spell check dictionaries automatically.
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Linux and MacOS
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On Linux and MacOS, you generally only have to install hunspell, aspell or myspell dictionaries on
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your system like you do for other applications. See your distro or OS documentation for how to do
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this. These dictionaries should show up as available spell check languages in novelWriter.
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Windows
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For Windows, English is included with the installation. For other languages you have to download
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and add dictionaries yourself.
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**Install Tool**
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A small tool to assist with this can be found under **Tools > Add Dictionaries**. It will import
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spell checking dictionaries from Free Office or Libre Office extensions. The dictionaries are then
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installed in the install location for the Enchant library and should thus work for any application
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that uses Enchant for spell checking.
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**Manual Install**
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If you prefer to do this manually or want to use a different source than the ones mentioned above,
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You need to get compatible dictionary files for your language. You need two files files ending with
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``.aff`` and ``.dic``. These files must then be copied to the following location:
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``C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\enchant\hunspell``
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This assumes your user profile is stored at ``C:\Users\<USER>``. The last one or two folders may
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not exist, so you may need to create them.
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You can find the various dictionaries on the `Free Desktop`_ website.
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.. note::
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The Free Desktop link points to a repository, and what may look like file links inside the
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dictionary folder are actually links to web pages. If you right-click and download those, you
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get HTML files, not dictionaries!
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In order to download the actual dictionary files, right-click the "plain" label at the end of
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each line and download that.
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