<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/" xmlns:its="http://www.w3.org/2005/11/its" xmlns:e="http://projectmallard.org/experimental/" xmlns:if="http://projectmallard.org/experimental/if/" type="topic" id="mail-composer-spellcheck"> <info> <desc>On spell checking your mail in the composer.</desc> <link type="guide" xref="index#mail-composing" /> <revision pkgversion="3.5.1" version="0.6" date="2012-04-25" status="final"/> <credit type="author"> <name its:translate="no">Andre Klapper</name> <email its:translate="no">ak-47@gmx.net</email> </credit> <include href="legal.xml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/> </info> <title>Spell checking</title> <!-- Instructions are only valid from Evolution 2.24 on --> <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 <sys>hunspell</sys> package for your specific language and the <sys>enchant</sys> package are installed via the software management tool of your distribution.</p> <note style="info package"> <p>You might need to install <sys>hunspell</sys> and/or <sys>enchant</sys> to perform these steps.</p> <if:choose xmlns:if="http://projectmallard.org/if/1.0/"> <if:when test="action:install"> <p><link action="install:hunspell" href="http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/" style="button">Install hunspell</link></p> <p><link action="install:enchant" href="http://www.abisource.com/projects/enchant/" style="button">Install enchant</link></p> </if:when> </if:choose> </note> </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> </page>