<?xml version="1.0" ?> <!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//KDE//DTD DocBook XML V4.2-Based Variant V1.1//EN" "dtd/kdex.dtd" [ <!ENTITY % addindex "IGNORE"> <!ENTITY % British-English "INCLUDE" > <!-- change language only here --> ]> <article lang="&language;"> <articleinfo> <authorgroup> <author >&Lauri.Watts; &Lauri.Watts.mail;</author> <othercredit role="translator" ><firstname >Malcolm</firstname ><surname >Hunter</surname ><affiliation ><address ><email >malcolm.hunter@gmx.co.uk</email ></address ></affiliation ><contrib >Conversion to British English</contrib ></othercredit > </authorgroup> <date >2003-10-13</date> <releaseinfo >3.2</releaseinfo> <keywordset> <keyword >KDE</keyword> <keyword >Spelling</keyword> <keyword >dictionary</keyword> </keywordset> </articleinfo> <sect1 id="spell-checking"> <title >Spell Checker</title> <para >The configuration options available here are used by all &kde; applications that use &kspell;, which is a front end to <command >ispell</command > or <command >aspell</command >.</para> <variablelist> <varlistentry> <term ><guilabel >Create root/affix combinations not in dictionary</guilabel ></term> <listitem> <para >Selecting this option allows the spell checker to register as <quote >correct</quote > combinations of root words with suffixes or prefixes even if the particular combination is not listed in its dictionary database of words.</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term ><guilabel >Consider run-together words as spelling errors</guilabel ></term> <listitem ><para >If this is selected, then words that appear in the dictionary separately, but have been run together, are considered to be spelling errors. For example, even though <quote >alarm</quote > and <quote >clock</quote > might be in your dictionary, if <quote >alarmclock</quote > is not, it will be flagged as a spelling error.</para ></listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term ><guilabel >Dictionary:</guilabel ></term> <listitem> <para >Choose from the available dictionaries, which one to use for &kspell;.</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term ><guilabel >Encoding:</guilabel ></term> <listitem> <para >You should select the one that matches the character set you are using. In some cases, dictionaries will support more than one encoding. A dictionary might, for example, accept accented characters when <emphasis >Latin1</emphasis > is selected, but accept email-style character combinations (like <userinput >'a</userinput > for an accented <emphasis >a</emphasis >) when <emphasis >7-Bit-ASCII</emphasis > is selected. Please see your dictionary's distribution for more information.</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term ><guilabel >Client:</guilabel ></term> <listitem> <para >You can choose which of the installed client applications on your system to use. For example, you can choose <command >ispell</command >.</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> </variablelist> </sect1> </article>