Configuration Options¶
These options can be set in conf.py
along with the other Sphinx
configuration settings.
Input Options¶
spelling_lang='en_US'
String specifying the language, as understood by PyEnchant and enchant. Defaults to
en_US
for US English.
tokenizer_lang='en_US'
String specifying the tokenizer language as understood by PyEnchant and enchant. Defaults to
en_US
for US English.
spelling_word_list_filename='spelling_wordlist.txt'
String specifying a file containing a list of words known to be spelled correctly but that do not appear in the language dictionary selected by
spelling_lang
. The file should contain one word per line. Refer to the PyEnchant tutorial for details.To add multiple files use a list, or a comma separated string. This is useful when calling sphinx with
-D spelling_word_list_filename=...
which will not accept a list and will only accept a string parameter.
spelling_word_list_filename=['spelling_wordlist.txt','another_list.txt']
Same as above, but with several files of correctly spelled words.
spelling_word_list_filename='spelling_wordlist.txt,another_list.txt'
Same as above, but with several files of correctly spelled words, and passing the setting as a single string.
spelling_exclude_patterns=['ignored_*']
A list of glob-style patterns that should be ignored when checking spelling. They are matched against the source file names relative to the source directory, using slashes as directory separators on all platforms. See Sphinx’s exclude_patterns option for more details on glob-style patterns.
Output Options¶
spelling_show_suggestions=False
Boolean controlling whether suggestions for misspelled words are printed. Defaults to
False
.
spelling_suggestion_limit=0
Integer number of suggestions to emit when
spelling_show_suggestions
isTrue
. Defaults to0
, meaning no limit. Any positive value truncates the suggestion limit.
spelling_show_whole_line=True
Boolean controlling whether the contents of the line containing each misspelled word is printed, for more context about the location of each word. Defaults to True.
spelling_warning=False
Boolean controlling whether a misspelling is emitted as a sphinx warning or as an info message. Defaults to False.
spelling_verbose=True
Choose whether or not the misspelled words should be displayed in the terminal. Defaults to True.
Word Filters¶
Enable or disable the built-in filters to control which words are returned by the tokenizer to be checked.
spelling_ignore_pypi_package_names=False
Boolean controlling whether words that look like package names from PyPI are treated as spelled properly. When
True
, the current list of package names is downloaded at the start of the build and used to extend the list of known words in the dictionary. Defaults toFalse
.
spelling_ignore_wiki_words=True
Boolean controlling whether words that follow the CamelCase conventions used for page names in wikis should be treated as spelled properly. Defaults to
True
.
spelling_ignore_acronyms=True
Boolean controlling treatment of words that appear in all capital letters, or all capital letters followed by a lower case
s
. WhenTrue
, acronyms are assumed to be spelled properly. Defaults toTrue
.
spelling_ignore_python_builtins=True
Boolean controlling whether names built in to Python should be treated as spelled properly. Defaults to
True
.
spelling_ignore_importable_modules=True
Boolean controlling whether words that are names of modules found on
sys.path
are treated as spelled properly. Defaults toTrue
.
spelling_ignore_contributor_names=True
Boolean controlling whether contributor names taken from the git history for the repository are considered as spelled correctly.
spelling_filters=[]
List of importable filter classes to be added to the tokenizer that produces words to be checked. For example,
["enchant.tokenize.MentionFilter"]
. The classes should be derived fromenchant.tokenize.Filter
. Refer to the PyEnchant tutorial for examples.
Managing Lists of Correctly Spelled Words and Ignoring Words¶
There are three ways to provide a list of known good words. The
spelling_word_list_filename
option (described above) specifies the
name of a plain text file containing one word per line. All of the
words in the file are assumed to be spelled correctly and may appear
in any part of the document being processed.
You can use multiple text files with words to be added to the dictionary, to do this all you need to do is use a list and include the name of your text files.
For example:
spelling_word_list_filename = ['spelling_wordlist.txt', 'my_wordlist.txt']
The spelling:word-list
directive can be used to create a list of
words known to be spelled correctly within a single file. For
example, if a document refers to a person or project by name, the name
can be added to the list of known words for just that document.
.. spelling::
Docutils
Goodger
The spelling:word
role can be used to annotate individual words as
being spelled correctly throughout a single document.
This text refers to :spelling:word:`Goodger`.
The spelling:ignore
role can be used to ignore a single instance
of a word.
This text refers to :spelling:ignore:`docutils`.
Custom Word Filters¶
The PyEnchant tokenizer supports a “filtering” API for processing words from the input. Filters can alter the stream of words by adding, replacing, or dropping values.
New filters should be derived from enchant.tokenize.Filter
and
implement either the _split()
method (to add or replace words) or
_skip()
(to treat words as being spelled correctly). For example,
this AcronymFilter
skips words that are all uppercase letters
or all uppercase with a trailing lowercase “s”.
class AcronymFilter(Filter):
"""If a word looks like an acronym (all upper case letters),
ignore it.
"""
def _skip(self, word):
return (word.isupper() # all caps
or
# pluralized acronym ("URLs")
(word[-1].lower() == 's'
and
word[:-1].isupper()
)
)
To be used in a document, the custom filter needs to be installed
somewhere that Sphinx can import it while processing the input
files. The Sphinx project’s conf.py
then needs two changes.
Import the filter class.
Add the import string for the filter class to the
spelling_filters
configuration variable.
spelling_filters = ['mymodule.MyFilter']