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Spelling preferences
The Spelling category in the Preferences dialog box sets the following spelling options:
Check Spelling as you type — Controls whether Arbortext Editor will automatically check for spelling errors in your document and flag suspect words with a red wavy underline.
Ignore tags in configuration list — Controls whether the spelling checker will ignore the content of elements that are specified in the document type configuration file. The words in the ignored tags do not contribute to the total number of checked words.
Language — Provides a list of language dictionaries to use when checking spelling, including medical or legal dictionaries.
User Dictionary Path — Displays the user dictionary path name, if any.
To modify the path, click on the This is an image of a button containing ellipses. button next to option. This opens the Edit Preference dialog box. See Specifying the location of user-defined dictionaries for more information.
Ignore repeated words — Determines whether the same word occurring twice in succession, such as the the, is ignored during spell checking.
Ignore internet and file addresses — Determines whether internet addresses (content starting with with http://, https://, file://, ftp://, and mailto:), absolute file paths (content that begins with /, \\, or X:\), and E-mail addresses are ignored during spell checking.
Ignore numerals and Roman numerals — Determines whether all Arabic and Roman numerals are ignored during spell checking.
Ignore words with numbers — Determines whether words containing combinations of alphabetic and numeric characters, such as ten4 or dos2unix, are ignored during spell checking.
Flag suspect sentence capitalization — Determines whether words following a terminal punctuation mark (such as a period) that are not capitalized or uncapitalized words following abbreviations are flagged during spell checking.