; DECSpell V1.5 Installation for OpenVMS Alpha Getting Started K DECspell checks spelling and capitalization in documents created on the / computer, and helps you correct any errors. To Start F Type SPELL followed by the name of the document you wish to check. For example: $ SPELL NAME.TXT H If you do not have a personal dictionary, DECspell asks if you would like one created. I DECspell checks each word in the document and displays the text, with ( unrecognized words marked as errors. J Where possible DECspell provides a list of corrections for each error.H You can select one of these corrections to automatically replace the
error. Using The Corrections List K When a corrections list is available for the first unrecognized word on H the screen, it appears just below your text. The menu option GLOBALG REPLACE is selected for you and the first correction in the list is highlighted. 0 To replace the word throughout the document: I Highlight the required correction using the left and right arrow keys and press RETURN. 0 To replace this occurrence only of the word: D Type R, to highlight the menu option REPLACE, then highlight the> required correction using the arrow keys and press RETURN. # To display further corrections: ( If [More...] is displayed) Type M or A Move the highlighting to [More...] using the right arrow key. J If [no more] is displayed DECspell has no further possible corrections for the unrecognized word. , To select one of the other menu options: B Type the first letter of the required option and press RETURN. The DECspell Command Menu Selecting a Menu Option J Type the initial letter of the option or highlight the required option6 using the left and right arrow keys. Press RETURN. GLOBAL REPLACE C Lets you replace the unrecognized word throughout the document. REPLACE H Lets you replace this occurrence only of the unrecognized word. (See( Using the Corrections List, section) EDIT B If a corrections list is not available the menu option EDIT isH highlighted. EDIT lets you edit the line containing the unrecognized( word(s). (See Using the EDIT Option) IGNORE J Leaves the unrecognized word, and all further occurrences of it in theI document, unchanged. Thus further occurrences will not be highlighted as errors. ADD A Adds the word highlighted as an error to the current personal H dictionary. The name of the current personal dictionary is displayedK below the menu. To add to an alternative dictionary, use the DICTIONARY option. PASS C Leaves this occurrence only of the unrecognized word unchanged.
DICTIONARY B Displays the names of the personal dictionaries being used andI highlights the name of the dictionary to which words are being added. 9 Allows you to change the current personal dictionary. FINISH G Leaves DECspell before the whole document has been checked. If you I have made any changes, you will be offered the choice of saving them. OVERVIEW ( Displays information about DECspell. Getting Help G Help is information about DECspell that you can read on the screen. The HELP key E The HELP key is either the PF2 key or the HELP key marked on your
keyboard. # To get help on any menu option: G Type the initial letter of the option on which you require help (or A move the highlighting to that option) and press the HELP key. G To get help while editing, using the corrections list, or using the DICTIONARY option: Press the HELP key. The Edit Option Using The EDIT Option G When you select EDIT from the DECspell Command Menu the cursor will 9 move to the first character of the unrecognized word. H DECspell uses a word processor style (WPS) keypad layout. Or you canK choose to use an EDT style layout using the /KEYPAD qualifier. (See the Qualifiers section) > To see the keypad layout press the HELP key while editing. B Press RETURN to leave the editor. DECspell rechecks the line. & The following functions are available: --> (right arrow key) 0 Moves the cursor one character to the right. <-- (left arrow key) / Moves the cursor one character to the left. DELETE 4 Deletes the character to the left of the cursor. RUB WORD OUT (LINE FEED) / Deletes the word to the left of the cursor. ADVANCE I Sets the direction for WORD and CHAR. In the WPS keypad it moves the & cursor one character to the right. BACKUP H Sets the direction for WORD and CHAR. In the WPS keypad it moves the% cursor one character to the left. 8 WORD Moves the cursor one word in the set direction. CHAR (EDT keypad) 8 Moves the cursor one character in the set direction. DEL CHAR 1 Deletes the character at the cursor position.
UNDEL CHAR ( Recovers the last character deleted. DEL WORD 0 Deletes the word to the right of the cursor.
UNDEL WORD # Recovers the last word deleted. UPPERCASE (WPS keypad) J Capitalizes the character at the cursor position. Capitalizes the word' if WORD is pressed after UPPERCASE. LOWERCASE (WPS keypad) G Puts the character at the cursor position into lowercase. Puts the ; word into lowercase if WORD is pressed after LOWERCASE. CHNGCASE (EDT keypad) = Changes the case of the character at the cursor position. SWAP H Swaps the character at the cursor position with the character to the right of it. CTRL W Repaints the screen. HELP K Displays a diagram of the keypad and describes the functions available. RETURN or ENTER Leaves EDIT. Dictionaries I DECspell checks whether words are spelled correctly by comparing them I with words in a master dictionary and words in personal dictionaries. F The master dictionary is based upon American Heritage DictionariesJ published by Houghton Mifflin. There are two versions of it: AmericanI English and British English. (Both may be available in the system you / are using: check with your system manager.) Personal Dictionaries I The documents you check may contain specialized words that are not in I DECspell's master dictionary; for example, names of people, jargon or # words specific to a profession. G You can create personal dictionaries to contain such words, and use K them for checking. This will prevent these words being found as errors. To Create Personal Dictionaries I The first time you use DECspell, you are asked whether you would like G to create a personal dictionary. Type Y if you would like one. This G dictionary is called your DEFAULT personal dictionary. It is stored < under the name PERSONAL.LGP in your top level directory. K Use your editor to create other personal dictionaries in your top level % directory with the file type .LGP ! For example: $ EDIT STAFF.LGP H When adding to them with your editor, you can put more than one wordE per line; separate the words with spaces. The words can be in any
order. ( Using Personal Dictionaries for Checking H Your default personal dictionary is always used for checking, unlessH you use the /NOPERSONAL_DICTIONARY qualifier when starting DECspell. G To use other personal dictionaries for checking use the /DICTIONARY 2 qualifier when starting DECspell. For example: * $ SPELL/DICTIONARY=STAFF.LGP NAME.TXT J You can use up to ten personal dictionaries including those created byH other DECspell users. Enclose a list within brackets () and separate& each dictionary name with a comma. & Adding Words While Checking a Document G When you use the ADD option on the DECspell Command Menu, words are K added to the current personal dictionary. Unless you specify otherwise, 2 this will be your default personal dictionary. H Use the DICTIONARY option on the DECspell Command Menu to select anyJ other dictionary that you specified with the /DICTIONARY qualifier, to' be the current personal dictionary. K When you select DICTIONARY the dictionaries being used for checking are @ displayed, with the current personal dictionary highlighted. I To change to a new current personal dictionary, move the highlighting D to the required dictionary with the arrow keys and press RETURN. G NOTE: If you use the /NOPERSONAL_DICTIONARY qualifier when starting H DECspell, the current personal dictionary is the first one specified# with the /DICTIONARY qualifier. & To Add Words While Checking a Document G When you use the ADD option on the DECspell Command Menu, words are J added to the current personal dictionary. Unless you changed it on theA Dictionary Selection Form, this will be your default personal dictionary. J To add to an alternative dictionary while checking a document, use theH DICTIONARY option on the DECspell Command Menu to change the current personal dictionary. : You can only add to one personal dictionary at a time. The Dictionary Formatter J The DECspell dictionary formatter organizes your personal dictionaries in the following ways: / o sorts the entries into alphanumeric order o removes duplicate entries C Enter SPELL/FORMAT, followed by the name of the dictionary. For example: $ SPELL/FORMAT DICNAME.LGP D Note that if you combine /FORMAT with other qualifiers, you must specify /FORMAT first. J Words are arranged in columns across the page. Each new initial letterK begins a new paragraph. If you want each word to be positioned on a new 3 line, use the /NOPACKED qualifier. For example: ( $ SPELL/FORMAT/NOPACKED DICNAME.LGP J If you want to see a list of duplicate words that are removed, use the /LOG qualifier. For example: # $ SPELL/FORMAT/LOG DICNAME.LGP How DECspell Defines a Word G DECspell considers any set of alphanumeric characters, separated by J spaces, punctuation marks or line boundaries, to be a word. Words mayJ also contain certain other special characters, such as hyphen, period,, apostrophe, ampersand (&) or dollar ($). C However, if the document is in RUNOFF format, DECspell does not ) consider RUNOFF commands to be words. D Words are verified only if they contain an alphabetic character. Hyphenation L If a word contains a hyphen, DECspell will check each part of the word. I If either part is not in the dictionary, the word will be highlighted as an error. Capitalization E If you add a word to your personal dictionary that has an initial B capital, for example David, the same word in lowercase will be highlighted as an error. G If you add a word all in uppercase, for example JANE, the same word K with only an initial capital or all in lowercase will be highlighted as
an error. K However, if you add a word that is all in lowercase, for example jones, J the same word with an initial capital or all in uppercase is passed as correct. DCL Command Qualifiers H Qualifiers alter the way DECspell works. You use them when startingJ DECspell. You can abbreviate any qualifier and use more than one at a time. /OUTPUT J Gives the corrected document a new name. If this qualifier is not usedH the corrected document will be stored under its original name with a' higher version number. For example: ( $ SPELL/OUTPUT=NEWNAME.TXT NAME.TXT /NOPERSONAL_DICTIONARY K Prevents your default personal dictionary (PERSONAL.LGP) being used for checking. For example: $ SPELL/NOPERS NAME.TXT /PERSONAL_DICTIONARY I Specifies a different current personal dictionary to that used during G the previous spelling check (that is, the dictionary to which words E will be added when you use the ADD option on the DECspell Command Menu). For example: $ SPELL/PERS=DICT1 NAME.TXT /DICTIONARY I Specifies personal dictionaries for checking, other than your default % personal dictionary. For example: ( $ SPELL/DICT=(DICT1,DICT2) NAME.TXT /KEYPAD D Specifies an alternative editor layout to the default WPS keypad4 layout. You can specify WPS or EDT. For example: $ SPELL/KEYPAD=EDT NAME.TXT /MASTER_DICTIONARY E Specifies an alternative master dictionary to your default master F dictionary. You can choose either AMERICAN or BRITISH. The defaultK depends on your installation. (NOTE: You can only use this qualifier if A the system you are using has both dictionaries.) For example: " $ SPELL/MAST=BRITISH NAME.TXT /RUNOFF D Indicates that the document is a RUNOFF document, if it does notE already have a .RN% file type. DECspell then by-passes the RUNOFF 5 commands when checking the document. For example: $ SPELL/RUNOFF NAME.TXT
Helpful Hints C o You are encouraged to add words to your personal dictionaries K whenever you check a document. When you first use DECspell many of your G specialized words will be highlighted as errors and so it will take C longer to check documents. As you add specialized words to your D personal dictionaries fewer words will be highlighted as errors. I o DECspell compiles corrections lists from the master dictionary, any D personal dictionaries being used and any words you IGNORE in the session. A o Remember that GLOBAL REPLACE replaces the unrecognized word I throughout the document. However, if you finish using DECspell before I you have checked the whole document, GLOBAL REPLACE replaces the word , only as far as the document has reached. A o Be careful not to add real spelling errors to your personal E dictionaries. (NOTE: You can edit the dictionary to remove them.) H o Remember that if you finish using DECspell before you have checkedD the whole document, words you selected to PASS or IGNORE will be@ highlighted as errors when you return to check the document. H o You cannot use the DICTIONARY option unless you have chosen to use* more than one dictionary for checking. J o Remember you cannot go back through a document while using DECspell. J The information presented here is subject to change without notice and@ should not be construed as a commitment by Digital EquipmentI Corporation. Digital Equipment Corporation assumes no responsibility 4 for any errors that may appear in this document. E DECspell, (c) copyright Digital Equipment Corporation 1983, 1996. F Houghton Mifflin Spelling Verification - Correction, (c) CopyrightF 1983, 1981 Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights strictly reserved. I The spelling correction software contains unpublished materials owned C by Houghton Mifflin Company, licensed for use solely in Digital K software. Reproductions or disassembly of embodied computer programs or E algorithms prohibited. Based on The American Heritage Dictionary.