Re: That Spell Checker
Hi On Wednesday 8 January 2014 at 5:20:16 AM, in mid:1545982258.20140107232...@jimkyle.com, Jim Kyle wrote: I've now installed the 4.0 international pack, and have both British and American checked on the Languages dialog -- but still no American English dictionary shows up. Apparently having British checked overrides it. Any suggestion for being able to add words to the American English dictionary? Here, in TB! Pro 4.0.38 with just British English ticked, I can add or delete words in dictionaries for about 17 languages. (Well, I tried about three languages including American English; I wasn't about to try all of them.) If you can't see the American dictionary in the menu, I guess it didn't install. Maybe you can select which languages to install when running the International Pack installer? Can you add words to any language's dictionary other than British English? -- Best regards MFPAmailto:expires2...@ymail.com If you are afraid to speak against tyranny, then you are already a slave. Using The Bat! v4.0.38 on Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 3 Current version is 6.1.8 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: That Spell Checker
Hi On Wednesday 8 January 2014 at 4:41:12 AM, in mid:693229763.20140107224...@jimkyle.com, Jim Kyle wrote: Correct! I've now downloaded both those. Do I just run the installer Since my TB is 4.2.36, I presume I should install the 4.0 version rather than 4.2.28. Right? My guess would be it doesn't matter too much, unless something relevant to this function changed between those version numbers. There would be some logic in picking the number closest to your TB! version, as there were less releases in between where things may have been changed. Or try both... -- Best regards MFPAmailto:expires2...@ymail.com Always be on the lookout for conspicuousness Using The Bat! v4.0.38 on Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 3 Current version is 6.1.8 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: That Spell Checker
Wednesday, January 8, 2014, 5:06:11 PM, you wrote: My guess would be it doesn't matter too much, unless something relevant to this function changed between those version numbers. There would be some logic in picking the number closest to your TB! version, as there were less releases in between where things may have been changed. Or try both.. Thanks for the help! I did some more searching on the drive that holds TB; it's not the system drive itself but another, larger one. I found a couple of copies of the whole TB directory, stemming from long-ago disasters, and one of them held three *.TLX files. One of them was the AM version; the others are named ACCENT.TLX and CORRECT.TLX. Apparently the last time I installed TB, some 5 or 6 years ago, I somehow failed to get the spell checker fully functional although enough of it did get in to provide me the squiggly red line beneath unrecognized words. I copied all three over to the active directory where the international pack had put all the others, re-started TB, and everything now seems to work properly or at least as I would expect. I can add words, both as words to be accepted and as words to be corrected, and they persist from day to day. The only question I have left involves the format of TLX files; I'd like to find a help file or article that exposes their details. They appear to be plain text, one word to a line, and entries in the WinXP registry tell TB which of them to use -- but they have a few mysteries, and I always want to know what goes on behind the curtain (as in Undocumented DOS, a book I co-authored some 23 years ago). I'm also curious about the ACCENT.TLX file and why it's different from the language-specific ones... -- Best regards, Jimmailto:j...@jimkyle.com Using The Bat! v4.2.36.4 on Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 3 on VirtualBox 4.2.18 under Xubuntu 12.04.3 with AntiSpamSniper Version 3.2.4.5 Current version is 6.1.8 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
