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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.
-
- Press F4 to Return to the HELP Menu