Re: [Aspell-user] Having trouble adding wordlists

[Kevin Atkinson]

On Sun, 11 Apr 2004, Rivka of CoE wrote:

> I've been spending the past several hours trying to add a wordlist to 
> aspell, but am having no luck. I have a simple file with 6 simple words in 
> it, named text.lst.  Each word is on a new line. I try the following 
> command:
> 
> aspell --lang=en create master ./test < /usr/src/aspell/test.lst
> 
> And get the following error:
> 
> ' may not appear at the end of a word.

Because you have a word that ends in ' as it says and Aspell doesn't allow 
this.  Remove the words.  Or if you really want them modify en.dat (use 
"aspell config data-dir" to find it) and modify the special line to read:
  special ' -**

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