on 2001-05-29 16:02, Gil Gordon whose email address shall also remain
anonymous graciously wrote:
> On 5/26/01 9:15 AM, Eric Tr�panier whose e-mail address shall remain
> anonymous, wrote:
>
>> 1. Sometimes, when proofing my documents in Entourage, the "Add" option in
>> the Control-click menu is grayed out...
> I don't see this, I can add words regardless of which dictionary is
> selected. Can you provide exact steps to reproduce?
Ok, lately, I've been using Entourage mostly for English language messages,
so my language setting was set to English (US). I can't reproduce the above
problem in this case: I hit reply on your message and set the language to
French Canadian. At this point, some of the words in the subject textbox
become underlined with wavy red lines. So does the text that I type, but all
the indented "reply text" is left untouched (and unmarked). If I
control-click on the underlined words, the Add menu is enabled.
Now, I close Entourage (with the language still set to French Canadian) and
restart it again and then proceed to reply to your message. This time, when
I control-click an underlined word, the Add menu is disabled. If I change
the language to English (US) and back to French Canadian the Add menu is
enabled again. This seems to be reproducible. It definitely looks to me like
a bug... Do you understand what I am talking about?
>> 3. In my Mac Office edition, I have English (AUS), English (UK), English
>> (US), French and French Canadian spelling dictionaries...
> To get rid of Australian, remove all the files that has 'Australian' in
> their name from the proofing tools folder. I don't think you can get rid of
> the English (UK) one, but I haven't tried very hard.
Thanks.
>> Does anybody know how to select a different language in the Mac OS X system
>> spelling service (the one used in the Mail app for instance)? It always
>> uses English on my system, even on a French Mac OS X desktop...
> Go to the system's international preferences panel and make French your 1st
> choice. This will also set the UI of Mail.app to French
This hasn't been my experience. I have installed a French OS X system on an
iMac computer (selecting French as the preferred language in the installer).
Upon logging on to the desktop, all user interface elements are in French,
including the Mail application but when I compose a message in it, it still
appears to be using an English spell checker. Besides, I stumbled upon this
web page yesterday which sheds some light on this subject:
http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/tg3907/mlingos9.html?mtbrand=AOL_US#osx
Specifically, one paragraph reads:
"OS X includes a system-wide spell-checker, which is accessible from any
Cocoa program via the Edit/Spelling menu. So far the only dictionary
available is for U.S. English, but it seems likely that Apple or other
parties will eventually add some for the other system languages."
Besides, forcing the user to alter his default user-interface language to
allow him to use other language spelling checkers would strike me as a very
poor UI design decision. This needs to be implemented as a per-app setting,
much like the way Word and Entourage handle this. Word is especially
brilliant in that it allows users to have paragraphs (or even just words) of
multiple languages and automatically knows which spelling dictionary to use
with each paragraph. Entourage only has a "global" language setting that
applies to a message as a whole...
>> PS: when proofing this email message, the spelling checker fails to
>> recognize my email address above and put wavy red lines underneath it, yet I
>> have the option to "Ignore Internet and file addresses"... Why is it not
>> recognizing my email address as such and ignoring it? I've noticed the same
>> problem in Outlook 2000 under Windows...
> I can't reproduce this either.
Actually, when I type in my email address, Entourage does not immediately
flag it as incorrect, but if I use the Tools > Spelling command, the
Spelling dialog will eventually prompt me to correct it. If I click
'Ignore', then all is well and my address no longer will be picked by
successive run in the Spelling dialog box, but if I click cancel, the dialog
box is dismissed and my email address is now underlined in red. Can you
repeat/confirm this behavior? My point is that the Spelling dialog box
should also automatically ignore email addresses, just like the "Check
spelling as you type" feature...
Thanks your for your helpful reply though!
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�ric Tr�panier
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