Understand how to edit dictionary files in Adobe FrameMaker.
You have editorial control over your document, personal, and site dictionaries. You can choose different dictionaries, merge one dictionary into another, and edit and delete dictionaries.
If you’re editing a personal or document dictionary, use FrameMaker to write the dictionary contents to a file.
Edit the file. If you use FrameMaker to edit a dictionary, be sure to do the following:
When you open the file, select Treat Each Line As A Paragraph in the Reading Text File dialog and click Read.
When you save the file, choose Text Only format and click Save. Then click Only Between Paragraphs and click Save.
Merge the dictionary file with another dictionary. If you removed words from the dictionary, delete the original dictionary before merging the file. Otherwise, the deleted words remain in the dictionary.
If your document contains many correctly spelled words that FrameMaker questions, expedite spell-checking by adding the words to a dictionary in a separate operation before you begin to spell-check.
Make the appropriate document window or book window active.
Choose .
Click Dictionaries.
Click Write All Unknown Words To File and click OK.
Specify a filename for the dictionary file, and click OK or Save. The resulting dictionary file doesn’t include typing errors such as repeated words, capitalization errors, or extra spaces.
Edit the dictionary file with a text editor or with FrameMaker. Delete any words you do not want to add to your dictionary, such as misspelled words.
In the Spelling Checker dialog box, click Dictionaries.
Choose Merge From File from the Personal Dictionary or Document Dictionary drop-down list, and click OK. If you expect the words to appear in several documents, merge the words with a personal dictionary, or merge them into all the files in a book.
Name and save the dictionary file.
A document sometimes contains hyphenated compound words. By default, FrameMaker spell-checks each word in a hyphenated compound word rather than checking the hyphenated compound word as a whole. For example, when spell-checking the word heavy-duty, FrameMaker checks heavy and then checks duty. By changing the default settings, you can spell-check hyphenated compound words as single words, and you can add hyphenated compound words to your personal dictionary.
Choose and click Options.
Select Unusual Hyphenation and click Set.
In the Word box in the Spelling Checker dialog box, enter the hyphenated compound word you want to add to your personal dictionary. Include a hyphen at the beginning of the compound word, and type a backslash (\) before each hyphen that connects words.
For example, to add the word heavy-duty, type ‑heavy\-duty.
Click Learn.