Evanth, Henrik wrote: > Hi all, > > In our user guide we have a customized arrow. To apply it in the user > guide, the writer has to type '}' and then apply a character format to > that character. The Character format uses a customized font which means > that the '}' is transformed into a nice-looking arrow. > > When I spell-check, the spell-checker stops at every arrow as the > character is included in the "Space before" field in the Spelling > Checker "Options" dialog. So to avoid this (we have a lot of arrows in > the user guide) I set Languge to "None" for the specific character > format. And this works fine, almost(!). > > Now the problem: > When the character with the special character format is positioned first > in a paragraph, the spell-checker does not check the other words in the > paragraph. You get the feeling that if the first character/word in a > paragraph is set to Language=None the whole paragraph is set to > Language=None. Have you seen this before? Anyone have a solution? > > I guess you could remove the '}' from the "Space before" field but then > you won't find incorrect usage of '}' > >
Perhaps you could define a variable with the character tag applied and insert that instead. (I haven't tested that idea in regard to spell-checking, but in any case, it could simplify the insertion of your arrows.) -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited Toronto, ON, Canada +1 (416) 491-7340 x 325 srogers phoenix-geophysics com "Democracy: you can?t export it abroad when you don?t practise it at home." --Jack Layton Get Firefox! http://tinyurl.com/8q9c5
