On 9/23/02 2:34 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said; >>4) Not just a good spell checker, but a great spell checker. Eudora's >>spell checker SUCKED. Emailers is the BEST. PowerMail has NONE. I want >>one. > >Wrong solution. Spell checkers should be available everwhere in the OS. >There are several of those for OS X. Get those instead.
This is one of those solutions that I have not yet been able to embrace. One of my first apps was called Fair Witness. It was great for setting up workshops, lesson plans, and brainstorming. And it had a place to attach a spell checker of your choice, much as you are suggesting here. But I found that it (SpellsWell) would sometimes unattach it's self from FW so was an occasional hassle to use. I also picked up SpellTools long ago. That works more globally instead of just with programs that left a way to plug them in. But, the reason I am still shy about adopting a platform wide Spell checker like Cassidy & Green's Spell Catcher, comes from my past experience with inherent instability with an individual program's extensions, or ways of doing things, with the global spell checkers that I Have tried. The idea sounds good, having just one dictionary. But I have crashed so many times with one spell checker or another. I certainly haven't tried them all. But in general I would prefer that each program just put in a good spell checker of their own. When a spell checker crashes, it is often just before I saved the document that I was writing. I Have lost more than a few things I was writing that I would have rather kept safe. So I learned to back up before spell checking when using third party spell checkers and, to avoid the inherent instability of third party spell checkers in the first place. Perhaps a company with a good product and reputation like SpellCatcher by Cassidy & Green, might be something I would look at at some point. But after sending in the share ware fee for SpellsWell and finding the crashes in SpellTools unfixable because the author has never responded to any emails, I have been left with a bad taste in my mouth for that genre of software. A silly transference perhaps but I have not felt convinced that the product would be able to keep up with all the changes in individual programs designs over the years. When I upgrade with a specific platform and I am already using that program's spell checker, at least I know that as long as I continue with that software the spell checker will continue to work. I am not yet confident that is going to be true with third party spell checkers. Dave Groover ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
