On or near 10/28/02 5:18 PM, Neil at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed: > on 10/28/02 1:03 PM, Allen Watson wrote: > >> Not an answer but a comment: I loved SpellCatcher. Cassidy & Greene have >> said for ages that they were working on a version, but apparently the >> company has fallen on hard times and is laying off people, so (IMO) it now >> looks doubtful that SpellCatcher will ever make it to OS X. > > That is very sad news. What do people use now in X for spell checking in > Instant Messages, usenet postings, etc? > I don't use Instant Messaging (yet), so that isn't an issue for me. But for mail and newsgroups, I can use the spell checker built into MS Office, since I use Entourage. BBEdit also has a built-in spellchecker.
Excalibur 4.0 is a carbonized general-purpose spell checker that can be used from any application. It's a bit cumbersome to use. You must copy text (plain text only) to the clipboard, switch to Excalibur, run the spelling check, close the window to copy any changes to the clipboard, and then switch back to the original app and paste. It claims to support word services, so that apps like Tex-Edit Plus, BBEdit, and MT-Newswatcher, can use it via the Services menu, but that does not seem to work for me. I've only put a couple of minutes into trying to make that work... There are other spellcheckers that work with word services. See <http://www.wordservices.org/>. -- Microsoft MVP for Entourage/OE/Word (MVPs are volunteers) Allen Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Entourage FAQ site: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/> AppleScripts for Outlook Express and Entourage: <http://members.thinkaccess.net/allenwatson@;thinkaccess.net/Scripts/> Entourage Help Pages: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/> -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:Entourage-Talk-Off@;lists.letterrip.com> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
