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+++ b/runtime/doc/spell.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-*spell.txt* For Vim version 7.0aa. Last change: 2005 Jul 02
+*spell.txt* For Vim version 7.0aa. Last change: 2005 Jul 03
VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ This switches on the 'spell' option and specifies to check for US English.
The words that are not recognized are highlighted with one of these:
SpellBad word not recognized |hl-SpellBad|
- SpellCap word not capatilized |hl-SpellCap|
+ SpellCap word not capitalised |hl-SpellCap|
SpellRare rare word |hl-SpellRare|
SpellLocal wrong spelling for selected region |hl-SpellLocal|
@@ -321,6 +321,10 @@ find them here:
You can also use a plain word list. The results are the same, the choice
depends on what word lists you can find.
+If you install Aap (from www.a-a-p.org) you can use the recipes in the
+runtime/spell/??/ directories. Aap will take care of downloading the files,
+apply patches needed for Vim and build the .spl file.
+
Make sure your current locale is set properly, otherwise Vim doesn't know what
characters are upper/lower case letters. If the locale isn't available (e.g.,
when using an MS-Windows codepage on Unix) add tables to the .aff file
@@ -389,7 +393,7 @@ following procedure is recommended:
4. Start Vim with the right locale and use |:mkspell| to generate the Vim
spell file.
5. Try out the spell file with ":set spell spelllang=xx" if you wrote it in
- a spell directory in 'runtimepath, or ":set spelllang=xx.enc.spl" if you
+ a spell directory in 'runtimepath', or ":set spelllang=xx.enc.spl" if you
wrote it somewhere else.
When the Myspell files are updated you can merge the differences:
@@ -436,7 +440,7 @@ highlighted. Person and company names will not appear in a dictionary, but do
appear in a word list. And some old words are rarely used while they are
common misspellings. These do appear in a dictionary but not in a word list.
-There are two formats: A straigth list of words and a list using affix
+There are two formats: A straight list of words and a list using affix
compression. The files with affix compression are used by Myspell (Mozilla
and OpenOffice.org). This requires two files, one with .aff and one with .dic
extension.
@@ -760,7 +764,7 @@ Simplistic example:
SAL C K ~
SAL K K ~
-There are a few rules and this can become quite complicated. An explantion
+There are a few rules and this can become quite complicated. An explanation
how it works can be found in the Aspell manual:
http://aspell.net/man-html/Phonetic-Code.html.
@@ -780,7 +784,7 @@ characters to another character, mapping similar sounding characters to the
same character. At the same time this does case folding. You can not have
both SAL items and simple soundfolding.
-There are two items required: one to speficy the characters that are mapped
+There are two items required: one to specify the characters that are mapped
and one that specifies the characters they are mapped to. They must have
exactly the same number of characters. Example: