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- >>>>> "Donald" == Donald Burr <d_burr@ix.netcom.com> writes:
-
- Donald> On 13 Mar 1996, Yaron M. Minsky wrote:
- >> I'm using Word 5.1a on E/L 1.99q7. I've noticed that
- >> spell-checking is really awfully slow. Does anyone know a)
- >> why, b) how it can be fixed c) if this is something that will
- >> be fixed in future revisions of executor
- >>
- >> Thanks, and kudos on all the good work,
-
- Donald> I have noticed the slow spell checking too. It was even
- Donald> slow for me when I was running Word5 on a real Mac (I had
- Donald> a Classic; well, that is understandable, but it was also
- Donald> slow for me on the IIsi I bought later).
-
- Donald> When I was using it on the Mac, I was able to get it to
- Donald> run faster (at the expense of a feature) by turning off
- Donald> "Always suggest correct spellings" (or whatever) in the
- Donald> Spelling "control panel". I did this because I know how
- Donald> to spell and usually make errors like "Teh" instead of
- Donald> "The", which is obvious enough that I don't need it to
- Donald> suggest a correct spelling. When I run into a tricky
- Donald> word, like "ornithology" I can then hit the "Suggest"
- Donald> button to have it make a suggestion.
-
- Donald> I'd like to do this under Executor, the only problem is
- Donald> that (apparently) any changes I make to the Spelling
- Donald> preferences DO NOT GET SAVED!! Which is pretty odd, don't
- Donald> you think?
-
- Known bug.
-
- Donald> I also cannot use Custom dictionaries. They just don't
- Donald> work, for some reason.
-
- Ditto.
-
- Donald> Are you aware of this, ARDI (or other Executor people)?
- Donald> Any workarounds/fixes in the works?
-
- No workarounds that we know of. I've marked these as things to try to
- look at before we release E2, but we may choose to rush E2 out now and
- then get some patches out soon thereafter.
-
- Donald> Donald Burr [d_burr@ix.netcom.com], PO Box 91212, Santa
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-
- --Cliff
- ctm@ardi.com
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