Texmaker cannot load dictionary

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In texmaker, though I have configured the dictionary, i cannot still check the spelling, any idea??

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I use Texmaker as well. I sometimes tried the check spelling option. But for me it didn't work either. — Dave, Mar 10 '13 at 16:29
Depending on the Version of Texmaker you’re using (the current is 4.0), you might have to restart after switching the dictionary. If that doesn’t help, could you specify what the expected behavior is versus the behavior you’re getting? — doncherry, Mar 10 '13 at 18:47
@Noor Which error? (Don’t forget to @username other users when responding to their comments.) — doncherry, Mar 11 '13 at 03:15
@Noor i have my dictionary at /usr/share/texmaker/en_US.dic its provided by TeXmaker and its working. — texenthusiast, Mar 11 '13 at 03:19
@texenthusiast: I have no such file here with my Ubuntu installation. — juliohm, Sep 21 '13 at 14:16
@juliohm Configure TeXmaker editor Spelling directory checking in in-line http://www.xm1math.net/texmaker/doc.html#SECTION03 — texenthusiast, Sep 22 '13 at 02:51
@texenthusiast, my configuration is correct: /usr/share/myspell/dicts/hyph_en_GB.dic and the inline option is checked. It doesn't work. — juliohm, Sep 24 '13 at 09:14
@juliohm Although I have not much idea what's the issue(may be you are using OO provided myspell check), I suggest use the default spell check provided by TeXmaker first(no need to download or install any custom spell checker), uninstall the TeXmaker fully and update to latest version of TeXmaker 4.0.4 Aug 30 2013 and post any issue with clear demo at issue tracker for more appropriate answer from Author. — texenthusiast, Sep 24 '13 at 15:42
The directory for you to choose depends on the dictionary you intend to use. Although myspell (/usr/share/myspell) seems to be very popular, I use hunspell (/usr/share/hunspell) as I had trouble configuring pt-br dictionary using myspell. — Robson, Jan 17 '14 at 03:40
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score 36 · Accepted Answer · edited Aug 04 '23 at 16:29

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I had the same problem but the .dic files that I used didn't work.

Texmaker Error : Can’t open the dictionary

To solve this error you need to install the spell-checker

Use: sudo apt-get install myspell-de-de myspell-en-us or use sudo apt-get install myspell-*

on 4/8/23 Michael edited I had to install hunspell sudo apt-get install hunspell-en-gb then i restarted TexMaker and under options->configure TexMaker I choose editor and under spelling dictionary I entered /usr/share/hunspell/en_GB.dic and now I can spell check on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS!!

Then find the dictionary: locate *.aff

There were two directories that contained dictionary files in my computer; /usr/share/hunspell/ and /usr/share/myspell/. Only one of the "myspell" dictionaries worked, while all the "hunspell" dictionaries worked (so far) .

Probably the .dic file from "myspell" doesn’t work without a corresponding .aff file...

Chose the .aff file that you want and enter its path into texmaker at options --> configure texmaker --> editor --> spelling dictionary then click ok.
Right click on your "code" and click on check spelling to make sure it's working.

edited Aug 04 '23 at 16:29

Michael

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answered May 15 '16 at 09:53

Chandran Goodchild

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This worked great for me. Thanks! It appears the default TexMaker folder for dictionaries is just wrong. – Dr_Zaszuś May 09 '17 at 14:48
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This worked for me. I used
sudo apt-get install myspell-de-de myspell-en-gb

and then I redirected TexMaker to /usr/share/hunspell/
– Fly by Night Sep 22 '17 at 16:29
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This did not work for me (Ubuntu 18.04.2, Gnome 3.28.2). Dictionaries are installed in /usr/share/hunspell/dicts/, Texmaker is pointed to the .dic file in that directory. Restarted Texmaker. Still get the error "can't open dictionary". – Sander Heinsalu Apr 13 '19 at 14:02
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Cannot edit my comment, so adding another: the solution was to use the file icon in Texmaker to open the File manager and point to the .dic file, instead of typing in the path to the .dic file. – Sander Heinsalu Apr 13 '19 at 14:11
For recent Ubuntu it seems myspell is not maintained anymore. Hunspell works well on 20.04. – Arnaud Oct 27 '20 at 13:31

score 17 · Answer 2 · edited Mar 11 '13 at 03:08

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/usr/share/hyphen are not the right directory for spelling dictionaries. The spelling dictionaries are in the /usr/share/myspell directory and spell dictionaries are in fact always composed of 2 files: the .dic (which must be selected) and the .aff file.

edited Mar 11 '13 at 03:08

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answered Mar 11 '13 at 02:47

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score 10 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 30 '14 at 16:51

Inside /usr/share/myspell/dicts you should have links to both the .dic AND the .aff file of the language (e.g. en_US or en_GB).

/usr/share/myspell/dicts$ ls -og |  grep /en_US
lrwxrwxrwx 1 24 Jan 30 11:21 en_US.aff -> ../../hunspell/en_US.aff
lrwxrwxrwx 1 24 Nov  3 13:03 en_US.dic -> ../../hunspell/en_US.dic

Then from configuration, make TexMaker "Spelling dictionary" point to the .dic file:

/usr/share/myspell/dicts/en_US.dic

This is the description/explanation from MySpell Wikipedia entry:

The spell checking is done using the .aff file for the locale together with the .dic file. The .dic file is a list of words along with a group of letters which refer to the affixes found in the .aff file. This saves space because instead of having include all forms of a word, like jump (jumping, jumps, jumped), the .dic file will include the word once and the references to the affixes in the .aff file allow the construction of all the other forms.

If you don't have an .aff file, you can get one the en_US .dic/.aff for Hunspell from wordlist.sourceforge.net.

score 9 · Answer 4 · edited Apr 26 '15 at 12:27

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I had the same problem and in my case I had to give a new path /usr/share/hunspell/en_US.dic to the dictionary since /usr/share/hyphen/hyph_en_GB.dic was non existent (on my ubuntu 14.04).

edited Apr 26 '15 at 12:27

Stefan Kottwitz

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answered Apr 26 '15 at 11:48

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Worked for me on Ubuntu 14.04. Thanks!! :) – dksahuji Dec 23 '15 at 11:31
Didn't work for Ubuntu 10.04 – Pankaj Joshi Aug 08 '18 at 20:54

score 4 · Answer 5 · answered Jun 17 '15 at 07:30

I am using Texmaker 4.1 on Ubuntu 14.04, and faced a similar problem; turns out that myspell-en-gb was not installed. Simple fix: sudo apt-get install myspell-en-gb and make sure the dictionary path is correctly set as /usr/share/myspell/dicts/en_GB.dic in Texmaker's configuration window.

score 2 · Answer 6 · edited Nov 02 '15 at 21:28

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To configure the spell checker: "Configure Texmaker" -> "Editor" -> "Spelling dictionary" -> click on the button at the end of the line to select the dictionary with the file browser. From the list pick the required dictionary; for my case US-dic.

edited Nov 02 '15 at 21:28

Werner

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answered Nov 02 '15 at 21:06

Ilnaz Asadzadeh

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score 2 · Answer 7 · answered Oct 09 '16 at 12:12

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I had a similar problem, solved it by using a different .dic file.

You can get it from here.

Home -> speller -> [yyyy.mm.dd] -> hunspell(...).zip

source

answered Oct 09 '16 at 12:12

olfek

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score 2 · Answer 8 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:36

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With Ubuntu 16.04, the spell check was not working for me. The config referred to a non-existent file.

Using locate *.aff I found en_US.aff in /usr/share/hunspell, fixed the config to this file and spell check is now working.

I am using TeXLive installed using this. See also here.

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:36

Community

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answered Jan 29 '17 at 23:41

David Deery

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score 2 · Answer 9 · edited Mar 21 '17 at 23:05

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I solved the problem just writing in the terminal $locate *.aff and then change my directory in texmaker for the new one.

edited Mar 21 '17 at 23:05

Werner

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answered Mar 21 '17 at 22:42

Marcos Infante Jacobo

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score 2 · Answer 10 · answered Mar 28 '17 at 12:37

(this should be a comment but i dont have reputation enough)

In my case, in /usr/share/hunspell/ I have several files which are only symbolic links and some of then which are the actual files. The only one that work are the ones which are not symbolic links.

score 2 · Answer 11 · answered Nov 29 '18 at 13:19

I got this issue in Texmaker in my Ubuntu 16.04

There's just following simple steps to get rid of this.

1) Click options in the menu bar of your Texmaker window, and select Configure Texmaker

2) Click Editor in the leftmost column

3) Check whether the spelling dictionary bar ends with en_GB.dic or anything else other than en_US.dic (maybe Texmaker doesn't have in-built en_GB.dic installed - at least this was the case with me)

5) Install the .dic and .aff using sudo apt-get install myspell-de-de myspell-en-gb

6) The .dic file will normally be installed at /usr/share/hunspell/en_GB.dic. Or else you could just locate it.

7) Give /usr/share/hunspell/en_GB.dic to the spelling directory in the configure Texmaker and you're good to go.

mohamed · Answer 12 · 2016-09-02T04:17:32.190

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I had the same issue and I fixed it using the following approach:

Download an up-to-date spelling dictionary and make sure it includes the ".aff" file. You can get one from wordlist.sourceforge.net. Unzip, put it wherever you want, and then go to preferences->editor in texmaker and point to where you have your ".dic" file.

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answered Aug 31 '16 at 18:46

mohamed

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