TextMaker has always differentiated itself with its powerful language tools (spell check, thesaurus, etc.). This chapter provides a comprehensive introduction to all available language tools. It consists of the following sections:
▪Setting the language
| The default language for spell check, hyphenation and thesaurus can be set via the ribbon command File | Options (Language tab). |
| You can also assign a different language to individual sections of text via the dialog box of the ribbon tab Home | group Character  – for example, if you want to use Spanish quotations in an English document. |
▪Spell check
| The spell check checks a document's text for typos and suggests corrections in the event of errors. |
▪Hyphenation
| Automatic hyphenation hyphenates long words at the end of lines. This is performed automatically as you type. |
▪Duden Korrektor
| Only included in SoftMaker Office Professional and NX Universal: With these versions of SoftMaker Office, TextMaker also contains the Duden Korrektor from Dudenverlag in addition to its existing language tools. |
| It has modules for spell check and hyphenation that can be used instead of the built-in modules. Furthermore, a module for checking grammar is available. |
▪Auto correction
| With Auto correction, you can have TextMaker automatically correct typical careless mistakes when entering text – for example, if you often type "yuo" instead of "you". In addition, you will find many other useful auto correct functions here. |
▪SmartText
| You can use SmartText to define abbreviations for frequently used phrases – for example, "BR" for "Best regards". |
▪Thesaurus
| The large thesaurus integrated into TextMaker shows you synonyms (words of the same or related meaning) for a word. Thesauri are also available for many foreign languages. |
▪Translation
| Only included in SoftMaker Office NX Universal: TextMaker can automatically translate text sections or even an entire document into another language for you. |
▪Research
| Only included in SoftMaker Office Professional and NX Universal: Look up terms on online research platforms (Wikipedia, Oxford dictionary, Cambridge dictionary, etc.) directly from the document. |
▪SmartChat
| Only included in SoftMaker Office NX Universal: Create AI-based texts in TextMaker. |
▪Read aloud
| Only included in SoftMaker Office Professional and NX Universal: Have the texts in your TextMaker document read aloud to you. |