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- <h2><a name="L1063">Spell checking</a></h2>
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- <p>Amaya provides a multilingual spell checker. This tool is invoked by the
- <strong>Spell Check</strong> command from the <strong>Edit</strong> menu. It
- uses the <code>LANG</code> attribute to select the right dictionary. You can
- associate this attribute with any element in a document, even with a single
- word. Use the <strong>Language</strong> command in the <strong><a
- href="Attributes.html#L1073">Attributes</a></strong> menu for that
- purpose.</p>
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- <p>When the user wants to register a new word, the spell checker creates or
- updates the "user's personal dictionary". By default, the "user's personal
- dictionary" <code>AmayaHome/dictionary.DCT</code>.. The checker will use, in
- addition to the dictionary specific to the language, this dictionary (in
- read-write mode) to control all documents. This dictionary is created and
- automatically updated by the spelling checker when the commands ``Skip
- (+dic)'' and ``Replace (+dic)'' are issued (see below).</p>
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- <p>The <strong>Spell Check</strong> command in <strong>Edit</strong> menu
- displays a form which enables you to choose the correction parameters and to
- interact with the checker:</p>
- <ul>
- <li>The maximum number of proposals is specified in the <strong>Number of
- proposal</strong>s area. This number can take any value between 1 and 10,
- the default value is 3. Once an error has been detected, any change made
- to this value immediately displays a new list of proposals.</li>
- <li>Several buttons in <strong>Ignore</strong> submenu allow you to ignore
- certain words: for example words that contain capital letters, digits,
- Roman numerals or special characters indicated in the list below. This
- list can be modified by the user.</li>
- <li>The <strong>Checking</strong> submenu, similar to that in the <strong><a
- href="Searching.html">Search</a></strong> form, allows you to specify the
- part of document on which the checker will work.</li>
- <li>The erroneous word is displayed in the area<strong>Spell
- checking....</strong> The list of proposals is displayed in the selector
- located below the incorrect word. By default, the first proposal of
- correction is selected. To select another proposal, simply click on it.
- The selected proposal is displayed below the selector. This proposal can
- be directly modified in the form. The correction is made once you have
- clicked on one of the buttons <strong>Replace and next</strong> or
- <strong>Replace (+dic)</strong>.</li>
- <li>The language in which the correction is made is specified in the top
- left corner of the form. To change the language, just apply an attribute
- Language to the text concerned by using the <a
- href="Attributes.html#Attributes"><strong>Attributes</strong></a> menu and
- restart the correction procedure.</li>
- </ul>
-
- <p>To start the correction, click on the <strong>Search/Skip</strong> button
- bottom of the form. If an error has been found, the incorrect word is selected
- and highlighted in the document. If no error has been detected, the "Not
- found" message is displayed in the bottom right corner of the form.</p>
-
- <p>The user can then use one of the buttons placed at the bottom of the form
- to perform one of the following operations:</p>
- <ul>
- <li><strong>Done</strong>: the form disappears and checking is aborted.
- Previous corrections are not canceled.</li>
- <li><strong>Search/Skip:</strong> the word considered incorrect is
- acceptable. No change is made in the text nor in the dictionaries. The
- checker searches for the next error.</li>
- <li><strong>Skip (+dic)</strong>: it is the same as ``Skip and next'' but
- the word considered incorrect is added to the spelling dictionary specific
- to the document, thus the checker will ignore any subsequent occurrence of
- this word.</li>
- <li><strong>Replace and next</strong>: the word considered as erroneous is
- replaced by the correct word (changed or modified by the user, see above)
- and the checker searches for the next error.</li>
- <li><p><strong>Replace (+dic)</strong>: it is the same as.<strong>Replace
- and next</strong>: except that the replacement word is added to the
- document dictionary.</p>
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