Hello!
I mainly use the German references.
I recognized, that there are some misspellings, that SpellCatcher does not recognize. So, I would like to be able to edit the references that are shipped with SpellCatcher. Unfortunately, SpellCatcher does not allow this. Is there a way to tell SpellCatcher about bad spellings? For example I sometimes type "dei" for "die". "dei" is not a valid German word, so it should be recognized by SpellCatcher, but it doesn't mark it as an error.
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Editing default spelling references
Started by Helg, Dec 12 2006 05:01 AM
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Posted 12 December 2006 - 11:19 PM
Helg, on Dec 12 2006, 05:01 AM, said:
Hello!
I mainly use the German references.
I recognized, that there are some misspellings, that SpellCatcher does not recognize. So, I would like to be able to edit the references that are shipped with SpellCatcher. Unfortunately, SpellCatcher does not allow this. Is there a way to tell SpellCatcher about bad spellings? For example I sometimes type "dei" for "die". "dei" is not a valid German word, so it should be recognized by SpellCatcher, but it doesn't mark it as an error.
Helge
I mainly use the German references.
I recognized, that there are some misspellings, that SpellCatcher does not recognize. So, I would like to be able to edit the references that are shipped with SpellCatcher. Unfortunately, SpellCatcher does not allow this. Is there a way to tell SpellCatcher about bad spellings? For example I sometimes type "dei" for "die". "dei" is not a valid German word, so it should be recognized by SpellCatcher, but it doesn't mark it as an error.
Helge
Hi there,
I'm not seeing the same thing as you, at least with respect to the word "dei" in German. I'm seeing that the word "Dei" (capitalized) is in the German Spellings database - whether that's also incorrect is something I'm not qualified to say. That would mean that Spell Catcher would mark "dei" as a capitalization error.
Anyway, there are two different ways to deal with this sort of thing:
1. If you always want a specific word flagged as an error, you would add it to an Omitted Words document. In the Spell Catcher application, choose File > New > Omitted Words, set the language appropriately, then add that word AND any case variations (capitalized, upper case) that you want flagged as an omitted word. Then that word will always be flagged as an error, and will never be offered as a suggestion.
2. If you want the word automatically fixed when you make a typo, add a new shorthand. In this case, add "dei" -> "die".
The two methods are very different, choose which works best for you.
