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SPELLING.HLP
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FAULT FINDER (AltZ)
You may check your spelling in any file currently active in PC-TYPE+
by pressing AltZ (remember the mnemonic "a through z"), (or, F8-F6).
When you do this, PC-TYPE+ will begin checking your spelling at the
first word past the current cursor position toward the end of the
file. If you press the Esc key, the checking will stop.
When a sequence of letters is found which does not appear in the
dictionary of approximately 100,000 words, a message will be displayed
on the message line and the cursor will be on the beginning of the
string of characters in which the sequence of letters could not be
found. If it is okay, just press AltZ again and it will continue.
If it is not okay, correct the spelling and press AltZ to continue.
If you press CtrlZ where a mismatch occurred, PC-TYPE+ will add that
word to a special file which you can incorporate into the dictionary
later.
Press the PgDn Key
CHECKING THE SPELLING OF JUST ONE WORD
If you are in doubt about the spelling of a particular word, you may
place the cursor on the first letter of the word to check and press
Ctrl O (O for One word, not zero). Fault Finder will check this one
word against the list of words in its dictionary and let you know if
it found a match or not.
For this option to find the word, your cursor must be on the first
letter of the word, and the word must not be split at a hyphen,
e.g., "cre-" on one line and "ate" on the next.
With normal operation of Fault Finder, the hyphenated words will be
checked correctly.
Press the PgDn Key
DOUBLE WORDS
Fault Finder will also find any repeated words, such as "the the", and
place the cursor on the beginning of the second word in the repeat
sequence. If you are typing a letter about Walla Walla, Washington,
however, you might like to override this feature.
When the message is displayed pertaining to the double words, press
CtrlZ instead of AltZ. "Walla" will then be added to the short
internal list of words and "Walla Walla" will be skipped from that
point on.
PCTYPE.ADD File
Whenever you press CtrlZ, the word under the cursor will be added to
the file PCTYPE.ADD which you can merge into the master dictionary at
a later time. Fault Finder does not read PCTYPE.ADD.
Press the PgDn Key
DEFINING a PATH to the DICTIONARY
There are 5 support files to Fault Finder:
PCTYPE.DIC - the Dictionary itself
PCTYPE.ADD - the file of words to add to the dictionary
PCMERG.EXE - the program to merge PCTYPE.ADD into PCTYPE.DIC
SPCHK.OVL - the Fault Finder logic
MMERG.OVL - replacement logic
These files MUST be in the same directory, wherever it is. We
STRONGLY recommend that you place these files in a directory of their
own. We default to the directory \pct_dic on your A drive.
If PC-TYPE+ cannot find these files when you press AltZ, you will be
asked to provide the correct path. You may set this path as a default
by pressing F8-F2 so you won't have to keep answering this question.
Press the PgDn Key
FAULT FINDER MATCHING LOGIC
The following rules are applied to the word matching process:
(1) All single letters are accepted.
(2) " 's " is dropped from the end of any word where these two
characters are found.
(3) Any non-alpha character is treated as a space. Hence,
"right-handed" would be checked as "right" and as "handed".
(4) Any word to be checked MUST be within the currently defined
margins of PC-TYPE+.
(5) Words ending with "- " are assumed to be hyphenated. The next
word after the "-" will be appended if both halves do not check
independently.
Press the PgDn Key
FAULT FINDER and MARGINS
Fault Finder will only check those words which are within the margins
specified. Thus, if you have two columns of information, as below,
you can set the margins to some of your text in this manner.
the the edges of both col- <- If a word straddles a margin, it
umns, and then Fault Finder will probably be flagged as an
will only look at that spe- <- error. Any word outside a margin
cific column. This can be will be ignored.
very useful if you organize
A hyphenated word at the end of such a column (as shown by the "<-"s),
will be treated properly if the margins are set to the left and right
extremes of the column.
Press the PgDn Key
PCMERGE.EXE
You may add any number of words to the PCTYPE.DIC dictionary file.
To do so, you run PCMERGE.EXE which should be with your PCTYPE.DIC
file.
Every time you press CtrlZ, the word you are on is added to the file
PCTYPE.ADD, preceded by the letter "a" for ADD. You may edit this
file with PC-TYPE+ and add additional words if you wish, or delete
words by inserting a line such as (one word per line):
d finished
which would remove the word "finished" from the dictionary. To run
PCMERGE, YOU MUST BE IN THE DIRECTORY where all these files are
located. When PCTYPE.ADD is as you want it, just type PCMERGE.
(Duplicate words will be processed for you, so don't worry too much
about cleaning up the file).
Press the PgDn Key
ADDING WORDS to your DICTIONARY
┌─────────┐ ┌───────────────┐ ┌──────────┐
│ │ │ │ │PCTYPE.ADD│
│ Text │ edit │ │ CtrlZ in │ │
│ file ----------- PC-TYPE+ ---------------- │
│ │ │ │ Fault Finder │ a xyz │
│ │ +---- │ │ a afg │
└─────────┘ | └───────────────┘ │ . │
| │ . │
| ┌───────────────┐ │ d yes │
┌────────────┐ | │ │ │ │
│ ---+---- ---------------- │
│ Dictionary │ │ PC-MERGE │ └──────────┘
│ -------- │
│ │ └───────────────┘
└────────────┘
Press the PgDn Key
SAMPLE FAULT FINDER SESSION
In addition to adding the word to the file "PCTYPE.ADD", CtrlZ will
also add the word to a temporary internal list of words so that you
do not have to always stop at the same word.
(*) This temporary list is limited in size to about 40 words. It will
disappear when the current Fault Finder session is complted.
└─────────────────────┐
Move the cursor to asterisk above and press AltZ. If you are asked
for the path, you should enter the correct path to the PC-TYPE+ dic-
tionary. The cursor will first stop above on the misspelling of "com-
pleted". Press AltZ again and the cursor will stop on AltZ above.
Press Ctrl Z and you will see that it will not stop on the second
AltZ. "AltZ" should now have been added to the list of words to add
to the the dictionary in the file "PCTYPE.ADD". Notice that the
hyphenated words were not marked as errors.
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