><anchor id="spelldlg"/> The top line in the dialogue displays a possibly misspelled word which was found in your document. &tdespell; attempts to find an appropriate replacement word. One or several may be found. The best guess is shown to the right of <guilabel
>. To accept this replacement, click on <guibutton
>Replace</guibutton
>. You may also select a word from the list of <guilabel
>Suggestions</guilabel
> and then click <guibutton
>Replace</guibutton
> to replace the misspelled word with the selected word.</para>
<para
>To keep your original spelling, click on <guilabel
>Ignore</guilabel
>.</para>
<para
>To stop the spell checking -- keeping the changes you've already made -- click on <guibutton
>Stop</guibutton
>.</para>
<para
>To stop the spell checking and cancel the changes you've already made, click on <guibutton
>Cancel</guibutton
>.</para>
<para
>Clicking on <guibutton
>Replace All</guibutton
> will initially perform the same function as clicking on <guibutton
>Replace</guibutton
>, but will automatically replace the misspelled word with the chosen replacement word, if it appears again (at a later point) in your document.</para>
<para
>The <guibutton
>Ignore All</guibutton
> button ignores this and all future occurrences of the misspelled word.</para>
<para
>Clicking on <guibutton
>Add</guibutton
> will add the misspelled word to your personal dictionary (this is distinct from the original system dictionary, so the additions you make will not be seen by other users).</para>
</sect1>
</chapter>
<chapter id="configuration-dialog">
<title
>Configuration Dialogue </title>
<anchor id="configuration"/>
<sect1 id="dictionaries">
<title
>Dictionaries</title>
<para
>You can choose the dictionary to use for spell checking from the list of installed dictionaries.</para>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="encodings">
<title
>Encodings</title>
<para
>The most commonly used character encodings are: <variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term
>US-ASCII</term>
<listitem>
<para
>This is the character set used for English text.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term
>ISO-8859-1</term>
<listitem>
<para
>This is used for Western European languages.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term
>UTF-8</term>
<listitem>
<para
>This is a Unicode encoding that can be used for almost any language, if your system has the necessary fonts.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</para>
<para
>You should select the one that matches the character set you are using. In some cases, dictionaries will support more than one encoding. A dictionary might, for example, accept accented characters when <guilabel
>ISO-8859-1</guilabel
> is selected, but accept email-style character combinations (like <literal
>'a</literal
> for an accented <literal
>a</literal
>) when <guilabel
>US-ASCII</guilabel
> is selected. Please see your dictionary's distribution for more information.</para>