EasiWriter has a powerful multi-lingual spell checker that lets you:
EasiWriter will normally check words against a British English dictionary but dictionaries are available from Icon Technology for American English and most of the European languages.
You can apply a language attribute to anything from a single word to the entire document in just the same way as you can apply a font. If you have the appropriate dictionary for text in a given language, EasiWriter will spell check using it, otherwise the text will be ignored.
You can also assign 'None' as the language for text that you do not want checked. For example on the next page 'london' and 'aCOrn' would normally be rejected by the spelling checker. Selecting them and choosing None from the Country menu forces EasiWriter's spelling checker to ignore them.
As soon as you complete a word, by typing a space or return, EasiWriter checks to see if it can find it in either the main or user dictionary. If it is not found then it will beep. You can:
EasiWriter will remember mistakes while you are typing but will forget them if you click the mouse or issue a command.
The entire document will be checked and the spelling dialogue box will show you the number of words checked and number of words to correct.
The selected text will be checked and the spelling dialogue box will show you the number of words checked and number of words to correct.
Whenever you check a selection or the entire document EasiWriter displays the number of words checked in the bottom left corner of the Spelling dialogue box.
This is not necessarily the same as the number of words in the document. You can see the number of words in a document by choosing Info from the Misc menu.
After choosing Correct, Check all or Check selection from the Spelling menu the following dialogue box will appear:
Suspect words are shown in a writable icon at the top of the dialogue box with guesses shown in a scrollable list below.
The instances where the word occurred are shown in another scrollable list at the bottom of the dialogue box.
If misspelled words start with a capital letter or are all capitals the capitalisation will be retained when replaced. A word is considered questionable if
You can edit the word or choose one of the suggestions by clicking or move to it with the arrow keys. You can then:
After all the corrections have been made, a dialogue is displayed giving a summary of the number of words checked. Click Done to return to the document.
If your document contains words that have been marked as being in a different language EasiWriter will automatically try to use the correct dictionary to spell check them. If you do not have the appropriate dictionary they will be ignored, as will words given the language 'None'.
You can view and edit the words in your user dictionary at any time.
The following dialogue box will appear where you can:
Only use capital letters if they are a requirement for correct spelling. e.g. 'EasiWriter', 'London' but 'acorn' (it also grows on trees).