| Spell
Check
Enabling
Spell Check
How Spellcheck Works
Editing the Dictionary
Personal Spelling Words
Resources
Enabling
Spell Check
To enable
checking of spelling in messages and discussion descriptions,
turn on the checkbox in the Control Panel
> General settings > Spell Check. This causes a Check
Spelling button to appear next to the Post button in post
message forms and add discussion forms.
Figure
1 - Screenshot from Spell Check area of Control Panel
How
Spell Check Works
When
the user clicks on Check Spelling, Web Crossing checks for misspelled
words. If none are found, the post is processed normally. If words
are found which are not in Web Crossing's dictionary, the user
sees a spell check page with the misspelled words highlighted
in red and some logical choices supplied in a popup menu. The
word choice Web Crossing thinks is most logical is placed in the
default position.
Figure
2 - Spell Check Page
Figure
3 - Spell Check Page with popup menu shown
Figure
4 - Spell Check Page with "spelling" chosen as the correct
version.
Figure
5 - Final post with corrected word.
The
user selects the correct word from the popup menu, or selects
From text box: and types in the replacement word. If the
user selects the same spelling as the original, the word is considered
to be "Ignored" and it is added to Web Crossing's list
of ignored words. This list can be used to build a new spell check
dictionary.
Clicking
Post will post the message; clicking Check Spelling
will check for further errors. Edit allows the user to
edit the post directly without the Check Spelling interface.
Personal
Spelling Words
Under
Preferences, each user can specify a number of personal spelling
words which will not be flagged by the Web Crossing spell checker.
Editing
the Dictionary
It's
possible for the sysop to edit the default dictionary supplied
with Web Crossing.
- Go
to the Control Panel > General settings
> Spell Check (see screenshot above) and click Export
Site Dictionary to wordList.
- A
text box will appear, filled with words the users have ignored.
Unless you edit this list and remove the ignored words
from the list, they will become part of the wordList
file.
- When
you have edited the file as you wish, click OK.
- The
wordList file will be filled with words from the dictionary
plus the ignored words you retained. Go back to the Control
Panel and click Convert wordList to a new site dictionary.
- Your
new wordList file will be imported into Web Crossing
to serve as the new site dictionary.
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