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<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/"
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type="topic" style="task"
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id="gedit-spellcheck">
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<info>
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<link type="guide" xref="gedit-plugin-guide#gedit-default-plugins" />
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<desc>Check your files for spelling errors.</desc>
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</info>
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<title>Spell-check your document</title>
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<section id="enable-spell-check">
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<title>Enable the spell checker</title>
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<p>The Spell-check feature is provided as a plugin in <app>gedit</app> which
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can be enabled as required. To enable the plugin:</p>
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<steps>
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<item>
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<p>Select <guiseq><gui style="menu">gedit</gui>
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<gui style="menuitem">Preferences</gui>
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<gui style="tab">Plugins</gui></guiseq>.</p>
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</item>
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<item>
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<p>Select <gui style="menuitem">Spell Checker</gui> to enable the
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plugin.</p>
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</item>
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</steps>
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</section>
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<section id="spell-check">
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<title>Spell-check your document</title>
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<p>To check for misspelt words in your document:</p>
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<steps>
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<item>
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<p>Select <guiseq><gui style="menu">Tools</gui>
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<gui style="menuitem">Check Spelling</gui></guiseq>.</p>
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</item>
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</steps>
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<note style="tip">
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<p>To have <app>gedit</app> automatically highlight misspelt words in your
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document as you type, select <guiseq><gui style="menu">Tools</gui><gui
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style="menuitem">Highlight Misspelled Words</gui></guiseq>.</p>
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</note>
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</section>
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<section id="use-spell-check">
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<title>Using spell-check</title>
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<p>You can choose the right substitution for misspelt words using the Check
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Spelling dialog. The misspelt word being checked by the spell-checker is
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displayed in bold style next to <gui>Misspelled word:</gui>.
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You can choose from the following corrective actions:</p>
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<list>
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<item>
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<p><gui style="input">Change to:</gui> allows you to input a word and
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use <gui style="button">Check Word</gui> to check the validity of the
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spelling.</p>
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</item>
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<item>
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<p><gui style="menu">Suggestions:</gui> lists the available
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substitutions for the word.</p>
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</item>
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<item>
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<p><gui style="button">Ignore</gui> allows you to bypass spell check for
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<em>a</em> instance of current word.</p>
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</item>
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<item>
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<p><gui style="button">Ignore All</gui> allows you to bypass spell check
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for <em>all</em> instances of the current word.</p>
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</item>
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<item>
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<p><gui style="button">Change</gui> substitutes the misspelt or
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unrecognized word with <em>a</em> chosen substitute from the
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<gui style="menuitem">Suggestions:</gui> list.</p>
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</item>
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<item>
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<p><gui style="button">Change all</gui> substitutes <em>all</em>
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misspelt or unrecognized words with the chosen substitute from the
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<gui style="menuitem">Suggestions:</gui> list.</p>
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</item>
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<item>
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<p><gui style="button">Add word</gui> allows you to add the current word
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to the <app>gedit</app> <gui>User dictionary</gui>. Adding custom words
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to the <gui>User dictionary</gui> will allow <app>gedit</app> to
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recognize the word in documents and thus will not be highlighted as a
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misspelt word.</p>
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</item>
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</list>
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</section>
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<section id="define-spell-check-language">
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<title>Define the language to use for spell checking</title>
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<p>By default, <app>gedit</app> will use your current language to spell
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check your document. If you need to use another language, choose
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<guiseq><gui style="menu">Tools</gui><gui style="menuitem">Set
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Language…</gui></guiseq>, then choose the language you want to use.</p>
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</section>
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<section id="dict">
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<title>Dictionaries</title>
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<p><app>gedit</app> uses
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<link href="https://www.abisource.com/projects/enchant/">Enchant</link>,
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a small system utility, for spell checking. Enchant can use
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several different dictionaries to check your spelling. Two such
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dictionary back-ends are <em>Hunspell</em> and <em>Aspell</em>.</p>
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<p>If the language you want to use is not available in <app>gedit</app>,
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use your computer's software installer or package manager to install the
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dictionary back-end that you want.</p>
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</section>
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</page>
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