Trubar spelling checker is very easy to use. All you have to normally do is to upload a file you wold like to check.
You can spellcheck a file on your local directory or a string you typed in field String.
Upload a file to perform spellchek. Select the Browser button to choose a file to upload. Use directory path and filename as you see it on your system, not URL address. This feature only works with Netscape 2.0 and later browsers. Sorry, Internet Explorer does not support it. In that case you can put your file on clipboard and paste it into string field.
Letters, digits, and spaces are allowed in the file name.
Examples:
\home\luser\files\document.txtG:\tmp\homework.texIf you want to spellchek only some words, you don't need to upload a file. Type-in a string below. If the string is non-empty, the file will not be processed. When you press the Do spellcheck button, this script will perform spellchek, count the number of lines, words, and characters in the file.
The beta2 and later versions of Netscape 2.0 currently doesn't pay any attention to this field, and so the starting value will always be blank. Worse, the field loses its 'sticky' behavior and forgets its previous contents. The starting value field is called for in the HTML specification, however, and possibly later versions of Netscape will honor it.
If you want to spellcheck a string, enter it. The string can be one million characters long, so it could be actually a whole file. If you have also defined a filename, only string will be checked. To spellcheck the file, empty the string first.
Use encoding for Slovene language, supported by your WWW browser, and select appropriate input encoding.
Select the language of your document. It affects main dictionary selection.
Languages:
Main dictionary for Slovene language still lacks many legal words.
Select the format of your document. Formatting commands are stripped off before processing.
The Unformatted option defines that document does not contain any formatting information but only text.
The nroff option selects whether ispell runs in nroff or troff mode.
The Wordstar option selects wordstar as input format.
TeX instructs TeX or LaTeX input mode. In TeX/LaTeX mode, whenever a backslash ("\") is found, ispell will skip to the next whitespace or TeX/LaTeX delimiter. Certain commands contain arguments which should not be checked, such as labels and reference keys as are found in the \cite command, since they contain arbitrary, non-word arguments. Spell checking is also suppressed when in math mode.
The TeX option does not recognize the TeX comment character "%", so comments are also spell- checked. It also assumes correct LaTeX syntax. Arguments to infrequently used commands and some optional arguments are sometimes checked unnecessarily. The bibliography will be checked but the reference key will not. References for the tib(1) bibliography system, that is, text between a ``[.'' or ``<.'' and ``.]'' or ``.>'' will always be ignored in TeX mode.
Input encoding instructs pre-processor to convert characters from your encoded file to expected main dictionary encoding. Non-standardized input encodings will work only for Slovene language. See also character table or the same table in ISO Latin 2 encoding.
Default input encoding for language slovensko is Latin2. Select default option if the file is already in this encoding. Other selections are mostly non-compatible with other languages.
Example:
The option may be used to change the length of words that spellchecker always accepts as legal. Normally, ispell will accept all 1-character words as legal. If you want all words to be checked against the dictionary, regardless of length, you might want to specify "none". On the other hand, if your document specifies a lot of three-letter acronyms, you would specify "3" to accept all words of three letters or less. Regardless of the setting of this option, ispell will only generate words that are in the dictionary as suggested replacements for words; this prevents the list from becoming too long. Obviously, this option can be very dangerous, since short misspellings may be missed. If you use this option a lot, you should probably make a last pass without it before you publish your document, to protect yourself against errors.
This option controls how spellchecker treats run-together words, such as "barefoot" or "notthe" for "not the". If spelling errors is specified, such words will be considered as errors, and spellchecker will list variations with an inserted blank or hyphen as possible replacements. If legal compounds is specified, run-together words will be considered to be legal compounds, so long as both components are in the dictionary, and each component is at least as long as a language-dependent minimum (3 characters, by default). This is useful for languages such as German and Norwegian, where many compound words are formed by concatenation. (Note that compounds formed from three or more root words will still be considered errors). The default for this option is language-dependent; in a multi-lingual installation the default may vary depending on which dictionary you choose.
The option suppresses spellchecker's normal behavior of sorting the list of possible replacement words. Some people may prefer this, since it somewhat enhances the probability that the correct word will be low-numbered.
If there are "near misses" in the dictionary (words which differ by only a single letter, a missing or extra letter, a pair of transposed letters, or a missing space or hyphen), then they are also displayed. As well as "near misses", ispell may display other guesses at ways to make the word from a known root, with each guess preceded by question marks.
Two words are near each other if they can be made identical with one of the following changes to one of the words:
Someday, perhaps ispell will be extended so that words that sound alike would also be considered near misses. If you would like to implement this, see Knuth, Volume 3, page 392 for a description of the Soundex algorithm which might apply.
If you don't want near misses, instruct to produce only a list of unknown words.
Ales Kosir $Date: 1996/11/22 21:10:01 $