Spell checking

You can enable spell checking in StoryTeller by selecting View > Spell checking.

With this enabled, Storyteller compares the words you enter with a dictionary based on the current language of the text. A word that is not included in the dictionary is underlined.

 

You can right-click an underlined word to open a context menu that includes a set of replacement suggestions for the mis-spelled word. You can also select to: Ignore all – Ignores this specific word until you close the document. Add to dictionary – Adds the word to a custom dictionary. To edit the custom dictionary, see

StoryTeller uses the Hunspell library for spell checking. The library requires a dictionary (.dic) file and an instruction (.aff) file for each language to spellcheck.

Note:

If you have enabled spell checking and the current language does not have a corresponding dictionary, you will get a notification about this in the Output panel when adding text. (View > Panels > Output).

A set of dictionaries is pre-installed by the setup, but you can add more as needed.

Note:

Some dictionaries may require that you obtain a license for it.

For example as in the following procedure:

To add a dictionary from openoffice.org

1	Download a dictionary from the following site:

http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/dictionaries

2	Unpack the zipped file. There should be a .dic and a .aff file.

3	Store the .dic and a .aff files in the following folder:

<StreamServe installation>\Services\StoryTeller\<version>\bin\dict

4	Browse to the following folder:

<StreamServe installation>\Services\StoryTeller\<version>\bin

5	Open the spellcheck.xml file.

6	Copy and paste one of the <language> entries.

7	Edit the new entry as follows:

–	The name must be a language code in the form of w3c language codes defined in RFC1766. Available language codes in StoryTeller are defined in the languages.xml file located in: <StreamServe installation>\Services\StoryTeller\<version>\bin

–	The .dic and .aff file names must correspond to your new files.

8	Make sure the encoding used for the dictionary i(e.g. ISO 8859-1) is listed among the <enocing hunspell> entries, including mapping to StreamServe encoding. The required encoding is usually specified in the .aff file.

Example 12

Entry for Faroese dictionary in spellcheck.xml

<language name="fo-FO" dict_file="dict/fo*_FO.dic" aff_file=
"dict/fo_FO.aff" />

 

Example 13

Entry for encoding

<encoding hunspell="ISO8859-1" strs="ISO 8859-1" />

 

To edit a custom dictionary

1	Open the Help > Environment Information dialog.

2	Locate the Spellchecker user dictionary value and browse to that folder.

3	Edit the file for the language used and whose name starts with user-. For example, user-en-UK.dic.

4	Restart StoryTeller.