[Tex/LaTex] TeXStudio: Add new word to dictionary via button

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I installed a new Dutch dictionary from the Open Office website in my 'dictionaries' file. Spelling checks work perfectly in TeXStudio, but now, I'd like to add new words to the dictionary during the spelling check. I've already found this: TeXworks: How to add a word to the spell checker dictionary?.

However, that's not exactly what I want. Instead of editing the .dic and .aff. files manually, I'd like to provide a button, so that the new word is added to the dictionary automatically.

Edit: What about adding a link to the spelling check box that opens the .dic and .aff files? Is that possible? I just want to avoid a long search for the files every time.

How can I do that?

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Hunspell dictionaries (.dic and .aff) are more complex than just word lists (i.e. it contains information of possible affixes). Therefore, a proper entry cannot be generated from a single word.

The solution in TexStudio is to store additional words in an ignore word list (.ign) next to the dictionary. This list can be populated via Context Menu -> always ignore or via the Always Ingore button in the spell checking dialog.

Note: On Windows 7 the default dictionaries are in

C:\Program Files (x86)\TeXstudio\dictionaries\

Windows 7 prevents writing to the program files directory.It redirects the writes to User dictionaries, which are in

 C:\Users\<User>\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files (x86)\TeXstudio\dictionaries

You may find the .ign files there.

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[Tex/LaTex] TeXworks: How to add a word to the spell checker dictionary

TeXworks uses a spell checker called Hunspell, an engine which is also used e.g. by OpenOffice:

Each dictionary consists of two files with the extensions .dic and .aff. Where these are located depends on your TeXworks installation, on my system (TeX Live 2010, Windows), they are in the directory

C:\Users\<user name>\.texlive2010\texmf-config\texworks\dictionaries

Adding words to the dictionary is quite simple: As the .dic file is a plain word list, you can just add new lines with your own words. If you want the system to recognize different word forms, too, you have to deal with the .aff file - see this explanation for more details. However, simply changing the word list should be enough in most cases.

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The dictionaries folder should not be placed within the scripts folder, but in the parent folder to this, i.e., the scripts and dictionaries folders should be on the same level. Hence, the path to the latter would be something like

C:\Users\Pieter\TeXworks\dictionaries

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