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<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>

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<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>
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