Spell Checker Annoyance?

[Nick Andriash]

Having had to re-install TB! due to a reformat, I am running into a
Spell Check annoyance that was not there previously. When I write
messages, I enable auto-correct and Spell Checker works as it did
before... It's when I spell check a document that I download from
another location that the problem appears.

What happens is that after correcting a mistake, or adding a word to my
User Dictionary, the Spell Checker brings the cursor back to the
beginning of the document, instead of allowing me to continue from the
point of last correction. It gets annoying when you are looking at
correcting a multi-page document.

Is this something that is inherent in the Spell Checker, or can I set an
option somewhere to correct this behaviour?


Nick

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Re: Spell Checker Annoyance?

[Ming-Li]

Hi Nick,

> It's when I spell check a document that I download from another
> location that the problem appears.

How do you spell check in TB a document downloaded from another
location? You copy-paste it into a message editing window, or...?

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Re: Spell Checker Annoyance?

[Nick Andriash]

On Saturday, July 29, 2000, at 5:12:01 AM, Ming-Li Wrote:

ML> How do you spell check in TB a document downloaded from another
ML> location? You copy-paste it into a message editing window, or...?

Exactly! I have a couple of rather large documents that I originally
created in TB!, and saved them as text documents for other uses. I am
always updating those documents, so I usually keep a copy of those
documents for editing within TB! but with my recent reformat, I had
taken them out and then reloaded them back once I had TB! up and running
again.

With the new installation, I lost my old User Dictionary, so when I
brought back the documents, TB! immediately found numerous errors. It
was in correcting those errors (more like adding those words back into
my new User Dictionary) that I noticed TB!'s Spell Checker would return
to the very first word in the document after each correction.


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Re: Spell Checker Annoyance?

[dMb]

Nick wrote:

> Having had to re-install TB! due to a reformat, I am running into a
> Spell Check annoyance that was not there previously. When I write
> messages, I enable auto-correct and Spell Checker works as it did
> before...

This reminds me of a question that I've been meaning to ask for a
while:

Just how does the Auto Correction Feature work.

It's my understanding that if I type the word "teh", it should
automatically correct it to "the" if it appears in the dictionary.

However, it doesn't.  And yes, the option is selected.

What am I missing here?

Thanks.

Derek
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Re: Spell Checker Annoyance?

[Januk Aggarwal]

Hello dMb,


On  Saturday, July 29, 2000  at  20:57:16 GMT -0400 (which was 5:57 PM
where I live) [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed:


> Just how does the Auto Correction Feature work.

> It's my understanding that if I type the word "teh", it should
> automatically correct it to "the" if it appears in the dictionary.

 If you notice, some misspelled words are underlined with triangular
waves, and others with square waves.  If you double right click on the
square wave words, then they change.  This is a plus and a minus.  It
is a plus when you intentionally want to misspell a word, like in your
example above.  It has the obvious disadvantage that it is not
intuitive. This is especially true if one is used to MS Word's
implementation of "autocorrection."


 


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Re: Spell Checker Annoyance?

[Curtis]

On Sat, 29 Jul 2000 20:57:16 -0400, dMb wrote:

d> Just how does the Auto Correction Feature work.

d> It's my understanding that if I type the word "teh", it should
d> automatically correct it to "the" if it appears in the dictionary.

Nope. It will indicate that the word is spelt incorrectly as you
type, indicating this through a squiggly line under the word involved.
If you type obvious typos, then the appearance of the squiggly line is
different and in that instance double right-clicking on the word will
lead to an auto-correction. The change in appearance will appear with
mistypes as 'recieve' or 'teh' or 'yuo'. Double right click and the
correction will be made without your having to select from a drop down
list.

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Re: Spell Checker Annoyance?

[dMb]

Januk wrote:


>> It's my understanding that if I type the word "teh", it should
>> automatically correct it to "the" if it appears in the dictionary.

>  If you notice, some misspelled words are underlined with triangular
> waves, and others with square waves.

I do now.  :)

> If you double right click on the square wave words, then they change.

So they do.  Interesting.

> This is a plus and a minus.  It
> is a plus when you intentionally want to misspell a word, like in your
> example above.  It has the obvious disadvantage that it is not
> intuitive. This is especially true if one is used to MS Word's
> implementation of "autocorrection."

Agreed.  So what are all the options on the right for when adding a
word to the dictionary.  I see that I can autocorrect words that don't
appear in there.  Are those words for "special" auto correcting
features?

I've experimented with them a little but I still don't fully
understand the logic.

Thanks.

Derek

 





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Re[2]: Spell Checker Annoyance?

[Assad Toorab]

Hello,

Is it possible to change the colour of the underline misspelled words?
See,  the  background  colour  of  my  editor  is  black  and  the red
underlining colour does not stand out.


JA>  If you notice, some misspelled words are underlined with triangular
JA> waves, and others with square waves.  If you double right click on the
JA> square wave words, then they change.  This is a plus and a minus.  It
JA> is a plus when you intentionally want to misspell a word, like in your
JA> example above.  It has the obvious disadvantage that it is not
JA> intuitive. This is especially true if one is used to MS Word's
JA> implementation of "autocorrection."

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