Questions tagged [dictionaries]
{dictionaries} marks questions about spell-checking dictionaries used in TeX/LaTeX tools.
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How do I define an element in one tex file to appear next to another element in another tex file?
I am creating a dictionary using a python script to convert an XML file filled with entries into a LaTeX readable file. As I edit the XML file, I regenerate the entries.tex file, which is imported ...
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Built a dictionary with Glossaries
I would like to make a dictionary. I've tried to used an example from the Dickimaw Books, which proposed an interested option : multi-paragraph descriptions. But it doesn't work. \documentclass{report}...
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Creating a dictionary
I'm trying to make a dictionary of terms which can include images or tables. My first idea was to use the glossaries package. I should clarify that I need it's a dictionary and glossaries package ...
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Texstudio 4.7.3 crashes as soon I close denotation.tex
Backtrace file contains: unknown at 7ff615c33de7 (TXS-Version 4.7.3 R ) [bt] 00007ff61591a8b9 q+3508877 [bt] 00007ff615919acb q+3505311 [bt] 00007ff6158327f7 q+2558411 It doesn't crash when I ...
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Latest German dictionary pattern
I have included the format file latest German pattern from: https://ctan.org/tex-archive/language/hyphenation/dehyph-exptl?lang=en I have generated 45 German words in InDesign (using Duden Dictionary) ...
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Advice on workflow on creating and typesetting dictionary (glossary)
I'm trying to write and typesetting a dictionary for a language I am making. As the entry count balooning, I'm getting overwhelmed and I think doing repeating job of sorting and manually making ...
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I want to make line breaks that do not extend to the right
I am building a dictionary in which each entry is generated by \guientry command defined as follows. % #1: index, #2: orthography, #3: pronunciation, #4: part of speech, #5: explanation \newcommand{\...
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Function to output latex table from dictionary [closed]
Does anyone know how I can get a dictionary from python into a format that I can paste into latex to create a two column table of keys & values? I'm pretty basic with python. E.G. a function to ...
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How to exclude a word in latex dictionary [closed]
I just added a spell checker to texmaker and it works really well, except for one thing: since I'm italian, the right way to say "is" is "è" and not "é", so I would like ...
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How to set the spell check in TexMaker to other languages in Ubuntu
Is there any way to change the spell check language in TexMaker to Persian or any other language such as Spannish, Russian, and etc.?
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Tagging text and reverse index of tags?
Given some text, I would like to tag various passages as belonging to one or more categories, and produce a reverse list of such passages, itemized by their tags (see below, and see comments for 2nd ...
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Why some words can not be saved into customer dictionary in TexStudio
When a word is displayed with a red underline, it means that this word is wrongly spelled or not in the dictionary. In the latter case, the word can be saved into the dictionary in Check Spelling. But ...
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TeXmaker spellchecker is set to use en_UK, but it still accepts en_US spelling
As the title says, I have TeXmaker set to use the en_UK dictionary. This dictionary was manually copied from the LibreOffice's website (https://extensions.libreoffice.org/en/extensions/show/english-...
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Where is the saved dictionary located in TeXstudio [duplicate]
I import the open office dictionary at Configure Texstudio->Language Checking->Default Language->Import Dictionary, and it sets "Spelling Dictionary Directories"="C:\Program ...
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How to populate Python's dictionary data into Latex's table?
I have the data filled up at run-time in the dictionary. Need help in populating this data to a table in Latex. Code snippet for table: f.write('\\end{itemize}\n') f.write('\\begin{table}[ht]') f....