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    copied!<p>I write mostly my documentation in HTML using <em>emacs</em> as my main editor. Emacs let you interactively spell-check the current buffer with the command <code>ispell-buffer</code>.</p> <p>Since I switch between a number of languages, I have an HTML comment at the end of the file specifying the main dictionary and personal dictionary for that file, E.g. for Norwegian (norsk) I use the following pair of dictionaries:</p> <pre><code>&lt;!-- Local IspellDict: norsk --&gt; &lt;!-- Local IspellPersDict: ~/.aspell/personal.dict --&gt; </code></pre> <p>This works great.</p> <p>However, sometimes I have a paragraph in another language (e.g. English) embedded in an otherwise Norwegian document. Example:</p> <pre><code>&lt;p xml:lang="en"&gt;This paragraph is in English.&lt;/p&gt; </code></pre> <p>The spell-checker naturally flag <em>all</em> the words in such a paragraph as misspellings (since the dictionary only contain Norwegian words).</p> <p>To avoid this, I've tried to add a "british" dictionary to the document, like this:</p> <pre><code>&lt;!-- Local IspellDict: british --&gt; &lt;!-- Local IspellDict: norsk --&gt; &lt;!-- Local IspellPersDict: ~/.aspell/personal.dict --&gt; </code></pre> <p>Unfortunately, this does not work. The "british" dictionary is simply ignored.</p> <p>My prefered solution would to load an additional dictionary and use this, toghether with the primary dictionary, for spell-checking. Is this possible?</p> <p>However, I am also interested in a solution that let me mark paragraphs for <em>not</em> being spell checked. It is not ideal, but it would stop valid English words from being flagged as misspellings.</p> <p>PS: I have also looked at the answer to this question: <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5873601/multilingual-spell-checking-with-language-detection">Multilingual spell checking with language detection</a>, but it is much broader and does not address the specific use <em>emacs ispell</em> for doing the spell-check.</p>
 

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