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Customizing AutoCorrect Dictionary

includes an AutoCorrect feature to automatically correct misspelled words as you type. There is a default list of commonly misspelled words and symbols for each supported language, but you can modify the list to suit your needs.

Customizing the AutoCorrect Terms List Using Oxygen XML Editor/Author

To customize the term list used by the AutoCorrect feature, follow these steps:
  5. Copy or move that patch file to the options/autocorrect folder that is located inside your Oxygen Data Directory (oxygen.data.dir/options/autocorrect).

Alternate Method (Without Using Oxygen XML Editor/Author)

  1. Create a patch file called en_patch.xml with content like this:
    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<replacements>
    <deletion match="i" substitution="I"/>
    <addition match="OXWA" substitution="Oxygen XML Web Author"/>
</replacements>
  2. Save it in the options/autocorrect folder that is located inside your Oxygen Data Directory (oxygen.data.dir/options/autocorrect).

Text-to-Markup AutoCorrrect Conversions

Some built-in frameworks include a configuration file that defines shortcut patterns that can be used to automatically insert a certain XML structure. More specifically, the XML structure (fragment) automatically replaces a specific prefix pattern. For example, if you are editing a DITA document using the built-in DITA framework, entering a hyphen (-) followed by a space at the beginning of a paragraph would automatically replace them with an unordered list element (<ul>) with a child list item element (<li>). This is made possible by the AutoCorrect mechanism.

It is possible to customize the particular configuration file (structureAutocorrect.xml) to define your own markup insertion shortcut patterns for your (document type). For more information, see Customizing Text-to-Markup Automatic Conversions.