[Tex/LaTex] TeXnicCenter Finnish Spelling, how to use a new language/spelling

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I am using TeXnicCenter for writing LaTeX documents. Unfortunately, when I am writing in Finnish as I usually do, there is no spell checker in Finnish in TeXnicCenter. All the lines are underlined in red, and this is not nice. I know that there is Voikko for Finnish spell checking in LibreOffice, but is it possible to apply Voikko for TeXnicCenter? TeXnicCenter is using Hunspell; I downloaded the voikko-laaja.oxt file but I could not find in this package any files with .aff and .dic suffices.

Best Answer

The file type .oxt is an archive. So:

  1. Open the file <filename>.oxt using 7-Zip;
  2. Locate the appropriate .dic and .aff files inside the archive. Typically they are called <lang>_<dialect>.dic and <lang>_<dialect>.aff;
  3. Copy these files to

    C:\Program Files\TeXnicCenter\Dictionaries
    

    Note that the naming convention is strict. So, if your files have the format <lang>-<dialect>, rename them to <lang>_<dialect>.

  4. (Re)start TeXnicCenter;
  5. Identify the new language/dialect from the Tools > Options... > Spelling menu:

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