[NTG-context] Spellchecking for ConTeXt user on a Windows platform

[Tomáš V]

Hey Amine,

LibreOffice (along with loads of other software) uses Hunspell 
dictionaries for spell-checking. You can get them here [1].

Hunspell [2] is a spell checker similar to Aspell. (A Windows port is 
available in the EZWinPorts [3].) Unlike Aspell, it can’t parse TeX 
files. One way around this is to convert the TeX files into plain text 
(maybe using Pandoc or DeTeX?) and spell-checking just the text. I tried 
this, but I found it quite cumbersome and since switched to the build-in 
spell-checker in my editor.

PDF files could probably be spell-checked in a similar way.

Tomáš

[1]: https://github.com/LibreOffice/dictionaries
[2]: http://hunspell.github.io/
[3]: 
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/efaq-w32/EZWinPorts.html

On 02/04/2022 15:19, A A via ntg-context wrote:
> Hi Alain,
> 
> Yes that's what I mean, spellchecking any content which is not a control 
> sequence. That should include things like section titles and footnotes. 
> Though I'm afraid that might be asking for too much.
> 
> I'd rather not make it part of my editor (I use vim) and have it as an 
> extra step which I can add to something like a Makefile.
> 
> Do I need to install all of Libreoffice to gain access to the files you 
> mention or is there an easier way?
> 
> Amine