
19. Checking spelling
Amaya provides a multilingual spell checker and selects the appropriate language according to the lang
attribute. The lang attribute can be associated with any element in a document, even with a single word,
using the Attributes tool.
To spell check a document, choose Check spelling from the Tools menu.
19.1. The personal dictionary
When you register a new word, the spell checker creates or updates the user's personal dictionary. A
user's personal dictionary is located in the AmayaHome/dictionary.DCT file. In read-write mode, the
spell checker uses the user dictionary when checking all documents, in addition to the language-specific
dictionaries. When you click the Learn button in the Spell checking dialog, the user dictionary is
created, if does not already exists, and automatically updated by the spelling checker.
19.2. The spell check dialog
The Tools / Check spelling command displays a dialog that enables you to choose parameters and
interact with the spell checker.
• The top left field displays an incorrect word. 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 edited on there. The correction is made when
you click the Replace and next button.
Note that you can also perform the correction by double-clicking a proposed correction.
• The language in which the correction is made is specified in the bottom left corner of the
dialog. To change language, apply a lang attribute to the text with the Attributes tool, and
restart the spell checker.
• The Ignore 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).
• The Checking section, similar to that in the Search dialog, enables you to specify the part of
document on which the checker will work.
19.3. Running the spell checker
Before running the spell checker, make sure the current selection is in the document you want to check.
For the spell checker, the source code is different from the formatted document. If the current selection is
in the source view, all the markup will be checked, including tags, attributes, etc. If the selection is in the
formatted view, only the content of the document will be checked.
To start the checker, click the Search/Skip button at the bottom of the dialog. If an error is found, the
incorrect word is selected and highlighted in the document. If no error was detected a message "End of
spell checking" is displayed at the bottom of the dialog.
When an incorrect word is detected, you can use a button on the dialog to perform the following
operations:
• Search/Skip: The incorrect word is acceptable. No change is made in the text or in the
dictionaries. The checker searches for the next error.
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