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tspell
Description
Performs a spell check.
 
Example 59. Check the spelling of a selected word
To look up the spelling of a word, you could use the macro shown below, where 'word' is the word that you want to look up.
tspell 0, "word"
 
Example 60. Check the spelling of a particular word selected by the text selection macro
You can restrict spell checking to a particular word or paragraph by preceding the tspell macro with a text selection macro, e.g.
ttpara:tspell 6
Syntax
tspell batch_mode:n? stream_name:t? ( mode:n string:s? )
tspell
[no parameter]
Check the current stream from the start
batch_mode
Ø
Normal mode
2
Batch mode
stream_name
The name of the text stream to be checked.
Ø
Check current stream
0
Check 1 word (enter word to be checked in string)
1
Check all streams
5
Review 'leave' words
6
Check selected text
7
Check current stream from cursor
9
Thesaurus
Stream codes or, where mode has a value of 0, a word to look up.
t
Normal text tags
s
Style tags
r
Reference tags
g
Graphic text tags
b
Bullet tags
f
Footnote tags
e
Exception dictionary tags
i
Index stream tags
c
Contents stream tags
m
Comment stream tags
s
Script tags
d
Dictionary tags
U
Fonts
u
Truetype fonts
x
All tags
mode
Ø
Check current stream
0
Check 1 word (enter word to be checked in string)
1
Check all streams
5
Review 'leave' words
6
Check selected text
7
Check current stream from cursor
9
Thesaurus
string
A single word to be looked up
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