How to add Spell Checker to TeXworks
As per the TeXworks manual, the procedure to install spell checking dictionaries in TeXworks is as follows.
- Download the dictionary corresponding to your desired language from the OpenOffice.org extensions site.
- Change the file extension of the downloaded file from
.oxt
to.zip
and extract the files with your archive utility of choice. - Open TeXworks and select
Settings and Resources
from theHelp
menu. A dialog window will open with a link to the TeXworks resources folder. - Click the link to open the resources folder. If there is no
dictionaries
subfolder there yet, then create it now. Open the (possibly newly created)dictionaries
subfolder. - Copy the
.dic
and.aff
files from the downloaded.zip
file to thedictionaries
subfolder. - Close and reopen TeXworks. The dictionaries should be listed under the
Spelling
item in theEdit
menu.