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<author
> <firstname
>Lauri</firstname
> <surname
>Watts</surname
> </author>

<othercredit role="translator"
><firstname
>Malcolm</firstname
><surname
>Hunter</surname
><affiliation
><address
><email
>malcolm.hunter@gmx.co.uk</email
></address
></affiliation
><contrib
>KDE British Conversion</contrib
></othercredit>
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<date
>2002-02-12</date>
<releaseinfo
>3.00.00</releaseinfo>

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>KDE</keyword>
<keyword
>Spelling</keyword>
<keyword
>dictionary</keyword>
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<sect1 id="spell-checking">

<title
>Spell Checking</title>

<para
>The configuration options available here are used by all &kde; applications that use &kspell;, which is a front end to <command
>ispell</command
> or <command
>aspell</command
>.</para>

<variablelist
> <varlistentry
> <term
><guilabel
>Create root/affix combinations not in dictionary</guilabel
></term
> <listitem
> <para
> </para
> </listitem
> </varlistentry
> <varlistentry
> <term
><guilabel
>Consider run-together words as spelling errors</guilabel
></term
> <listitem
><para
>If this is selected, than words that appear in the dictionary separately, but have been run together, are considered to be spelling errors. For example, even though <quote
>alarm</quote
> and <quote
>clock</quote
> might be in your dictionary, if <quote
>alarmclock</quote
> is not, it will be flagged as a spelling error.</para
></listitem
> </varlistentry
> <varlistentry
> <term
><guilabel
>Dictionary:</guilabel
></term
> <listitem
> <para
>Choose from the available dictionaries, which one to use for &kspell;</para
> </listitem
> </varlistentry
> <varlistentry
> <term
><guilabel
>Encoding:</guilabel
></term
> <listitem
> <para
>You should select the one that matches the character set you are using. In some cases, dictionaries will support more than one encoding. A dictionary might, for example, accept accented characters when <emphasis
>Latin1</emphasis
> is selected, but accept email-style character combinations (like <userinput
>'a</userinput
> for an accented <emphasis
>a</emphasis
>) when <emphasis
>7-Bit-ASCII</emphasis
> is selected. Please see your dictionary's distribution for more information.</para
> </listitem
> </varlistentry
> <varlistentry
> <term
><guilabel
>Client:</guilabel
></term
> <listitem
> <para
>You can choose which of the installed client applications on your system to use. <command
>ispell</command
> </para
> </listitem
> </varlistentry
> </variablelist>

<sect2>
<title
>Section Author</title>
<para
>This section was written by Lauri Watts <email
>lauri@kde.org</email
>, based on the &kspell; manual by David Sweet.</para>

<para
>KDE British Conversion Malcolm Hunter <email
>malcolm.hunter@gmx.co.uk</email
></para>
</sect2>

</sect1>
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