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<FILENAME filename="index.html"><html><head><title>Spell Checker</title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="help:/kdoctools5-common/kde-default.css"><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="help:/kdoctools5-common/kde-docs.css"><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="help:/kdoctools5-common/kde-localised.css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets Vsnapshot"><meta name="keywords" content="KDE, Spelling, dictionary"><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="Spell Checker"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="GENERATOR" content="KDE XSL Stylesheet V1.14 using libxslt"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div id="content"><div id="header"><div id="header_content"><div id="header_left"><div id="header_right"><img src="help:/kdoctools5-common/top-kde.jpg" width="36" height="34"> Spell Checker</div></div></div></div><div class="navCenter"><table class="navigation"><tr><td class="prevCell"></td><td class="upCell"> </td><td class="nextCell"></td></tr></table></div><div id="contentBody"><div lang="en" class="article"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title"><a name="spellchecking"></a>Spell Checker</h2></div><div><div class="authorgroup"><p class="author"><span class="firstname">Lauri</span> <span class="surname">Watts</span> <code class="email">&lt;lauri@kde.org&gt;</code></p></div></div><div>Revision <span class="releaseinfo">Plasma 5.20 (<span class="date">2021-04-08</span>)</span></div></div><hr></div><div class="toc"><p><b>Table of Contents</b></p><dl class="toc"><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="index.html#spellchecker">Spell Checker</a></span></dt><dd><dl><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="index.html#spell-options">Options</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="index.html#idm59">Ignored words</a></span></dt></dl></dd></dl></div><div class="sect1"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="spellchecker"></a>Spell Checker</h2></div></div></div><p>The configuration options available here are used as default by all <span class="orgname">KDE</span>
applications that use <span class="application">Sonnet</span>, which is a frontend to various free spell checkers.</p><p>To use <span class="application">Sonnet</span> you need to install spell checkers like <abbr class="abbrev">e.g.</abbr> 
<a class="ulink" href="http://aspell.net/" target="_top"><acronym class="acronym">GNU</acronym> Aspell</a>,
<a class="ulink" href="http://hspell.ivrix.org.il/" target="_top">Hspell</a> or 
<a class="ulink" href="https://hunspell.github.io/" target="_top">Hunspell</a>
and additionally the corresponding dictionaries for your language.</p><p>The configuration options selected here can be overridden by each application.</p><p>In the drop down box <span xmlns:doc="http://nwalsh.com/xsl/documentation/1.0" class="guiitem"><span class="guilabel">Default language</span></span> choose from the 
available dictionaries, which one to use for <span class="application">Sonnet</span>. </p><div class="sect2"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="spell-options"></a>Options</h3></div></div></div><div class="variablelist"><dl class="variablelist"><dt><span class="term"><span xmlns:doc="http://nwalsh.com/xsl/documentation/1.0" class="guiitem"><span class="guilabel">Enable autodetection of language</span></span></span></dt><dd><p>This feature is based on several heuristics (script used, trigram matching and 
language ranking on available languages in the spell-checking backend). 
This allows it to automatically switch language in a multi-language document.
</p></dd><dt><span class="term"><span xmlns:doc="http://nwalsh.com/xsl/documentation/1.0" class="guiitem"><span class="guilabel">Automatic spell checking enabled by default</span></span></span></dt><dd><p>If a mark is placed in this checkbox, the spelling of words will be check in your document 
as you type them. Misspelled will have a red line drawn under them.
</p></dd><dt><span class="term"><span xmlns:doc="http://nwalsh.com/xsl/documentation/1.0" class="guiitem"><span class="guilabel">Skip all uppercase words</span></span></span></dt><dd><p>If a mark is placed in this checkbox, the spelling of any word which consists of all capital 
letters will not be checked.</p><div class="tip" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;"><h3 class="title">Tip</h3><p>This is useful for document using a large number of acronyms. If this box is left unchecked, 
most of those acronyms will be incorrectly marked. By placing a mark in this checkbox, 
the acronyms will not be marked as misspelled.</p></div></dd><dt><span class="term"><span xmlns:doc="http://nwalsh.com/xsl/documentation/1.0" class="guiitem"><span class="guilabel">Skip run-together words</span></span></span></dt><dd><p>If this box is not checked, then words that appear in the
dictionary separately, but have been run together, are considered to be
spelling errors. Examples of such words are shutout, cannot, and blackout.
</p><div class="tip" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;"><h3 class="title">Tip</h3><p>Checking this box will help prevent applications from flagging website and email addresses 
for spelling errors. These addresses often contain words run together.</p></div></dd></dl></div></div><div class="sect2"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="idm59"></a>Ignored words</h3></div></div></div><p>The bottom half of the dialog box allows you to designate specific words (they may be specialized terminology, proper names, <abbr class="abbrev">etc.</abbr>) which
should be ignored by the spelling program.</p><div class="sect3"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h4 class="title"><a name="idm63"></a>Adding a word to the ignore list</h4></div></div></div><p>To add a word, type the word in the text box and click the <span xmlns:doc="http://nwalsh.com/xsl/documentation/1.0" class="guiitem"><span class="guibutton">Add</span></span> button.</p></div><div class="sect3"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h4 class="title"><a name="idm67"></a>Deleting a word from the ignore list</h4></div></div></div><p>To remove a word, select the word in the listbox containing all the currently ignored words by clicking on it with
the <span class="mousebutton">left</span> mouse button.  Now click the <span xmlns:doc="http://nwalsh.com/xsl/documentation/1.0" class="guiitem"><span class="guibutton">Remove</span></span> button.</p><p>When you are happy with the changes, simply click
<span xmlns:doc="http://nwalsh.com/xsl/documentation/1.0" class="guiitem"><span class="guibutton">Apply</span></span>.</p><p>Clicking on the <span xmlns:doc="http://nwalsh.com/xsl/documentation/1.0" class="guiitem"><span class="guibutton">Defaults</span></span> button restores all
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