Discussion about spell checking Markdown documents.

Markdown Spell Checker

I chose to use this Markdown Spell Checker

npm i markdown-spellcheck --save-dev

Although markdown-spellcheck has the ability to parse out files in a file system, I found it to be very cumbersome.

Thus I built a script md-spell-checker in the root directory of the project.

#!/bin/sh
#
# script to spell check markdown files
#
PARAM="$1"
#
if [ -z "$PARAM" ]; then
	echo "Spell Checker for all Markdown Files"
	for FILE in `find . \( -path ./node_modules -o -path ./destination -o -path ./Not-in-use \) -prune -o -name '*.md' -print`
	do
		echo "Spell Checking Markdown file $FILE"
		./node_modules/markdown-spellcheck/bin/mdspell -r -n -a --en-us $FILE
		echo "Completed Spell Checking Markdown file $FILE"
		echo " "
	done
else
	echo "Spell Checking Markdown file $PARAM"
	./node_modules/markdown-spellcheck/bin/mdspell -r -n -a --en-us $PARAM
fi

Notice the code to ignore directories I do not wish to spell check. Modify for your own needs.

To spell check only one file

./md-spell-checker {your-file}

Added to package.json

"scripts": {
	"spelling": "./md-spell-checker"
},

Add words to be considered valid by adding them, one word per line, to .spelling.

To spell check all markdown files

npm run spelling