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1.1 root 1: .TH SPELL 1 "12 September 1983"
2: .SH NAME
3: spell, spellin, spellout \- find spelling errors
4: .SH SYNOPSIS
5: .B spell
6: [
7: .B \-v
8: ] [
9: .B \-b
10: ] [
11: .B \-x
12: ] [
13: .B \-d
14: hlist ] [
15: .B \-s
16: hstop ] [
17: .B \-h
18: spellhist
19: ] [ file ] ...
20: .PP
21: .B spellin
22: [ list ]
23: .PP
24: .B spellout
25: [
26: .B \-d
27: ] list
28: .SH DESCRIPTION
29: .I Spell
30: collects words from the named documents,
31: and looks them up in a spelling list.
32: Words that neither occur among nor are derivable
33: (by applying certain inflections,
34: prefixes or suffixes) from words in the spelling list
35: are printed on the standard output.
36: If no files are named,
37: words are collected from the standard input.
38: .PP
39: .I Spell
40: ignores most
41: .I troff,
42: .I tbl
43: and
44: .IR eqn (1)
45: constructions.
46: .PP
47: Under the
48: .B \-v
49: option, all words not literally in the spelling list are printed,
50: and plausible derivations from spelling list words are indicated.
51: .PP
52: Under the
53: .B \-b
54: option, British spelling is checked.
55: Besides preferring
56: .ft I
57: centre, colour, speciality, travelled,
58: .ft R
59: etc.,
60: this option insists upon
61: .I -ise
62: in words like
63: .I standardise,
64: Fowler and the OED to the contrary notwithstanding.
65: .PP
66: Under the
67: .B \-x
68: option, every plausible stem is printed with `=' for each word.
69: .PP
70: The spelling list is based on many sources.
71: While it is more haphazard than an ordinary
72: dictionary, it is also more effective with
73: proper names and popular technical words.
74: Coverage of
75: the specialized vocabularies of biology,
76: medicine and chemistry is light.
77: .PP
78: The auxiliary files used for the spelling list,
79: stop list, and history file may be specified by
80: arguments following the
81: .BR \-d ,
82: .BR \-s ,
83: and
84: .B \-h
85: options.
86: The default files are indicated below.
87: Copies of all output
88: may be accumulated in the history file.
89: The stop list filters out misspellings (e.g. thier=thy\-y+ier)
90: that would otherwise pass.
91: .PP
92: Two routines help maintain the hash lists used by
93: .I spell.
94: Both expect a set of words, one per line,
95: from the standard input.
96: .I Spellin
97: combines the words from the standard input and the
98: preexisting
99: .I list
100: file and places a new list on the standard output.
101: If no
102: .I list
103: file is specified, the new list is created from scratch.
104: .I Spellout
105: looks up each word from the standard input and prints
106: on the standard output
107: those that are missing from (or present on, with
108: option
109: .BR \-d )
110: the hashed
111: .I list
112: file.
113: For example, to verify that
114: .I hookey
115: is not on the default spelling list, add it to your own
116: private list, and then use it with
117: .IR spell ,
118: .PP
119: .RS
120: .nf
121: echo hookey | spellout /usr/dict/hlista
122: echo hookey | spellin /usr/dict/hlista > myhlist
123: spell \-d myhlist huckfinn
124: .RE
125: .SH FILES
1.1.1.2 ! root 126: .nf
! 127: /usr/dict/hlist[ab] hashed spelling lists, American &
! 128: British, default for \fB-d\fR
! 129: /usr/dict/hstop hashed stop list, default for \fB-s\fR
! 130: /dev/null history file, default for \fB-h\fR
! 131: /tmp/spell.$$\(** temporary files
1.1 root 132: /usr/lib/spell
133: .br
134: .SH SEE ALSO
135: deroff(1), sort(1), tee(1), sed(1)
136: .SH BUGS
137: The spelling list's coverage is uneven;
138: new installations will probably wish to
139: monitor the output for several months to gather
140: local additions.
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