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Customisations
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.. _Enchant: https://abiword.github.io/enchant
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.. _Free Desktop: https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/dictionaries/tree/
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There are a few ways you can customise novelWriter youself. Currently, you can add new GUI themes,
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your own syntax themes, and install additional dictionaries.
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Spell Check Dictionaries
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========================
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novelWriter uses `Enchant <https://abiword.github.io/enchant/>`_ as the spell checking tool.
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Depending on you operating system, it may or may not load installed spell check dictionaries.
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novelWriter uses Enchant_ as the spell checking tool. Depending on you operating system, it may or
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may not load installed spell check dictionaries.
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Linux
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On Linux, you generally only have to install hunspell or aspell dictionaries on your system like
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you do for other applications. See your distro's documentation for how to do this.
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you do for other applications. See your distro's documentation for how to do this. These
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dictionaries should then show up as available spell check languages in novelWriter.
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Windows
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For Windows, English is included with the installation. For other languages you have to download
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and add dictionaries yourself. You can find the various dictionaries on the
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`Free Desktop <https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/dictionaries/tree/>`_ website. You should
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find a folder for your language, if it is available at all, and download the files ending with
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``.aff`` and ``.dic``. These files must then be copied to the following location:
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and add dictionaries yourself. You can find the various dictionaries on the `Free Desktop`_
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website. You should find a folder for your language, if it is available at all, and download the
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files ending with ``.aff`` and ``.dic``. These files must then be copied to the following
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location:
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``C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\enchant\hunspell``
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`novelwriter/assets/themes <https://github.com/vkbo/novelWriter/tree/main/novelwriter/assets/themes>`_.
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Remember to also change the name of your theme by modifying the ``name`` setting at the top of the
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file.
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file, otherwise you may not be able to distinguish them in :guilabel:`Preferences`.
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For novelWriter to be able to locate the custom theme files, you must copy them to the
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:ref:`a_locations_data` location in your home or user area. There should be a folder there named
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``syntax`` for syntax themes and just ``themes`` for GUI themes.
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``syntax`` for syntax themes and just ``themes`` for GUI themes. These folders are created the
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first time you start novelWriter.
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Once the files are copied there, they should show up in :guilabel:`Preferences` with the label you
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set as ``name`` inside the file.
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