About the Spell Checker
The built-in spell checker is a fast, dictionary-based spell checker. It supports letter insertion, letter deletion, letter transposition, letter substitution, and phonetic substitution. It can also split run-together words. It can remember words that have been skipped in the current spell-check session, so it won't flag them as incorrect again, and it supports an interface for learning words.It is also smart about locales. Locale-specific spellings (color versus colour) are provided by locale-specific dictionaries, so these spellings are allowed only in the proper locale.
Currently, the spell checker supports English only.
The spell checker has no built-in user interface. It exists as a set of global function calls. The Newton Works word processor implements a user interface for it, but you must create your own user interface if you want to add the spell checker capabilities to your own application.
If you need to test for the existence of the spell checker in the system (for an application that runs on all 2.x systems), you can use the following test:
if GlobalFnExists('SpellDocBegin) then ...
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