Evan,
Awhile back I posted this problem and you said you'd look into it (with no promises) but I can't find my post now so will post it again. I do a lot of writing and part of my writing style is the use of three periods between phrases, e.g. "The iPhone isn't for everyone...though it might be for you." There is no way for Spell Catcher to "learn" these three periods unless I duplicate the entire dictionary using identical words with three trailing periods.
While I'm a Spell Catcher customer and fan...this problem is so frustrating and finally to the point I'll have to uninstall Spell Catcher to keep it from popping up and annoying me ten times per page. I realize this is just my style of writing and not your problem, but I find it odd that Spell Catcher doesn't mind if I use other characters, like the underscore, hyphen, equal sign...many others. Just the periods give me a problem.
While I could try to change my writing style, that's a bit difficult after 40 years of writing, so I'm hoping you'll figure out a way to allow these three trailing periods after a word. Thanks.
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Problem with periods
Started by larrymcj, Jul 02 2009 12:05 PM
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Posted 02 July 2009 - 07:20 PM
larrymcj, on Jul 2 2009, 01:05 PM, said:
Evan,
Awhile back I posted this problem and you said you'd look into it (with no promises) but I can't find my post now so will post it again. I do a lot of writing and part of my writing style is the use of three periods between phrases, e.g. "The iPhone isn't for everyone...though it might be for you." There is no way for Spell Catcher to "learn" these three periods unless I duplicate the entire dictionary using identical words with three trailing periods.
While I'm a Spell Catcher customer and fan...this problem is so frustrating and finally to the point I'll have to uninstall Spell Catcher to keep it from popping up and annoying me ten times per page. I realize this is just my style of writing and not your problem, but I find it odd that Spell Catcher doesn't mind if I use other characters, like the underscore, hyphen, equal sign...many others. Just the periods give me a problem.
While I could try to change my writing style, that's a bit difficult after 40 years of writing, so I'm hoping you'll figure out a way to allow these three trailing periods after a word. Thanks.
Awhile back I posted this problem and you said you'd look into it (with no promises) but I can't find my post now so will post it again. I do a lot of writing and part of my writing style is the use of three periods between phrases, e.g. "The iPhone isn't for everyone...though it might be for you." There is no way for Spell Catcher to "learn" these three periods unless I duplicate the entire dictionary using identical words with three trailing periods.
While I'm a Spell Catcher customer and fan...this problem is so frustrating and finally to the point I'll have to uninstall Spell Catcher to keep it from popping up and annoying me ten times per page. I realize this is just my style of writing and not your problem, but I find it odd that Spell Catcher doesn't mind if I use other characters, like the underscore, hyphen, equal sign...many others. Just the periods give me a problem.
While I could try to change my writing style, that's a bit difficult after 40 years of writing, so I'm hoping you'll figure out a way to allow these three trailing periods after a word. Thanks.
Request noted (but not yet dealt with). I did look at this, it wasn't going to be trivial to handle. No promises.
You really do this ten times per page of written text?
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Posted 02 July 2009 - 07:33 PM
Evan Gross, on Jul 2 2009, 08:20 PM, said:
Request noted (but not yet dealt with). I did look at this, it wasn't going to be trivial to handle. No promises.
You really do this ten times per page of written text?
You really do this ten times per page of written text?
Well, that's probably an exaggeration, but surely more than five :-) Most people use a couple of hyphens -- to accomplish the same thing, but I always felt that was cumbersome.
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Posted 02 July 2009 - 07:49 PM
Evan,
On second thought...please don't bother doing something special just for me. There's actually another issue I've run into that I can't solve with Spell Catcher that is another reason I'll probably have to discontinue its use. I have to do a great deal Google searching and searching even on my own machine in a day, and I don't have time to properly capitalize things, which I don't need to do for search...but do need to do for Spell Catcher. If I type "usb" instead of "USB" when using Google, SC is, of course, going to audibly warn me with "capitalization" and this happens for many words or phrases for which I need to search. Same thing for typing in email addresses in Gmail...it's forever telling me to capitalize my own last name <g>, and while it's correct...it's bothersome. I would want it to catch these things in the body of an email but it does so also in the address fields.
These are just things I should have noticed before I purchased SC so it's MY fault :-) I should have waited out the trial instead of purchasing it immediately. It's a wonderful utility, but I understand it has to serve the majority, and I think I just don't fit into that category.
On second thought...please don't bother doing something special just for me. There's actually another issue I've run into that I can't solve with Spell Catcher that is another reason I'll probably have to discontinue its use. I have to do a great deal Google searching and searching even on my own machine in a day, and I don't have time to properly capitalize things, which I don't need to do for search...but do need to do for Spell Catcher. If I type "usb" instead of "USB" when using Google, SC is, of course, going to audibly warn me with "capitalization" and this happens for many words or phrases for which I need to search. Same thing for typing in email addresses in Gmail...it's forever telling me to capitalize my own last name <g>, and while it's correct...it's bothersome. I would want it to catch these things in the body of an email but it does so also in the address fields.
These are just things I should have noticed before I purchased SC so it's MY fault :-) I should have waited out the trial instead of purchasing it immediately. It's a wonderful utility, but I understand it has to serve the majority, and I think I just don't fit into that category.
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Posted 02 July 2009 - 08:10 PM
larrymcj, on Jul 2 2009, 08:49 PM, said:
Evan,
On second thought...please don't bother doing something special just for me. There's actually another issue I've run into that I can't solve with Spell Catcher that is another reason I'll probably have to discontinue its use. I have to do a great deal Google searching and searching even on my own machine in a day, and I don't have time to properly capitalize things, which I don't need to do for search...but do need to do for Spell Catcher. If I type "usb" instead of "USB" when using Google, SC is, of course, going to audibly warn me with "capitalization" and this happens for many words or phrases for which I need to search. Same thing for typing in email addresses in Gmail...it's forever telling me to capitalize my own last name <g>, and while it's correct...it's bothersome. I would want it to catch these things in the body of an email but it does so also in the address fields.
These are just things I should have noticed before I purchased SC so it's MY fault :-) I should have waited out the trial instead of purchasing it immediately. It's a wonderful utility, but I understand it has to serve the majority, and I think I just don't fit into that category.
On second thought...please don't bother doing something special just for me. There's actually another issue I've run into that I can't solve with Spell Catcher that is another reason I'll probably have to discontinue its use. I have to do a great deal Google searching and searching even on my own machine in a day, and I don't have time to properly capitalize things, which I don't need to do for search...but do need to do for Spell Catcher. If I type "usb" instead of "USB" when using Google, SC is, of course, going to audibly warn me with "capitalization" and this happens for many words or phrases for which I need to search. Same thing for typing in email addresses in Gmail...it's forever telling me to capitalize my own last name <g>, and while it's correct...it's bothersome. I would want it to catch these things in the body of an email but it does so also in the address fields.
These are just things I should have noticed before I purchased SC so it's MY fault :-) I should have waited out the trial instead of purchasing it immediately. It's a wonderful utility, but I understand it has to serve the majority, and I think I just don't fit into that category.
Why not:
1. Turn off detection of capitalization errors in your web browser (Spell Catcher Preferences, Spelling pane, Checking tab), or
2. If you usually get alerted to these errors when you press return/enter to submit a form, select to ignore the most recently-typed word when followed by Return (just for your web browser). That what I do, helps a lot.
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Posted 04 July 2009 - 05:48 AM
Evan Gross, on Jul 2 2009, 09:10 PM, said:
Why not:
1. Turn off detection of capitalization errors in your web browser (Spell Catcher Preferences, Spelling pane, Checking tab), or
2. If you usually get alerted to these errors when you press return/enter to submit a form, select to ignore the most recently-typed word when followed by Return (just for your web browser). That what I do, helps a lot.
1. Turn off detection of capitalization errors in your web browser (Spell Catcher Preferences, Spelling pane, Checking tab), or
2. If you usually get alerted to these errors when you press return/enter to submit a form, select to ignore the most recently-typed word when followed by Return (just for your web browser). That what I do, helps a lot.
This would work if I didn't use Gmail, but I do. I want Spell Catcher to work in the body of my emails, but it can't be separated from the email address fields.
NOTE: I have email notifications turned on here but I'm not getting them...just thought you'd want to know. Glad I checked or would have missed your post.
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Posted 21 July 2009 - 09:46 PM
larrymcj, on Jul 4 2009, 06:48 AM, said:
NOTE: I have email notifications turned on here but I'm not getting them...just thought you'd want to know. Glad I checked or would have missed your post.
These seem to be working for me - are you sure the subscriptions you have are for the right forums/topics?
