Correct spelling automatically?
in [UK Mac]
|
From: Rowland McDonnell on 4 Jan 2010 08:58 I've just noticed that there's a `Correct spelling automatically' option available in Textedit.app>Edit>Spelling and Grammar (MacOS X 10.6.2). It's `on'. I can't find a useful mention of it in Textedit's help: ================================================================== To automatically correct spelling errors: • To correct spelling in the current document, choose Edit > "Spelling and Grammar" > Check Spelling While Typing, and then choose Edit > "Spelling and Grammar" > Correct Spelling Automatically. • To correct spelling in new documents, choose TextEdit > Preferences, click New Document, select "Check spelling as you type," and then select "Correct spelling automatically." TextEdit corrects misspelled words that don't begin with a capital letter and don't appear on a line of their own. ================================================================== Nothing like that happens. Anyone got a clue what I'm supposed to see? Rowland. P.S. No, I do not ever want a computer replacing what I've typed with what it thinks I should have typed[1]. I'm just curious as to why this really annoying mis-feature is both on by default and apparently non-functional. [1] I do not like my computer deciding that it knows what I meant better than I do; it's almost always wrong when it does that. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking
From: Peter Ashby on 5 Jan 2010 03:23 Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > > Nothing like that happens. Anyone got a clue what I'm supposed to see? > I had that problem with Firefox recently, after swapping from Safari, finally. I eventually figured out that it was because I had not installed a dictionary. I did so, along with dictionary switcher, and it now works. So could it be that TextEdit doesn't have, or is not pointed to a dictionary? Peter -- Add my middle initial to email me. It has become attached to a country www.the-brights.net
From: Rowland McDonnell on 6 Jan 2010 09:44 Peter Ashby <pashby(a)blueyonder.co.ruk> wrote: > Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > > > Nothing like that happens. Anyone got a clue what I'm supposed to see? > > > I had that problem with Firefox recently, after swapping from Safari, > finally. I eventually figured out that it was because I had not > installed a dictionary. I did so, along with dictionary switcher, and it > now works. > > So could it be that TextEdit doesn't have, or is not pointed to a > dictionary? I checked and it said `Automatically by language' but how the hell it can work out what language I want, I cannot possibly guess[1]. I selected one of the available British English dialects. Textedit - thankfully - still showed no sign of changing what it thinks is mis-spelled words automatically - but do you know what it is that I'm supposed to see when this option is active? It seems very strange that Apple would make Textedit correct mis-spellings automatically at all, and then to have it as the default setting - odd. So: this setting appears to be non-functional. There's nothing in Mac Help about it that I can see. Do you know what is supposed to happen with this option active? Rowland. [1] Leave a computer to select the spelling list for the particular dialect of English I use, and the spelling standards I prefer? There's no chance of it getting it right - none at all (I know what spelling standards I prefer - and for starters, I prefer `-ize' which most Yanks thinks is a US-specific thing; most US-sourced spelling checkers insist that Brits always use '-ise'. Not if they've got an Oxford dictionary, they don't... But that one's just for starters.) -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking
|
Pages: 1 Prev: wireless network - adding an ethernet port? Next: e-books pricing |