If you are interested in getting some spellchecking capabilities in the markdown cells of your Jupyter notebook take a look at this repo.
You can follow these instructions:
- Install Jupyter notebook extensions (nbextensions). This includes Spellchecker and a that is the extension we are after in this case. Type the following in a terminal, to install it using PIP.
pip install jupyter_contrib_nbextensions
However, if Anaconda is being used the recommended method is to use conda, as shown below
conda install -c conda-forge jupyter_contrib_nbextensions
When you start your Jupyter notebook you will see a new tab: The configuration interface. In the main menu of Jupyter notebook a new tab named Nbextension will appear.
2. You need to get hold of suitable dictionaries in UTF-8 encoding. I am including some en British English and Spanish (Spain and Mexico) in this repo.
Download the files and place them in the following directory
~/.local/share/jupyter/nbextensions/spellchecker/typo/dictionaries
Note that the directory above depends on your actual installation. For instance you may find that with Anaconda on a mac you will need to place the files in the following path:
/Applications/anaconda3/share/jupyter/nbextensions/spellchecker/typo/dictionaries
3. Point the extension to the correct path.
For the British English dictionaries use the following configuration:
- Language code for typo.js:
en_GB - Dictionary .dic file:
./typo/dictionaries/en_GB.dic - Dictionary .aff file:
./typo/dictionaries/en_GB.aff
For the Spanish (Spain) ones:
- Language code for typo.js:
es_ES - Dictionary .dic file:
./typo/dictionaries/es_ES.dic - Dictionary .aff file:
./typo/dictionaries/es_ES.aff
For the Spanish (Mexico) ones:
- Language code for typo.js:
es_MX - Dictionary .dic file:
./typo/dictionaries/es_MX.dic - Dictionary .aff file:
./typo/dictionaries/es_MX.aff
More dictionaries are available from: https://github.com/wooorm/dictionaries