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From: Aleksandar Dimitrov <mail@aleks.bg>
To: Joost Kremers <joostkremers@fastmail.fm>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: About multilingual documents
Date: Tue, 04 May 2021 10:00:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <875yzzvsgn.fsf@aleks.bg> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87v97zmys5.fsf@fastmail.fm>

Hi Joost

> [Not directly related to the OP, but might be useful to know.]
>
> On Mon, May 03 2021, Aleksandar Dimitrov wrote:
>> this sounds very interesting to me, as I, too, mostly write in Org
>> and, sometimes write documents in multiple languages, usually with
>> different varieties of either Latin or Cyrillic.
> [...]
>> Apart from the export, one of my biggest gripes is
>> flyspell. Specifically, the fact that you have to choose one language to
>> spell check the entire document with. That is insufficient in my case.
>
> flyspell is basically just ispell, and ispell can be configured with different
> backends. One possible backend is hunspell, which allows you to set multiple
> dictionaries. So if you regularly use different languages in a buffer, you
> should give hunspell a try.
>
> [...]
>> The drawback, and the clear disadvantage compared to your method is that
>> this works great only when the languages are separated by paragraph
>> breaks.
>
> If that is the case, you could also check out the =guess-language= package:
> <https://github.com/tmalsburg/guess-language.el>. It tries to detect the
> language of the current paragraph and sets the ispell (and hence flyspell)
> dictionary accordingly. I use it because I write in three different languages,
> but usually don't mix them in one buffer.

Thanks for your hints! =guess-language= seems really cool! I also didn't
know hunspell supported more than one dictionary.

Thanks!
Aleks

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2021-05-04  8:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-02 20:20 About multilingual documents Juan Manuel Macías
2021-05-03  6:58 ` Aleksandar Dimitrov
2021-05-03 17:47   ` Greg Minshall
2021-05-04  7:30     ` Aleksandar Dimitrov
2021-05-04 17:09       ` Maxim Nikulin
2021-05-04 18:55         ` Aleksandar Dimitrov
2021-05-06 16:22           ` Maxim Nikulin
2021-05-04  8:19     ` Eric S Fraga
2021-05-04  8:29       ` Input methods [was: Re: About multilingual documents] Joost Kremers
2021-05-04  9:36         ` Eric S Fraga
2021-05-03 18:48   ` About multilingual documents Joost Kremers
2021-05-04  8:00     ` Aleksandar Dimitrov [this message]
2021-05-03 20:33   ` Juan Manuel Macías
2021-05-04  1:00     ` Tom Gillespie
2021-05-04  8:13       ` Aleksandar Dimitrov
2021-05-04  8:44     ` Aleksandar Dimitrov
2021-05-06 11:11       ` Juan Manuel Macías
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2021-05-04 11:43 autofrettage

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