SYNOPSIS
- POFileSpell [OPTION] [...] [FILE] [...]
INTRODUCTION
COMMAND LINE OPTIONS
- --help or -h
- show usage instructions
- --interactive or -i
- interactive mode, iterate through the spelling errors using a text mode interface; see the Interactive Mode section
- --overview or -o
- generate an overview file, grouping by error and not by file
- --dict=file or -d file
- load a file with a list of words to consider correct; can be used multiple times
- --batch-add=file
- load a file with a list of words to add to the X-POFile-SpellExtra section of each of the target PO files; can be used multiple times; when used, the actual spelling process is not run
- --command=command
- the command used for actually spell checking the text, by default aspell --encoding=utf-8 -l; if you want to use ispell, try something like --comand="ispell -l" or --comand="iconv -t iso-8859-1 | ispell -l"
INTERACTIVE MODE
In interactive mode you iterate through each of the errors found. In each prompt you can press a to add the word to a file's X-POFile-SpellExtra entry, n to ignore all further errors from this file, Enter to ignore this error or, if you are using one or more dictionary files, the number of the file (1, 2, ...) to add the word to that dictionary file.
PO FILE HEADER DIRECTIVES
POFileSpell recognizes one PO file header directive. As with all gettext lint tools, this directive is prefixed with X-POFile.
- X-POFile-SpellExtra: word
- adds the word to the file's list of accepted words
DICTIONARY FILE FORMAT
Dictionary files are just lists of words, one on each line. For example:
word 1 word 2 word n
MORE INFORMATION
gettext-lint web page: http://gettext-lint.sourceforge.net/