On or near 11/1/02 5:26 AM, Nat at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed: > on 10/29/02 9:26 AM, Allen Watson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> 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. > > LOL, I sometimes use Entourage for that purpose. > I was mistaken, actually. Excalibur works via Word services for apps that support that feature, such as BBEdit, Tex-Edit Plus, and MT-Newswatcher. With a message or file open in one of those apps, you can then select "Spell" from the appropriate menu. It <automatically> copies the text to Excalibur, where you run the spelling check. When that completes, it <automatically> switches back to the original app and replaces the text with the corrected version. That gives the benefit of a universal spelling dictionary. Unfortunately, Microsoft apps can't be included since they don't seem to have Word Services support.
Another benefit of Excalibur is that it has dictionaries for atomic elements, biblical terms, biomedical terms, British English, Catalan, Danish, Dutch (both old and new spellings), French, German, HTML, Indonesian, Italian, life sciences, Manx Gaelic, medical terms, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish. Note that Word Services are not the same as "Services" in the application menu. I confused the two for some time. Services were first supported only in Cocoa apps. Later, Apple extended it to Carbon apps, but the apps have to be reprogrammed to make use of them, and the applications that provide the services also have to be programmed to do so. Entourage will be supporting Services soon, from what I hear. But I have not heard of any plans to add Word Services support, which isn't surprising, since that mostly adds support for 3rd party spelling checkers, and MS has their own. -- 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/>
