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Conversion to new German spelling<br />

Note: This whole section applies to text in German language. If you never work<br />

with documents composed in German, you may want to skip it and continue<br />

reading in section “Editing user dictionaries”, beginning on page 309.<br />

In 1996, the governments of the German-speaking countries Germany, Austria,<br />

Liechtenstein, and Switzerland signed an agreement concerning a reform of German<br />

spelling, attempting to simplify German orthography and make it easier to<br />

learn.<br />

TextMaker’s Background spell checking feature (discussed in the last section) can<br />

help you apply the reformed spellings for text composed in German language:<br />

At your command, it underlines in blue all German words that conform to the old<br />

German spellings and that should be spelled differently in accordance with the new<br />

German spellings.<br />

If you click with the right mouse button on such a word, the approved spelling is<br />

presented to you in a context menu. In addition, you can call up information as to<br />

why this word is now written differently.<br />

For detailed information on this topic, read the following pages.<br />

Activating conversion to the new German spelling<br />

To activate checking for and conversion to the new spellings in texts composed in<br />

German, you must take the following steps:<br />

1. Invoke the command Tools > Options.<br />

2. Switch to the Language property sheet.<br />

3. Turn on the Use background spell checking option.<br />

4. Additionally, activate the Underline old German spelling in blue option.<br />

5. Confirm with OK.<br />

Note: The Underline old German spelling in blue option works only with text<br />

formatted in the language “German (Germany)” or “German (Switzerland)”.<br />

From now on, in the background, TextMaker examines the document for German<br />

words that should be written differently following the German spelling reform.<br />

Manual TextMaker Language tools 307

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