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. |
▪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. |
▪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. |
▪Looking up terms in the Duden dictionaries
| Only included in SoftMaker Office Professional and NX Universal: With these versions of SoftMaker Office, TextMaker also contains the following Duden dictionaries for reference: "Das deutsche Universalwörterbuch" (The German Universal Dictionary) and "Das große Fremdwörterbuch" (The Large Foreign Dictionary). |
▪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. |
▪SmartText
| You can use SmartText to automatically correct your "favorite typos" and define abbreviations for frequently used phrases – for example, "br" for "Best regards". |