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<bookinfo>
<title
>The &kspell; Handbook</title>
<authorgroup>
<author
>&David.Sweet; &David.Sweet.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
>2003-02-24</date>
<releaseinfo
>1.00.00</releaseinfo>
<abstract>
<para
>&kspell; is the spelling checker used by &kde; applications such as &kate;, &kmail;, and &kword;. It is a <acronym
>GUI</acronym
> frontend to <application
>International ISpell</application
> and <application
>ASpell</application
>.</para>

</abstract>
<keywordset>
<keyword
>spell</keyword>
<keyword
>spelling</keyword>
<keyword
>kspell</keyword>
<keyword
>ispell</keyword>
<keyword
>aspell</keyword>
<keyword
>check</keyword>
<keyword
>checker</keyword>
<keyword
>KDE</keyword>
</keywordset>
</bookinfo>

<chapter id="misspelled-word-dialog">
<title
>Misspelled Word Dialogue</title>

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<para
>(If you do not have <application
>Ispell</application
> installed you can obtain it from the <ulink url="http://fmg-www.cs.ucla.edu/geoff/ispell.html"
>International ISpell home page</ulink
>. ASpell is available from the <ulink url="http://aspell.sourceforge.net/"
>ASpell home page</ulink
>.) </para>

<sect1 id="general-use">
<title
>General Use</title>

<para
><anchor id="spelldlg"/> The top line in the dialogue displays a possibly misspelled word which was found in your document. &kspell; attempts to find an appropriate replacement word. One or several may be found. The best guess is shown to the right of <guilabel
>Replacement:</guilabel
>. To accept this replacement, click on <guibutton
>Replace</guibutton
>. You may also select a word from the list of <guilabel
>Suggestions</guilabel
> and then click <guibutton
>Replace</guibutton
> to replace the misspelled word with the selected word.</para>

<para
>To keep your original spelling, click on <guilabel
>Ignore</guilabel
>.</para>

<para
>To stop the spell checking -- keeping the changes you've already made -- click on <guibutton
>Stop</guibutton
>.</para>

<para
>To stop the spell checking and cancel the changes you've already made, click on <guibutton
>Cancel</guibutton
>.</para>

<para
>Clicking on <guibutton
>Replace All</guibutton
> will initially perform the same function as clicking on <guibutton
>Replace</guibutton
>, but will automatically replace the misspelled word with the chosen replacement word, if it appears again (at a later point) in your document.</para>

<para
>The <guibutton
>Ignore All</guibutton
> button ignores this and all future occurrences of the misspelled word.</para>

<para
>Clicking on <guibutton
>Add</guibutton
> will add the misspelled word to your personal dictionary (this is distinct from the original system dictionary, so the additions you make will not be seen by other users).</para>
</sect1>
</chapter>

<chapter id="configuration-dialog">
<title
>Configuration Dialogue </title>
<anchor id="configuration"/>

<sect1 id="dictionaries">
<title
>Dictionaries</title>

<para
>You can choose the dictionary to use for spell checking from the list of installed dictionaries.</para>
</sect1>

<sect1 id="encodings">
<title
>Encodings</title>

<para
>The most commonly used character encodings are: <variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term
>US-ASCII</term>
<listitem>
<para
>This is the character set used for English text.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term
>ISO-8859-1</term>
<listitem>
<para
>This is used for Western European languages.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term
>UTF-8</term>
<listitem>
<para
>This is a Unicode encoding that can be used for almost any language, if your system has the necessary fonts.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</para>

<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 <guilabel
>ISO-8859-1</guilabel
> is selected, but accept email-style character combinations (like <literal
>'a</literal
> for an accented <literal
>a</literal
>) when <guilabel
>US-ASCII</guilabel
> is selected. Please see your dictionary's distribution for more information.</para>
</sect1>

<sect1 id="spell-checking-client">
<title
>Spell-checking client</title>

<para
>You may choose to use <application
>Ispell</application
> or <application
>Aspell</application
> as the spell-checking backend for &kspell;. <application
>Ispell</application
> is more widely available and may have better international support, but <application
>Aspell</application
> is gaining popularity as it claims to give better suggestions for word replacements.</para>
</sect1>

<sect1 id="other">
<title
>Other</title>

<para
>It is recommend that you do not change the first two options unless you have read the International <application
>ISpell</application
> man page.</para>
</sect1>
</chapter>

<chapter id="contact-information">
<title
>Contact Information</title>

<para
>For more information about &kspell;, visit the <ulink url="http://www.chaos.umd.edu/~dsweet/KDE/KSpell"
>&kspell; Home Page</ulink
>. In particular, you will find information about programming the &kspell; C++ class.</para>

<para
>You may email the author/maintainer with questions and/or comments at &David.Sweet.mail;.</para>

<para
>Conversion to British English: Malcolm Hunter <email
>malcolm.hunter@gmx.co.uk</email
></para
> 

</chapter>
&documentation.index; 
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