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[yorkio]

The ability to make your own macros is very handy, but is it possible to add new modules to Spell Catcher? Things like...

* make text lower case
* make text sentence case (just about the only thing I like about Word!)
* replace space-hyphen-space with space-dash-space

I've only been using the demo for a few days but can already tell the Form Paragraphs module is going to be incredibly handy for speedily tidying up copy from those writers who still can't figure out how to attach Word files to their emails!

[Evan Gross]

yorkio, on Jul 27 2005, 05:10 PM, said:

The ability to make your own macros is very handy, but is it possible to add new modules to Spell Catcher? Things like...

* make text lower case
* make text sentence case (just about the only thing I like about Word!)
* replace space-hyphen-space with space-dash-space

I've only been using the demo for a few days but can already tell the Form Paragraphs module is going to be incredibly handy for speedily tidying up copy from those writers who still can't figure out how to attach Word files to their emails!

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We do have a built-in module for lowercase (also UPPERCASE and Title Case), but not sentence case (though Spell Catcher 8 has one). You should see these in any of the various Modify Selection submenus.

As for replacing space-hyphen-space with space-dash-space, there is an interactive feature (SCX Preferences, Interactive pane, Automatic tab) to change consecutively-typed hyphens to en and em-dashes. Of course, that's not for already-written text...

And yes, form paragraphs combined with stripping characters or white space is incredibly useful for cleaning up ugly emails!