diff --git a/source/_posts/spellcheck-language-ghostwriter.md b/source/_posts/spellcheck-language-ghostwriter.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c06e6f4 --- /dev/null +++ b/source/_posts/spellcheck-language-ghostwriter.md @@ -0,0 +1,95 @@ +--- +title: Change spellcheck language in Ghostwriter +date: 2018-10-14 00:00:00 +tags: +--- +Ghostwriter is a Markdown editor with html preview. Previously I used [StackEdit](https://stackedit.io/app), but it's web-based. + +Ghostwriter has built-in US English spellcheck. It supports [Hunspell](https://hunspell.github.io/) dictionaries for other languages. + + + +To install other languages is easy, for Danish: + +```bash +$ sudo apt install hunspell-da +``` + +Substitute `apt` with your distro's package manager. In Ghostwriter, go to Settings > Preferences > Spell Check (tab), and select the desired language. You might need to toggle the spellcheck or switch the language back and forth for it to work. + +Here is a list of Hunspell dictionaries in Ubuntu (18.04) repo: + +Package | Language +--- | --- +hunspell-af | Afrikaans +hunspell-an | Aragonese +hunspell-ar | Arabic +hunspell-be | Belarusian +hunspell-bg | Bulgarian +hunspell-bn | Bengali +hunspell-bo | Classical Tibetan language +hunspell-br | Breton language +hunspell-bs | Bosnian +hunspell-ca | Catalan +hunspell-cs | Czech +hunspell-da | Danish +hunspell-de-at | Austrian (German) +hunspell-de-at-frami | German (Austria) +hunspell-de-ch | Swiss (German) +hunspell-de-ch-frami | German (Switzerland) +hunspell-de-de | German +hunspell-de-de-frami | German +hunspell-de-med | German medical +hunspell-dz | Dzongkha language +hunspell-el | Modern Greek +hunspell-en-au | English (Australia) +hunspell-en-ca | English (Canada) +hunspell-en-gb | English (GB) +hunspell-en-med | English medical +hunspell-en-us | English (US) +hunspell-en-za | English (South Africa) +hunspell-es | Spanish +hunspell-eu | Basque (Euskera) +hunspell-fr | French +hunspell-fr-classical | French +hunspell-fr-comprehensive | French +hunspell-fr-modern | French +hunspell-fr-revised | French +hunspell-gd | Scottish Gaelic +hunspell-gl | Galician +hunspell-gl-es | Galician +hunspell-gu | Gujarati +hunspell-gug | Guarani +hunspell-he | Hebrew +hunspell-hi | Hindi +hunspell-hr | Croatian +hunspell-hu | Hungarian +hunspell-is | Icelandic +hunspell-it | Italian +hunspell-kk | Kazakh +hunspell-kmr | Kurmanji +hunspell-ko | Korean +hunspell-lo | Laotian +hunspell-lt | Lithuanian +hunspell-ml | Malayalam +hunspell-ne | Nepalese +hunspell-nl | Dutch +hunspell-no | Norwegian +hunspell-oc | Occitan +hunspell-pl | Polish +hunspell-pt-br | Brazilian Portuguese +hunspell-pt-pt | Portuguese +hunspell-ro | Romanian +hunspell-ru | Russian +hunspell-se | North Sámi Hunspell +hunspell-si | Sinhala +hunspell-sk | Slovak +hunspell-sl | Slovene +hunspell-sr | Serbian +hunspell-sv | Swedish +hunspell-sw | Swahili +hunspell-te | Telugu +hunspell-th | Thai +hunspell-uk | Ukrainian +hunspell-uz | Uzbek +hunspell-vi | Vietnamese