[Tex/LaTex] Spelling check for Texmaker

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I have trouble spell checking my document in Texmaker. When I press spellcheck, I get the error No dictionary Available. I really read every thing to fix this problem but it is not clear for me especially about directory?

I am running Texmaker on Mac.
My Texmaker is located in application, and my dictionary (Oxford Dictionary of English) is located in application too.

spelling dictionary in Texmaker as shown in this picture is

/Users/garry/Downloads/TexmakerMacosxLion/texmaker.app/Contents/MacOS/../Resources/en_GB.dic

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I know this is a very late reply but I'm just writing this for someone else who might have the same problem. I am using Texmaker on Yosemite and had the same issue. This page solved it:

http://www.swisswuff.ch/wordpress/?p=166

In case it goes down, here are the steps:

Get the dictionary file en_US.oxt from Open Office link

rename the file to en_US.zip.

Unzip it.

Copy both en_US.aff and en_US.dic to your default or preferred dictionary location.

Use Texmaker >Options > Configure Texmaker > Editor > Spelling dictionary to select en_US.dic as your preferred spelling dictionary.

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In the link of @Thorsten I couldn't find anything about Texmaker, and about particularities so:

In general, all you need is *.aff and *.dic file, you can download them from OpenOffice dictionary packages (archive contains these and some other files) e.g. en_GB.aff and en_GB.dic placed in right directory does the trick.
Dictionaries of the languages that you will be using.

For Texmaker specifically, you go: Options -> Configure Texmaker -> Spelling Dictionary

Maybe this should be a comment but I'm so far able to answer and not to comment.

[Tex/LaTex] Add word to TexMaker dictionary

If adding is what you just need then this answer might work for you. If you want to install a new dictionary, follow the link in the comment. With your terminal, cd to the directory of your TeXMaker dictionary. If you don't know where, in TeXMaker click

Options > Configure TeXMaker > Editor

You can see the directory of the dictionary in the option Spelling dictionary. In Ubuntu, once you are in the directory, type

sudo gedit en_GB.dic

and put the word you want to add in there.

In Windows, just go to the directory and double click on the file or open with Notepad. Then write the word you want to add.

You might also want to save the customized file in another folder and have your Spelling dictionary option point to the custom file.

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