Re: Speller...

[Roy Harris <mrh3b>]

"M.W. Poirier" wrote:
>
>    I have a bit of a problem with the spell checker.  I've noticed that
>    on many occasions the spell checker does not suggest alternative or
>    correct spellings for words that have as little as one letter out of
>    place.  At first, I thought that it was because the word was not in
>    the speller, or the speller contained only the root word.  However,
>    I then discovered that that was not the case.  Indeed, the whole word
>    was in the speller.  So, now for my question; why isn't the speller
>    recognizing the mispelled word, ...especially, when there is only one
>    letter out of place, or alternatively, why isn't it suggesting a list
>    of alternatives?
>
>    Do I need to re-configure the programme for this to take place?  I
>    seem to recall reading that the dictionary can be reconfigured, but I
>    can't find the item I read, nor whether this was one of the things
>    than can be changed.
>
>    Please reply to my e-mail address, ...especially, if you suspect that
>    the answer is obvious to everyone.
>
>    M.W. Poirier
>    poirmw

If you are only having a bit of a problem with NB's speller, count
yourself lucky! You don't mention whether you are talking about the
English or the French speller, or which version of NB you are using. The
ones for NB 3 and 4.1 and 4.2 are the same; I don't know about 4.5. In
any case, about the best that one can say of the spellers that NB
licensed from Microlytics, Inc. is that they are not very good,
especially for offering alternates for misspelled words. What's worse is
the fact that they flag as misspelled so many correctly spelled forms.

There was a great deal of discussion from me and others about the
problems and some solutions some years ago. You might want to check to
see if those messages are archived.

Let's hope that NB for Windows will not use anything by Microlytics, if
the company is still around!

Roy Harris
mrh3b