JSPELL 2.11

JSPELL 2.11 (Release date: Oct.21, 1998)

Copyright 1993-1998 by Joohee Jeong

Email: jhjeong@bigfoot.com

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Please read 00readme.txt for some important information.

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Table of Contents

Chapter I. Introduction

1 Features of JSPELL

2 Installation

3 Test drive

4 Configuration and hardware compatibility

5 Terminologies

Chapter II. User's guide for JSPELL

1 Characters, words and dictionaries

1.1 Legal characters and legitimate words

1.2 Base dictionary and user dictionary

1.3 Dictionary loading

2 TeX-mode

2.1 Selecting the TeX-mode

2.2 Legitimate subwords in TeX

2.3 Ignoring the TeX commands

2.4 Math ignore mode

2.5 Miscellanies

3 Running JSPELL, the spell checker

3.1 Overview

3.2 Capitalization of words

3.3 Menu

3.4 [Replace] and [rePlace all]

3.5 Adding spotted word to user dictionaries

3.6 Miscellanies

4 Configuration files and command line options

5 Usage tips

Chapter III. User's guide for dictman

1 Introduction

2 Running dictman, the dictionary manager

2.1 [File] menus

2.2 [BaseDic] menus

2.3 [UserDic] menus

2.4 [Utilities] menus

2.5 [Help=F1] menus

3 Dictionary maintenance

3.1 Merging user dictionary to base dictionary

3.2 Deleting words from a base dictionary

3.3 Building up your own base dictionary

Appendix A. Networked mode

Appendix B. Frequently Asked Questions

Appendix C. History

Chapter I. Introduction ----------------------------------------

I.1. Features of JSPELL

(1) Ease of use:

Practically you don't need to study or practice anything to

use JSPELL proficiently. With JSPELL's on-line help and the

intuitive keystrokes, which are indicated by the highlighted

letters in the on-screen menu buttons, you will hardly need

to read the manual except for the advanced features of

JSPELL, which are not found in other spell checkers. For

mouse users, spell-checking with JSPELL can even be fun.

(2) Speed:

JSPELL is fast in dictionary loading, scanning input files

for misspelled words and finding suggestions for near

misspelled words. For a typical PC with 386 CPU, JSPELL

needs less than two seconds in loading a 40,000 word

dictionary and a fraction of a second in building and

displaying the list of suggested words for a misspelled word.

(3) Dictionary:

A unique feature of JSPELL is its ability to handle file

specific dictionary and multiple user dictionaries---you can

have a dictionary (or dictionaries) that are specific to the

input file. The author of JSPELL found this feature very

convenient, more than he initially imagined. The accompanying

dictionary manager dictman is powerful and easy to use.

Merging your personal dictionaries to the space/time-

efficient base dictionary and/or building your own base

dictionary from scratch is done effortlessly.

(4) TeX support:

Ignoring the TeX-commands (that start with the backslashes

`\') is just the beginning. Refer to (Section 2.2) of this

manual for the complete description of how JSPELL handles TeX

documents.

(5) Foreign characters:

Foreign characters can be handled in either

(i) extended ASCII characters, or

(ii) TeX commands (e.g., G\"odel, Erd\H{o}s).

(6) Undo:

Not all popular spell checkers support undoing the previous

actions---up to 400 steps! Moreover, JSPELL always displays

the last action at the bottom row of the screen for added

convenience.

(7) Network support:

Each user can have his/her own configuration and personal

dictionary while sharing the executables and the base

dictionary with other users.

(8) Ignoring specific lines:

You may configure to JSPELL to ignore (i.e., not to spell-check)

all lines starting with a specified string: for instance the ">".

This feature is useful in spell-checking replies to email messages.

(9) More...

There are countless features of JSPELL that will please you.

For instance, the [Find] menu item in the dictionary manager

can display all words in the dictionary that match the given

regular expression: e.g., the pattern "t???e" will give you

the list of all 5 letter words that start with `t' and end

with `e', such as "table", "taste", "tease", "tense" etc., in

just 3 to 5 seconds for a typical 386 machine. Imagine what

you can do with this in solving crossword puzzles!

I.2 Installation

Installation and configuration:

Prepare a "jspell directory", say C:\JSPELL, by the DOS command

mkdir C:\JSPELL

and copy all JSPELL files into this directory. Then C:\JSPELL

should contain the following 9 files

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filename description

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00readme.txt readme file

base.dic English word list

dictman.exe the dictionary manager executable

jspell.cfg configuration

jspell.exe the spell checker executable

jspell.hlp

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