maybe i’m in the wrong place for my question. But sometimes i would like to add some “misspelled” or better, unknown expressions to the spellchecker on my mac.
In an automated way, obviously.
I mean, tracking down unknown words in a document and adding these to the main dictionary to use with the text suite application spellcheckers. Is it possible or not ?
Here i wrote a simple service script, which i think, is nicely useful and isn’t connected with my question above.
Its task is collects unknown words for later reviewing: you’ve to highlight a word in a document and to choose the appropriate service menu entry.
would be nice to add the translation in a 2nd column in the output text (using tab)
on run {input, parameters}
set theWord to input as text
tell application "Dictionary"
activate
open location "dict://" & (theWord as string) with error reporting
end tell
--save vocables
my write_voc(input)
return input
end run
on write_voc(input)
set the write_abc to ((path to documents folder) & "Wortschatz.txt" as text)
try
open for access file the write_abc with write permission
write (input & tab & return as Unicode text) to file the write_abc starting at eof
close access file the write_abc
on error
try
close access file the write_abc
end try
end try
end write_voc