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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
Language…</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>
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