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From: Duncan Kennedy on 10 May 2010 10:12
The subject says it all. I've always been a fast and very bad typist
and it's also taking time to get used to my new mac keyboard.

Is there a way / application to link a spell checker to MacSOUP, please?

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From: John Hill on 10 May 2010 11:47
Duncan Kennedy <nospam(a)nospamottersonbg.couk> wrote:

> The subject says it all. I've always been a fast and very bad typist
> and it's also taking time to get used to my new mac keyboard.
>
> Is there a way / application to link a spell checker to MacSOUP, please?

Not as far as I know :-(

This has been aired before, and always with the same result.

If anyone HAS found out how to do this, I would be very pleased to know!

John.

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From: Jim on 10 May 2010 11:53
On 2010-05-10, John Hill <nemo(a)erewhon.invalid> wrote:
> Duncan Kennedy <nospam(a)nospamottersonbg.couk> wrote:
>
>> The subject says it all. I've always been a fast and very bad typist
>> and it's also taking time to get used to my new mac keyboard.
>>
>> Is there a way / application to link a spell checker to MacSOUP, please?
>
> Not as far as I know :-(
>
> This has been aired before, and always with the same result.
>
> If anyone HAS found out how to do this, I would be very pleased to know!

Spell Catcher (http://www.rainmakerinc.com/) can. It seems to work as a
keyboard input manager thingy.

I got it in one of the recent software bundles. I can't seem to make it just
underline stuff, it simply pops up a window for the bad word as you're
typing. Effective, but a bit distracting.

Jim
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From: Hylton Boothroyd on 11 May 2010 20:27
Jim wrote that:
> John wrote that:
> > Duncan Kennedy asked:
> >>
> >> Is there a way / application to link a spell checker to MacSOUP, please?
> >
> > If anyone HAS found out how to do this, I would be very pleased to know!
>
> Spell Catcher (http://www.rainmakerinc.com/) can. It seems to work as a
> keyboard input manager thingy.

A bit old-fashioned, but effective: Excalibur will spell-check the
contents of the clipboard, which you can then re-insert into MacSOUP.

It's slightly unnerving because the alterations you ask for are stored
out of sight and only become visible when you do the re-insertion.

I've used it occasionally since OS 9 days -- I don't remember where it
came from!

[OS 10.4.11, Intel MacMini]
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From: Rowland McDonnell on 11 May 2010 21:54
Hylton Boothroyd <hylton.boothroyd(a)null.c0m.invalid> wrote:

> Jim wrote that:
> > John wrote that:
> > > Duncan Kennedy asked:
> > >>
> > >> Is there a way / application to link a spell checker to MacSOUP, please?
> > >
> > > If anyone HAS found out how to do this, I would be very pleased to know!
> >
> > Spell Catcher (http://www.rainmakerinc.com/) can. It seems to work as a
> > keyboard input manager thingy.
>
> A bit old-fashioned, but effective: Excalibur will spell-check the
> contents of the clipboard, which you can then re-insert into MacSOUP.

Yup.

> It's slightly unnerving because the alterations you ask for are stored
> out of sight and only become visible when you do the re-insertion.

Yup.

> I've used it occasionally since OS 9 days -- I don't remember where it
> came from!

I've been using it longer than that - since the System 7.blah days IIRC;
currently on 10.6.3 (C2D iMac).

> [OS 10.4.11, Intel MacMini]

It was developed as a spelling checker for TeX systems on Macs.

You can find it these days at:

<http://excalibur.sourceforge.net/>

Best to turn LaTeX command parsing off if you're not checking a LaTeX
document.

Rowland.

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