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  1. .TH SPELL 1
  2. .SH NAME
  3. spell, sprog \- find spelling errors
  4. .SH SYNOPSIS
  5. .B spell
  6. [
  7. .I options
  8. ]
  9. \&...
  10. [
  11. .I file
  12. ]
  13. \&...
  14. .PP
  15. .B sprog
  16. [
  17. .I options
  18. ]
  19. [
  20. .B -f
  21. .I file
  22. ]
  23. .SH DESCRIPTION
  24. .I Spell
  25. looks up words from the named
  26. .I files
  27. (standard input default)
  28. in a spelling list and places
  29. possible misspellings\(emwords
  30. not sanctioned there\(emon the standard output.
  31. .PP
  32. .I Spell
  33. ignores constructs of
  34. .IR troff (1)
  35. and its standard preprocessors.
  36. It understands these options:
  37. .TP
  38. .B -b
  39. Check British spelling.
  40. .TP
  41. .B -v
  42. Print all words not literally in the spelling list, with
  43. derivations.
  44. .TP
  45. .B -x
  46. Print, marked with
  47. .LR = ,
  48. every stem as it is looked up in the spelling list,
  49. along with its affix classes.
  50. .PP
  51. As a matter of policy,
  52. .I spell
  53. does not admit multiple spellings of the same word.
  54. Variants that follow general rules are preferred
  55. over those that don't, even when the unruly spelling is
  56. more common.
  57. Thus, in American usage, `modelled', `sizeable', and `judgment' are
  58. rejected in favor of `modeled', `sizable', and `judgement'.
  59. Agglutinated variants are shunned: `crewmember' and `backyard'
  60. cede to `crew member' and `back yard' (noun) or `back-yard'
  61. (adjective).
  62. .SH FILES
  63. .TF /sys/lib/brspell
  64. .TP
  65. .B /sys/lib/amspell
  66. American spelling list
  67. .TP
  68. .B /sys/lib/brspell
  69. British spelling list
  70. .TP
  71. .B /bin/aux/sprog
  72. The actual spelling checker.
  73. It expects one word per line on standard input,
  74. and takes the same arguments as
  75. .IR spell .
  76. .SH SOURCE
  77. .TF /sys/src/cmd/spell
  78. .TP
  79. .B /rc/bin/spell
  80. the script
  81. .TP
  82. .B /sys/src/cmd/spell
  83. source for
  84. .I sprog
  85. .SH SEE ALSO
  86. .IR deroff (1)
  87. .SH BUGS
  88. The heuristics of
  89. .IR deroff (1)
  90. used to excise formatting information are imperfect.
  91. .br
  92. The spelling list's coverage is uneven;
  93. in particular biology, medicine, and chemistry, and
  94. perforce proper names,
  95. not to mention languages other than English,
  96. are covered very lightly.