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  <info>
    <desc>On spell checking your mail in the composer.</desc>
    
    <link type="guide" xref="index#mail-composing" />

    <revision pkgversion="3.0.2" version="0.3" date="2011-07-29" status="final"/>
    <credit type="author">
      <name>Andre Klapper</name>
      <email>ak-47@gmx.net</email>
    </credit>
    <license>
      <p>Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0</p>
    </license>

  </info>

<title>Spell checking</title>

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<section id="required-packages">
<title>Prerequirements</title>
<p>To use spell checking for the emails that you write you first need to make sure that the <em>hunspell</em> package for your specific language and the <em>enchant</em> package are installed via the software management tool of your distribution.</p>
<p><link action="install:hunspell" href="http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/">Install hunspell now.</link></p>
<p><link action="install:enchant" href="http://www.abisource.com/projects/enchant/">Install enchant now.</link></p>
</section>

<section id="global-preferences">
<title>Global Preferences</title>

<p>Under <guiseq><gui>Edit</gui><gui>Preferences</gui><gui>Composer Preferences</gui><gui>Spell Checking</gui><gui>Options</gui></guiseq> you can define whether your spelling is checked while you type and which color is used for underlining words that are misspelled.</p>

<p>You can also define which installed languages are used for spell checking in the list available under <guiseq><gui>Edit</gui><gui>Preferences</gui><gui>Composer Preferences</gui><gui>Spell Checking</gui><gui>Languages</gui></guiseq>.</p>
</section>

<section id="composer">
<title>Manual spell checking in the composer</title>
<p>If you do not have <gui>Checking spelling while I type</gui> enabled in the <link xref="#global-preferences">Composer Preferences</link> you can run a spell check in the email composer by clicking <guiseq><gui>Edit</gui><gui>Spell Checking</gui></guiseq> or by pressing <key>F7</key>.</p>
</section>

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