Installing spell checker in TeXworks is going to be straightforward after I write this note.
The dicttionary for TeXworks is located at:
/Users/gajab/Library/TeXworks/dictionaries
where gajab is your username.
The dictionary worked nicely after I restarted the TeXworks.
The dicttionary for TeXworks is located at:
/Users/gajab/Library/TeXworks/dictionaries
where gajab is your username.
- I went to the site:
http://code.google.com/p/texworks/wiki/SpellingDictionaries
and got the clue that
One easy source of dictionaries is the OpenOffice.org project, which uses the same spelling engine. There is a list of available dictionaries at http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Dictionaries (see the All Language Packs download, or links to individual language dictionaries). Note that TeXworks only uses the spelling dictionaries (*.dic and *.aff) for each language ...
- So I downloaded the dictionary file from
http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/dictionaries
It is located currently at:
http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/project/en_US-dict
- However, the file is saved as .oxt. I simply renamed the package as a zip file
en_US.oxt >> en_US.zip
and unzipped the package (well, double click and rename along with the extension. It warns, but you can change the extension). It worked!!
The package contains:
META-INF description.xml en_US.aff info
README_en_US.txt dictionaries.xcu en_US.dic
- WE only need .dic and .aff files. So I copied it to the library folder for the TeXworks.
cp ~/Downloads/en_US/en_US.aff /Users/gajab/Library/TeXworks/dictionaries
cp ~/Downloads/en_US/en_US.dic /Users/gajab/Library/TeXworks/dictionaries
cp ~/Downloads/en_US/en_US.dic /Users/gajab/Library/TeXworks/dictionaries
The dictionary worked nicely after I restarted the TeXworks.
