<html> <head> <title>Pathetic Writer - Spelling Checking</title> </head> <body> <center> <h1>Spelling Checking</h1> </center> PW has powerful spelling checking, using <i>ispell</i> to do the actual checking. To check the spelling of an entire buffer, select Edit - Spell from the menu. PW will then start ispell and send every word to it for checking. <p> Words that are not in the dictionary will be handed by a separate dialog, which has the original word and a text field where a replacement word can be entered. It is possible that there is already a word in the replacement field, suggested by ispell. Be careful to check that the word is correct; not all suggestions are very helpful. <p> Under the text fields are several buttons. <ul> <li><b>Replace</b> the word in the buffer with the one in the replacement field. <li><b>Accept</b> the word and do not ask again during this session. <li><b>Insert</b> the word permanently into ispell's dictionary. <li><b>Skip</b> the word this once without replacing it. <li><b>Cancel</b> the whole session and do not complete the checking of the rest of the buffer. <li><b>Help</b> brings up the on-line help page (this one!) </ul> If ispell is not available but aspell is, aspell can be used as a replacement by symlinking like this: <pre> ln -s `which aspell` /usr/local/bin/ispell </pre> <hr> <address>Ulric Eriksson - August 2000 - ulric@siag.nu</address> </body> </html>
