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- <h2>Checking Spelling in Amaya</h2>
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- <p>Amaya provides a multilingual spell checker, and selects the appropriate
- language according to the <code>lang</code> attribute. The <code>lang</code>
- attribute can be associated with any element in a document, even with a
- single word, using the <a
- href="Attributes.html"><strong>Attributes</strong></a> tool.</p>
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- <p>To spell check a document, choose <strong>Check spelling</strong> from the
- <strong>Edit</strong> menu.</p>
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- <h3>The Personal Dictionary</h3>
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- <p>When you register a new word, the spell checker creates or updates the
- <b>user's personal dictionary</b>. A user's personal dictionary is located in
- the <code>AmayaHome/dictionary.DCT</code> file. In read-write mode, the spell
- checker employs the user dictionary when reviewing all documents, in addition
- to the language-specific dictionaries. When you click the <strong>Skip
- (+dic)</strong> and <strong>Replace (+dic)</strong> buttons in the
- <strong>Spell checking</strong> dialog, the user dictionary is created if
- does not exists and automatically updated by the spelling checker.</p>
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- <h3>The Spell Check Dialog</h3>
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- <p>The <strong>Check spelling</strong> option on the <strong>Edit</strong>
- menu displays a dialog that enables you to choose parameters and interact
- with the spell checker. These parameters are defined below.</p>
- <ul>
- <li>The <strong>Spell Checking</strong> field displays incorrect words. The
- list of proposed corrections is displayed in the selector field located
- below the incorrect word. By default, Amaya selects the first proposed
- correction. To select another correction, simply click it. The selected
- correction is displayed below the selector field. This correction can be
- directly edited on the form. The correction is made when you click the
- <strong>Replace and next</strong> or <strong>Replace (+dic)</strong>
- buttons.<br />
- Note that you can perform the correction by double-clicking a proposed
- correction.
- <p></p>
- </li>
- <li>The <strong>language</strong> in which the correction is made is
- specified in the bottom left corner of the form. To change the language,
- apply a <code>lang</code> attribute to the text with the
- <strong>Attributes</strong> tool, and restart the spell-check
- procedure.</li>
- <li>The <strong>Ignore</strong> section tells the spell checker to ignore
- certain words, for example, words that contain only capital letters,
- words that contain digits, Roman numerals or words with special
- characters (you can choose the special characters).
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- </li>
- <li>The <strong>Checking</strong> section, similar to that in the <a
- href="Searching.html">Search dialog</a>, enables you to specify the part
- of document on which the checker will work.
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- </li>
- </ul>
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- <h3>Running the Spell Checker</h3>
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- <p>To start the checker, click the <strong>Search/Skip</strong> button at the
- bottom of the form. If an error is found, the incorrect word is selected and
- highlighted in the document. If no error was detected, Amaya displays a
- pop-up "End of spell checking".</p>
-
- <p>When an incorrect word is detected, you can use a button on the form to
- perform the following operations:</p>
- <ul>
- <li><strong>Search/Skip</strong>: Amaya considers the incorrect word as
- acceptable. No change is made in the text or in the dictionaries. The
- checker searches for the next error.
- <p></p>
- </li>
- <li><strong>Skip (+dic)</strong>: Performs the same action as the
- <strong>Skip/Skip</strong> button, except that the word considered
- incorrect is added to the document dictionary, and the checker will
- ignore any subsequent occurrence of this word.
- <p></p>
- </li>
- <li><strong>Replace and next</strong>: Amaya replaces the incorrect word
- with the correct word (optionally edited by the user) and the checker
- searches for the next error.
- <p></p>
- </li>
- <li><strong>Replace (+dic):</strong> Performs the same action as the
- <strong>Replace and next</strong> button, except that the replacement
- word is added to the document dictionary.</li>
- <li><strong>Cancel</strong>: Amaya closes the form and stops spell
- checking. Previous corrections are not canceled.</li>
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