source: general/genlib/enchant.xml@ 3b9ea00

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  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
  %general-entities;

  <!ENTITY enchant-download-http "https://github.com/AbiWord/enchant/releases/download/v&enchant-version;/enchant-&enchant-version;.tar.gz">
  <!ENTITY enchant-download-ftp  " ">
  <!ENTITY enchant-md5sum        "0344871b4770c4f9f549b05734881f4e">
  <!ENTITY enchant-size          "932 KB">
  <!ENTITY enchant-buildsize     "7.4 MB">
  <!ENTITY enchant-time          "0.2 SBU">
]>

<sect1 id="enchant" xreflabel="enchant-&enchant-version;">
  <?dbhtml filename="enchant.html"?>

  <sect1info>
    <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
    <date>$Date$</date>
  </sect1info>

  <title>enchant-&enchant-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="enchant">
    <primary sortas="a-enchant">enchant</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title>Introduction to enchant</title>

    <para>The <application>enchant</application> package provide a generic
    interface into various existing spell checking libraries.</para>

    &lfs84_checked;

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&enchant-download-http;"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download (FTP): <ulink url="&enchant-download-ftp;"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download MD5 sum: &enchant-md5sum;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download size: &enchant-size;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Estimated disk space required: &enchant-buildsize;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Estimated build time: &enchant-time;</para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">enchant Dependencies</bridgehead>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
    <para role="required"><xref linkend="glib2"/></para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
    <para role="recommended"><xref linkend="aspell"/></para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional"><xref linkend="dbus-glib"/>,
    <ulink url="http://hspell.ivrix.org.il/">Hspell</ulink>,
    <ulink url="http://hunspell.github.io/">Hunspell</ulink>,
    <ulink url="http://hunspell.github.io/">Voikko</ulink>, and
    <ulink url="https://github.com/unittest-cpp/unittest-cpp/releases">unittest-cpp</ulink> (required for tests)</para>

    <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
    <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/enchant"/></para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of enchant</title>

    <para>Install <application>enchant</application> by running the following
    commands:</para>

<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static &amp;&amp;
make</userinput></screen>

    <para>To run tests, unittest-cpp must be installed and the 
    --enable-relocatable option passed to configure above.  If these
    conditions are present, the tests may be run with <command>make 
    check</command>.</para>

    <para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>make install                                   &amp;&amp;
rm -rf /usr/include/enchant                    &amp;&amp;
ln -sfv enchant-2       /usr/include/enchant   &amp;&amp;
ln -sfv enchant-2       /usr/bin/enchant       &amp;&amp;
ln -sfv libenchant-2.so /usr/lib/libenchant.so &amp;&amp;
ln -sfv enchant-2.pc    /usr/lib/pkgconfig/enchant.pc</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="commands">
    <title>Command Explanations</title>

    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
      href="../../xincludes/static-libraries.xml"/>

    <para>
      <command>rm -rf /usr/include/enchant</command>; 
      <command>ln -sfn ...</command>: Create symlinks for this package
      version so that other other packages can find it using the old name.
    </para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="configuration">
    <title>Configuring enchant</title>

    <sect3 id="enchant-config">
      <title>Config Files</title>
      <para><filename>~/.enchant</filename> and
      <filename>/usr/share/enchant/enchant.ordering</filename></para>

      <indexterm zone="enchant enchant-config">
        <primary sortas="e-AA.enchant">~/.enchant</primary>
      </indexterm>

      <indexterm zone="enchant enchant-config">
        <primary
        sortas="e-usr-share-enchant-enchant.ordering">/usr/share/enchant/enchant.ordering</primary>
      </indexterm>
    </sect3>

    <sect3><title>Configuration Information</title>
<!-- 
   Looks like this is not required when installing enchant in the flavor 
   we do above. Leaving it in source (for a while) in case I'm wrong and
   it needs to be restored.
      <para>
        If you wish to use the <xref linkend="aspell"/> backend, create a
        symlink, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
      </para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>ln -svfn ../../lib/aspell /usr/share/enchant/aspell</userinput></screen>
-->
      <para>
        You can test your installation and configuration by creating a test
        file and running the commands in the following (you can replace the
        en_GB dictionary by any other downloaded when installing <xref
        linkend="aspell"/>):
      </para>

<screen><userinput>cat &gt; /tmp/test-enchant.txt &lt;&lt; "EOF"
<literal>Tel me more abot linux
Ther ar so many commads</literal>
EOF

enchant -d en_GB -l /tmp/test-enchant.txt &amp;&amp;
enchant -d en_GB -a /tmp/test-enchant.txt</userinput></screen>

      <para>
        You will see a list of the misspelled words followed by a list of
        alternatives for them.
      </para>

      <para>
        See more details in the enchant manual page.
      </para>

    </sect3>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="content">
    <title>Contents</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>enchant and enchant-lsmod-2</seg>
        <seg>libenchant.so and various backend libraries</seg>
        <seg>/usr/{include,lib,share}/enchant-2</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>

      <varlistentry id="enchant-prog">
        <term><command>enchant</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>is a spellchecker</para>
          <indexterm zone="enchant enchant-prog">
            <primary sortas="b-enchant">enchant</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="enchant-lsmod-2">
        <term><command>enchant-lsmod-2</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>lists available backends, languages, and dictionaries.</para>
          <indexterm zone="enchant enchant-lsmod-2">
            <primary sortas="b-enchant-lsmod-2">enchant-lsmod-2</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="libenchant">
        <term><filename class='libraryfile'>libenchant.so</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>contains spell checking interface API functions.</para>
          <indexterm zone="enchant libenchant">
            <primary sortas="c-libenchant">libenchant.{so,a}</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

</sect1>