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+<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/"
+ type="topic" style="task"
+ id="gedit-spellcheck">
+
+ <info>
+ <link type="guide" xref="gedit-plugin-guide#gedit-default-plugins" />
+ <desc>Check your files for spelling errors.</desc>
+ <revision pkgversion="3.8" date="2013-02-24" status="review"/>
+ <revision pkgversion="3.8" date="2013-03-21" status="review"/>
+
+ <credit type="author">
+ <name>Jim Campbell</name>
+ <email>jcampbell@gnome.org</email>
+ </credit>
+ <credit type="author">
+ <name>Baptiste Mille-Mathias</name>
+ <email>baptistem@gnome.org</email>
+ </credit>
+ <credit type="author">
+ <name>Sindhu S</name>
+ <email>sindhus@live.in</email>
+ </credit>
+
+ <include href="legal.xml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>
+
+ </info>
+
+ <title>Spell-check your document</title>
+ <section id="enable-spell-check">
+ <title>Enable the spell checker</title>
+ <p>The Spell-check feature is provided as a plugin in <app>gedit</app> which
+ can be enabled as required. To enable the plugin:</p>
+
+ <steps>
+ <item>
+ <p>Select <guiseq><gui style="menu">gedit</gui>
+ <gui style="menuitem">Preferences</gui>
+ <gui style="tab">Plugins</gui></guiseq>.</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>Select <gui style="menuitem">Spell Checker</gui> to enable the
+ plugin.</p>
+ </item>
+ </steps>
+
+ </section>
+
+ <section id="spell-check">
+ <title>Spell-check your document</title>
+
+ <p>To check for misspelt words in your document:</p>
+
+ <steps>
+ <item>
+ <p>Select <guiseq><gui style="menu">Tools</gui>
+ <gui style="menuitem">Check Spelling</gui></guiseq>.</p>
+ </item>
+ </steps>
+
+ <note style="tip">
+ <p>To have <app>gedit</app> automatically highlight misspelt words in your
+ document as you type, select <guiseq><gui style="menu">Tools</gui><gui
+ style="menuitem">Highlight Misspelled Words</gui></guiseq>.</p>
+ </note>
+ </section>
+
+ <section id="use-spell-check">
+ <title>Using spell-check</title>
+
+ <p>You can choose the right substitution for misspelt words using the Check
+ Spelling dialog. The misspelt word being checked by the spell-checker is
+ displayed in bold style next to <gui>Misspelled word:</gui>.
+ You can choose from the following corrective actions:</p>
+
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p><gui style="input">Change to:</gui> allows you to input a word and
+ use <gui style="button">Check Word</gui> to check the validity of the
+ spelling.</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p><gui style="menu">Suggestions:</gui> lists the available
+ substitutions for the word.</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p><gui style="button">Ignore</gui> allows you to bypass spell check for
+ <em>a</em> instance of current word.</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p><gui style="button">Ignore All</gui> allows you to bypass spell check
+ for <em>all</em> instances of the current word.</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p><gui style="button">Change</gui> substitutes the misspelt or
+ unrecognized word with <em>a</em> chosen substitute from the
+ <gui style="menuitem">Suggestions:</gui> list.</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p><gui style="button">Change all</gui> substitutes <em>all</em>
+ misspelt or unrecognized words with the chosen substitute from the
+ <gui style="menuitem">Suggestions:</gui> list.</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p><gui style="button">Add word</gui> allows you to add the current word
+ to the <app>gedit</app> <gui>User dictionary</gui>. Adding custom words
+ to the <gui>User dictionary</gui> will allow <app>gedit</app> to
+ recognize the word in documents and thus will not be highlighted as a
+ misspelt word.</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+
+ </section>
+
+ <section id="define-spell-check-language">
+ <title>Define the language to use for spell checking</title>
+ <p>By default, <app>gedit</app> will use your current language to spell
+ check your document. If you need to use another language, choose
+ <guiseq><gui style="menu">Tools</gui><gui style="menuitem">Set
+ Languageā€¦</gui></guiseq>, then choose the language you want to use.</p>
+ </section>
+
+ <section id="dict">
+ <title>Dictionaries</title>
+
+ <p><app>gedit</app> uses
+ <link href="https://www.abisource.com/projects/enchant/">Enchant</link>,
+ a small system utility, for spell checking. Enchant can use
+ several different dictionaries to check your spelling. Two such
+ dictionary back-ends are <em>Hunspell</em> and <em>Aspell</em>.</p>
+
+ <p>If the language you want to use is not available in <app>gedit</app>,
+ use your computer's software installer or package manager to install the
+ dictionary back-end that you want.</p>
+ </section>
+</page>