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[dgkanter]

Sidebar: Great program--and fabulous to hear you're continuing to support and improve it!

In e-mails, I substitute two hyphens for the em dash character as all my addressees can't handle the em dash--and the writing style is not to leave spaces around the em dash. So, if I type "This is true--if you", SCX reports "true--if" as a misspelling. I'd welcome a way for that use of two hyphens to be accepted.

TIA,

David

[paulc]

From the standpoint of a professional publisher, I have always written author guidelines exactly as you... no extra spaces and 2 standard hyphens. SCX recognizing this and creating the em dash seems like a good idea to me.

[dgkanter]

paulc, on Aug 1 2003, 11:32 AM, said:

From the standpoint of a professional publisher, I have always written author guidelines exactly as you... no extra spaces and 2 standard hyphens. SCX recognizing this and creating the em dash seems like a good idea to me.

Glad to hear I'm not alone with my writing style, but--just to ensure it's clear--I wouldn't want SCX to always substitute the em dash for two hyphens. While I'd like to be able to enable that automatic substiitution in, say, my word-processor application; I want to be able to suppress/disable that automatic substitution in my e-mail application. What I do want is that SCX not treat a double-hyphen between two valid words as questionable and from Evan's earlier reply, it shouldn't--and he'll see why it is doing that.

David

[dgkanter]

rriforumadmin, on Jul 28 2003, 12:37 PM, said:

dgkanter, on Jul 28 2003, 12:28 PM, said:

Sidebar: Great program--and fabulous to hear you're continuing to support and improve it!

In e-mails, I substitute two hyphens for the em dash character as all my addressees can't handle the em dash--and the writing style is not to leave spaces around the em dash. So, if I type "This is true--if you", SCX reports "true--if" as a misspelling. I'd welcome a way for that use of two hyphens to be accepted.

TIA,

David

This sounds odd - might be my bug. As long as each word around a hyphen is a valid word, you shouldn't have it flagged as an error. BUT the two hyphens in a row might be tripping things up, not sure right now. I'll take a look for the next version.

Evan

Congratulations on v10.1. Have it installed and working.

FWIW (in case it was supposed to be fixed), the above described problem with valid words around double hyphens (with automatic conversion to em dash disabled) being reported as a spelling error is still present in v10.1.

David

[Evan Gross]

dgkanter, on Feb 10 2004, 01:47 PM, said:

rriforumadmin, on Jul 28 2003, 12:37 PM, said:

dgkanter, on Jul 28 2003, 12:28 PM, said:

Sidebar: Great program--and fabulous to hear you're continuing to support and improve it!

In e-mails, I substitute two hyphens for the em dash character as all my addressees can't handle the em dash--and the writing style is not to leave spaces around the em dash. So, if I type "This is true--if you", SCX reports "true--if" as a misspelling. I'd welcome a way for that use of two hyphens to be accepted.

TIA,

David

This sounds odd - might be my bug. As long as each word around a hyphen is a valid word, you shouldn't have it flagged as an error. BUT the two hyphens in a row might be tripping things up, not sure right now. I'll take a look for the next version.

Evan

Congratulations on v10.1. Have it installed and working.

FWIW (in case it was supposed to be fixed), the above described problem with valid words around double hyphens (with automatic conversion to em dash disabled) being reported as a spelling error is still present in v10.1.

David

Oh well. Sorry about that. Can't do everything you know...

We'll try to remember and squeeze it into any bugfix we release.

Use the new "Send feedback" item in the Help menu to remind me.

[AexChecker]

dgkanter, on Jul 28 2003, 11:28 AM, said:

... SCX reports "true--if" as a misspelling. ...

Misspelling is the very known problem. For example: In the ongoing quest to find great deal on eBay or even to find items you can flip, one of the interesting approaches is by looking for misspelled items. One of the most common misspellings was "labtop" for "laptop". This misspelling is so common that some people listing laptops actually use the word "labtop" in their title. Check it out ). See (link deleted by administrator).

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(ed. link to what appears to be a site with more google ads than information removed: misspelling _dot_ kiev _dot_ ua. Easy for a human to use that info to view it, but not something we want to promote or advertise on, or let the bots that spider our site index, either).

While not really spam, this post has no bearing on this thread, but I don't generally delete postings. In this case, an edit was probably a good idea.