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>I must have missed the original post.  Time to defend the MWII spell checker.
>
>The suggestion list WriteNow gives you is a series of buttons.  MacWrite II 
>gives you a scrolling list (like in the Open/Save dialogs) and a text-edit
>field.  You can type in the correct spelling, double-click on the correct

I like that much better than the button method. I think that the buttons
ruin the spell checker in Write now. Spelling coach uses a popup menu
with the same command keys.

>One minor quibble.  While I find our spelling checker much better at most 
>things than WriteNow's, one property annoys me: our dialog is not modeless,
>but merely movable.  You have to hit "Cancel" to get back to the document.

When you move your dialog box and it happens to cover the growbox on the window
Macwrite II forgets to redraw it. OOPS!

>>>...locate repeated words, such as "the the," which is more
>>>of a typo than a grammatical error.
>> 
>>  Nice, this I haven't seen.

>I have, and it's nice.  Unfortunately, we don't do it, either.

Spelling coach does this and its great. It also checks for correct
punctuation.

>>>Now put all this into a desk accessory, make it dirt-cheap,
>>>and you'll have something.
>> 
Spelling coach is a DA.

>A few other selling points about MWII's spelling checker:
>	# It can check just a selected range of text, the whole main
>	  body, or the whole document (headers, footers, and footnotes
>	  included).
>
>	# It can spellcheck as you type.  Personally, I find this
>	  incredibly annoying, but you can have the program beep
>	  at you, or just flash the menu bar, every time you type
>	  a misspelled word.  A menu command (with a keyboard
>	  equivalent, Thank God!), lets you check that word 
>	  immediately.
>
>	# Within the spelling dialog, you can type any word (in the
>	  edit box) and check its spelling, get suggestions, etc.
>
>	# We have (or will have soon) dictionaries in about ten
>	  foreign languages (British, Spanish, French, German,
>	  Swedish, Danish, Portuguese, Norwegian,.....)  You'll
>	  have to call our customer service dept. for details
>	  about this.

Spelling Coach Does all of this and is a da that works in all applications
except for MacWrite II. It also has leagl and Medical dictionaries.
Its the only spell checker I use. If I used
the spelling checker that came with each application it would take up
tremendous amout of disk space. Now macdraw is going to have a spell checker?
Whats up! I 'll say that macwrite spell checker has improved a lot, but when
the fix from deneba comes for MWII, my disk will be spared another dictionary.

Now if I only new how the get the speeler to work on UNIX (tm). :-)

P.S. There is a slight problem with your spell Selection. but i will
send you a list of all the things that I find to you later.

>Jeff Erickson       Claris Corporation  | Birdie, birdie, in the sky,
>408/987-7309      Applelink: Erickson4  |   Why'd you do that in my eye?
>krazy@claris.com     ames!claris!krazy  | I won't fret, and I won't cry.
>       "I'm a heppy, heppy ket!"        |   I'm just glad that cows don't fly.

P.S.S Why don't you binhex the password and...









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