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#1 andrewtetley

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Posted 18 January 2005 - 04:12 PM

I have a suggestion.

In OS X, you can select under the Spelling menu of a carbon program to force the spell checker to check across multi language dictionaries. I write in French and English and am constantly having to switch back and forward. It would be nice if Spell Catcher had an option to allow “combo spell checking” for people like me so that I could set it once and forget about whether what I am about to write is in French or English. Like OS X built in spell checker.

The existing option in Spell Catcher to “guess” the language for a particular paragraph is not much use for people in my situation because it is not interactive and anyway I mix French and English in the same paragraph.

Just a thought

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Posted 18 January 2005 - 06:27 PM

Interesting idea, it is technically possible - not sure of the possible performance or other issues involved, though.

Request noted.

#3 Gregor Back

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Posted 20 March 2005 - 07:57 AM

Evan Gross, on Jan 19 2005, 01:27 AM, said:

Interesting idea, it is technically possible - not sure of the possible performance or other issues involved, though.

Request noted.

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One of the most interesting features of SC is the multi-language possibility. I also use 2 and 3 languages at the same time or in 1 document and I can only support this suggestion. :)