Using the Hunspell Spell Checker

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Using the Hunspell Spell Checker in memoQ

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Contents ...... 2 Setting up the Hunspell spell checker for your language ...... 3 Using the Hunspell spell checker during translation ...... 6

This guide covers memoQ 2014 and higher settings for Hunspell. It contains text items from the English user interface of the program. These items are under constant verification and are subject to change without prior notification.

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Setting up the Hunspell spell checker for your language

memoQ installs the Hunspell spell checker, an open-source application used in OpenOffice.org and Mozilla Firefox/Thunderbird. The most important benefits of using Hunspell are the following: . You no longer need to use Microsoft Word’s spell checker, which is not always available.1 . Spell checking becomes significantly faster in memoQ. . You can check spelling in practically any language. . You can spell check as you type. memoQ uses Hunspell for on-the-fly spelling when you have configured a Hunspell dictionary for your target language in Options > Spell settings. memoQ does not include any particular spelling dictionaries for Hunspell. Before you can use Hun- spell for a language of your choice, you need to set up the appropriate dictionaries. To set up dictionaries for a particular language, follow the steps below: 1. Start memoQ.

2. From the Tools menu or in the Quick Access Toolbar in memoQ 2014 R2, choose Options. In the category list to the left, click Spelling and grammar.

3. From the Language-dependent settings drop-down list, select the language you want to set up for Hunspell.

4. Choose the Hunspell radio button. Use the Hunspell options for the curly lines (spell checking while you type) and for the Spell checking dialog (when you press F7 to run spell checking). If you have not used the spell checker for this language, the Hunspell dictionaries list will be empty.

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5. Click the Look for more dictionaries online link below the list. The Download Hunspell dictionaries dialog appears. Click Check at the top right. memoQ connects to the OpenOffice servers for dictionaries in the selected language. This might take up to one or two minutes. memoQ then dis- plays the list of dictionaries found:

6. Leave all check boxes checked, then click Download checked items. memoQ will download and in- stall the selected dictionaries. The installed dictionaries will be listed in the Hunspell dictionaries list:

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7. If none of the dictionaries have their check boxes checked, select one. If you select a dictionary in the list, and then click the Info link to the bottom right, memoQ will display the release notes that were downloaded along with the dictionary.

8. If you want to set up dictionaries for another language, click Apply, then select another language from the Language-dependent settings drop-down list. Otherwise, click OK to save your settings and close the Options dialog. memoQ is now ready to check spelling using Hunspell in the selected language.

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Using the Hunspell spell checker during translation

You can invoke the spell checker from the Translations menu, then choose Spelling… or press F7. In memoQ 2014 R2, click the Spell Check button on the Translation ribbon tab. When you invoke the spell checker, it reads through the segments of the active document. The Spell checking dialog con- sists of three tabs: Spelling, Options and Ignore lists. Further information to configure these tabs can be found in the memoQ Help, click here. Using the Hunspell spell checker enables you to perform spell checking on-the-fly: 1. When you translate in the target cell, and you make a typo, the misspelled words will be un- derlined as you type. Note: This feature is turned on by default. Uncheck this check box if you do not want to use it. 2. Right-click the word that is misspelled. A list with correction suggestions is displayed:

3. Select the correct word. memoQ will correct the word in the target segment accordingly. 4. There other options you can choose from in the suggestions list:

 (Add) which adds the word to the dictionary

 (Skip all) to skip all occurrences of this word. memoQ will then no longer underline the word as misspelled in this document.

 (Ignore Lists) to add this word to the ignore list. memoQ will then no longer underline the word as misspelled whenever this Ignore list is assigned to a project.

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