I am wondering if there is a way of getting Spell Catcher to check words and phrases that are normally correct, but do not comply with “house rules” or rules established for a particular publication.
For instance, a house rule might be that the phrase “a buy-back” or “a buyback” should be “a buy back” and “bought-back” or a “boughtback” be a “bought back” (new City/Wall Street jargon). Another rule is that “adviser” be used instead “advisor”; also euro rather than Euro (or its symbol) - and so forth. And also check that diacritics are present for some words, for example a circumflex on the “o” in role.
I would like to have more than one file for this in order to cover different “rules” for a variety of publications and that Spell Catcher can find phrases rather than just single words.
I envisage that the correct word/phrase can be entered more than once in one column depending upon the number of alternates in another column.
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House rules checker
Started by ozsprings, Nov 17 2003 11:01 AM
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Posted 18 November 2003 - 01:43 AM
ozsprings, on Nov 17 2003, 12:01 PM, said:
I am wondering if there is a way of getting Spell Catcher to check words and phrases that are normally correct, but do not comply with “house rules” or rules established for a particular publication.
For instance, a house rule might be that the phrase “a buy-back” or “a buyback” should be “a buy back” and “bought-back” or a “boughtback” be a “bought back” (new City/Wall Street jargon). Another rule is that “adviser” be used instead “advisor”; also euro rather than Euro (or its symbol) - and so forth. And also check that diacritics are present for some words, for example a circumflex on the “o” in role.
I would like to have more than one file for this in order to cover different “rules” for a variety of publications and that Spell Catcher can find phrases rather than just single words.
I envisage that the correct word/phrase can be entered more than once in one column depending upon the number of alternates in another column.
For instance, a house rule might be that the phrase “a buy-back” or “a buyback” should be “a buy back” and “bought-back” or a “boughtback” be a “bought back” (new City/Wall Street jargon). Another rule is that “adviser” be used instead “advisor”; also euro rather than Euro (or its symbol) - and so forth. And also check that diacritics are present for some words, for example a circumflex on the “o” in role.
I would like to have more than one file for this in order to cover different “rules” for a variety of publications and that Spell Catcher can find phrases rather than just single words.
I envisage that the correct word/phrase can be entered more than once in one column depending upon the number of alternates in another column.
Good idea for the future, though.
