Can the spelling checker be trusted?

[Jenny Greenleaf]

It does! It says it's name.....no wait, this is Monday. Drat.

I tried putting the cursor in various places around the miscreant word. It finds it only if it is in the same paragraph. The paragraph is only four lines long, but breaks across two pages. The cursor must be before the word, but not after. It doesn't matter which page.

Frame's spelling checker does not appear to work backwards. 

There's also an option under "Dictionaries" to "Mark All Paragraphs for Rechecking."  It's an odd dialog box, full of rather unrelated radio button options. Anyway, I tried the "Mark All Paragraphs for Rechecking"  option, but it didn't make any difference.

Closing Frame and restarting it didn't help either, though it does make my scroll bars work again for a time. 

Frame seems rather unbelievably buggy sometimes considering what I paid for it. 

Jenny Greenleaf
Portland, OR


On May 24, 2010, at 3:40 PM, Alan T Litchfield wrote:

> Didn't happen to have white stripes and go by the name of Freddie did it?
> 
> Could explain explain the resurgence ;)
> 
> Alan
> 
> On 25/05/2010, at 10:35 AM, Scott Prentice wrote:
> 
>> Hi Jenny...
>> 
>> This brings up my memory of "the evil dot." Back in 1995 or 6(?) (FM 4 or 5) I ran into a file that exhibited similar strange behavior. I could search (forward) for a word that I knew was in the file, and it would never find it. But, if I searched backwards it found the word without trouble. Spell checking had similar issues. I found that if the cursor was after a certain point in the file, the word could be found. After a bit of thrashing about, I discovered that the culprit was a period (the evil dot). If I deleted this period everything worked fine.
>> 
>> What was happening is that the period was like a black hole that caused any processing to return to the beginning of the file. I could copy this character into any other file and the same thing would happen .. but if I saved the file to MIF, there was nothing apparently special about it .. just a simple period.
>> 
>> I saved the period off in a file for later use (don't ask) .. but somewhere along the way it was lost (maybe it found its way to your file).
>> 
>> I suppose it's possible that you have a similar situation .. see if you also can't search for this misspelling .. and see how far away from the word you can move the cursor and have it still found. Try searching backwards. Who knows.
>> 
>> I've not seen this behavior again in FM, so I don't think it's a serious problem, but maybe it's making a resurgence. Or maybe this is a totally different problem.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> ...scott
>> 
>> Scott Prentice
>> Leximation, Inc.
>> www.leximation.com
>> +1.415.485.1892
>> 
>> 
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