Re: [gutvol-d] Creating a list of unknown words from a text document
james said:
Carlo, This is an excellent suggestion, much better than I had hoped for
what, you didn't like my suggestion to program it yourself? you would rather use canned programs? what fun is that? :+) anyway, i'd love to see the output file. can you dropbox it?
I tried the command and it worked the first time.
ok, so let's play this out for an "average" user, like me... i tried your command. i got this:
-bash: enchant: command not found
so what do i do next? (mac, snow leopard.) -bowerbird
Bowerbird, I am a Linux guy. enchant was installed already, as was aspell. For the Mac you might try Macports: http://www.macports.org/ports.php?by=category&substr=spelling Some things are much harder on a Mac or Windows than they are on Linux and I think this is going to be an example of that. Fancy text processing using command line tools is one of the areas where Linux excels. The output file is here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8919415/myfile-words.txt James Simmons On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 3:21 PM, <Bowerbird@aol.com> wrote:
james said:
Carlo, This is an excellent suggestion, much better than I had hoped for
what, you didn't like my suggestion to program it yourself? you would rather use canned programs? what fun is that? :+)
anyway, i'd love to see the output file. can you dropbox it?
I tried the command and it worked the first time.
ok, so let's play this out for an "average" user, like me...
i tried your command. i got this:
-bash: enchant: command not found
so what do i do next? (mac, snow leopard.)
-bowerbird
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Hi All, In case you do not know Mac OSX is a Unix System with a fancy GUI. True, the Mac does not come bloated with many Unix tools, yet they can be installed easily via MacPorts or Fink. Similarly true, is that you need some intimate knowledge using these tools and the command line, but this is true of any Linux distribution. In the end using command line tools on the Mac is no harder than on Linux. Windows is slightly different as it has no underlying Unix layer, yet it is possible to get these tools running under Windows or a VM. regards Keith. Am 26.04.2012 um 00:41 schrieb James Simmons:
Bowerbird,
I am a Linux guy. enchant was installed already, as was aspell. For the Mac you might try Macports:
http://www.macports.org/ports.php?by=category&substr=spelling
Some things are much harder on a Mac or Windows than they are on Linux and I think this is going to be an example of that. Fancy text processing using command line tools is one of the areas where Linux excels.
The output file is here:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8919415/myfile-words.txt
James Simmons
Keith, I own a Mac mini and develop for the Mac as well. I have also installed software originally developed for Linux on Windows (like The GIMP, for instance). I agree that the Mac and Windows can be made to do just about anything you can do with Linux, including running most of the same software. There is a difference between an OS that expects you to do text processing and create software and which encourages you to do so (Linux) and an OS that fights you every step of the way (everything else). I will also note that you can run a Linux distribution on a Mac using Virtual Box with a very reasonable amount of effort. By the way, the index is coming along very nicely. Open Office on Linux is an excellent tool for preparing a book to be published on Create Space. Use The GIMP for illustrations and the front and back cover images and in no time at all you have a book ready to publish. James Simmons On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 2:26 AM, Keith J. Schultz <schultzk@uni-trier.de>wrote:
Hi All,
In case you do not know Mac OSX is a Unix System with a fancy GUI.
True, the Mac does not come bloated with many Unix tools, yet they can be installed easily via MacPorts or Fink.
Similarly true, is that you need some intimate knowledge using these tools and the command line, but this is true of any Linux distribution.
In the end using command line tools on the Mac is no harder than on Linux.
Windows is slightly different as it has no underlying Unix layer, yet it is possible to get these tools running under Windows or a VM.
regards Keith.
Am 26.04.2012 um 00:41 schrieb James Simmons:
Bowerbird,
I am a Linux guy. enchant was installed already, as was aspell. For the Mac you might try Macports:
http://www.macports.org/ports.php?by=category&substr=spelling
Some things are much harder on a Mac or Windows than they are on Linux and I think this is going to be an example of that. Fancy text processing using command line tools is one of the areas where Linux excels.
The output file is here:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8919415/myfile-words.txt
James Simmons
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Hi All, Surely, BB must be joking here. But, for the uninformed. For many unix tools for Macs one can use 1) MacPort http://www.macports.org/ 2) Fink http://www.finkproject.org/ I will discuss the caveats of the above package managers, except that they require that Xcode be installed and in Xcode you have to have the command line tools installed via preferences -> downloads. There is, also, Homebrew, though I do not have any experience with it. Have fun. Keith Am 25.04.2012 um 22:21 schrieb Bowerbird@aol.com:
ok, so let's play this out for an "average" user, like me...
i tried your command. i got this:
-bash: enchant: command not found
so what do i do next? (mac, snow leopard.)
-bowerbird
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