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rombanks
Inspiring
October 28, 2013
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Framemaker 10 site dictionary

  • October 28, 2013
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Hello fellows,

Question:

Let's say I updated my site dictionary (located on Win7 under C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\AdobeFrameMaker10\dict) with a list of terms that are allowed in my documents (e.g., auto-negotiation (correct) vs. auto negotiation (incorrect and should be picked up by the spell checker)).

It's not clear to me how to make the spell checker identify incorrectly spelled terms based on the entries that appear in the site dictionary. Just adding the correct entries to the dictionary line by line does not change anything.

Thank you for your input in advance!

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Arnis Gubins
Inspiring
October 28, 2013

If you already have spell-checked the document, then FM marks all of the paragraphs as being checked. It will skip over those when re-running the spell-checker (unless they've been modified). If you added/updated the site dictionary after a spell-check. It won't take re-check those paragraphs.

You have to enable the "Mark All PAragraphs for Rechecking" option in the Dictionaries panel of the Spell-checker. This will then allow you to recheck the content using the updated site dicttionary.

I'm also assuming that you've correctly specified the path to the site dictionary in your maker.ini settings. More details on FM's dictionaries are found in the following blog:

http://blogs.adobe.com/techcomm/2009/12/dictionaries_in_fm9.html

rombanks
rombanksAuthor
Inspiring
October 29, 2013

Hi Arnis,

Thanks for your response! Yes, I saw that article on the Adobe blog, but it did not answer the question of whether (and how) the site dict. can cause the FM spell checker identify "auto negotiation" as an incorrectly spelled compound word and suggest the correct spelling ('auto-negotiation').

Inspiring
October 29, 2013

I don't believe that FrameMaker's spelling checker will see "auto

negotiation" as anything but two words and check them separately. The

free SDL Author Assistant add-on might be able to do that, though:

http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=4959