Cspell custom dictionary for Pāḷi

The following text file can be used as a custom dictionary for Cspell. Cspell is often used as a spell checker in code editors such as Visual Studio Code.

The custom dictionary is generated using the word lookups from Digital Pali Dictionary (Documentation).

Download `pali.txt`

To use the custom dictionary in Visual Studio Code, add the following to your settings.json file:

"cSpell.customDictionaries": {
  "pali": {
    "name": "pali",
    "path": "${workspaceRoot}/pali.txt",
    "description": "Pali dictionary",
    "addWords": false
  },
  "custom": true, // Enable the `custom` dictionary
}

To use this in Zed, create a cspell.json file in the root of your project with the following content:

{
  "dictionaries": ["en", "pali"],
  // Tell CSpell about your dictionary
  "dictionaryDefinitions": [
    {
      // The name of the dictionary is used to look it up.
      "name": "pali",
      // Path to the custom word file. Relative to this `cspell.json` file.
      "path": "./pali.txt",
      // Some editor extensions will use `addWords` for adding words to your
      // personal dictionary.
      "addWords": false
    }
  ]
}