My spelling is excellent (and I’m modest, too) but I always type with “check as you type” set to “on” in order to highlight typos. However, I can’t see a way to enable this in FWP 5. Surely this is a standard OSX feature which should be accessible?
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I don’t think that it is a feature of FWP 5.5 as of yet. Only cmd L (apple L) to start a spelling check or accessible from the Edit Menu.
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Darn. One of my reasons for upgrading from Claris Home Page was that I need instantaneous spell checking. Never even considered that it might be missing from FWP.
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One of my reasons for upgrading from Claris Home Page was that I need instantaneous spell checking
Never mind the fact that CHP doesn’t work in OSX and was discontinued in 2001!
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Although it’s 15 years old, CHP still works fine in “Classic”. I expected that something as expensive and comprehensive as FWP would support instantaneous spellchecking.
Also, when I paste a paragraph into FWP, why does it put the cursor at the beginning? Can this be corrected?
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That’s just not happening here. Are you running anything special
there? Do you have a system extension or anything else installed? Are
you using a Right to Left language in your Mac?
Walter
On Sep 26, 2010, at 1:31 AM, Kefala wrote:
Also, when I paste a paragraph into FWP, why does it put the cursor
at the beginning? Can this be corrected?
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I’m cutting directly from Claris Home Page. Hmm, it’s not happening when I cut from this Safari window! Interesting.
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Oh that makes a whole lot of sense! Clipboard manages a connection
between one application and another. CHP is so old that it’s
completely doubtful that it ever thought one moment about the
“endedness” of its files or data structures. Long ago, when dinosaurs
roamed the earth in great thundering packs, all Macintosh data was
stored in so-called “big-endian” format. Modern Macs use Intel
processors, which enforce the use of little-endian formats. More about
“endedness” here: Dr. Bill's Notes on "Little Endian" vs. "Big Endian"
I am just guessing here, but I suppose that the Mac OS (or Freeway)
may be sorting out the correct order of the data in terms of getting
the letters in the correct order, but setting the cursor at the wrong
end of the paste because of the difference in structure.
One thing you could try (in order to debug where the issue is actually
coming from) would be to try another application, like TextEdit (in
its plain text mode) or TextWrangler (free programmer’s editor – a
cut-down version of BBEdit – from http://barebones.com ) as an
intermediary. Copy your text from CHP, paste into TextWrangler, then
copy from TW and paste into Freeway.
If that works, then the issue might be one of Freeway not anticipating
this issue of endedness in clipboard data, or assuming that endedness
was a good way to set the cursor position after a paste. A complete
guess on my part, I have no special knowledge of the internals of
Freeway, and only a very dim and outdated understanding of the
internals of the Mac Clipboard.
Walter
On Sep 26, 2010, at 3:21 PM, Kefala wrote:
I’m cutting directly from Claris Home Page. Hmm, it’s not happening
when I cut from this Safari window! Interesting.
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If you do this, pay careful attention to where the cursor ends up
after the first paste – i.e. within TextEdit or TextWrangler or
whatever programmer’s text editor you have at hand.
Walter
On Sep 26, 2010, at 3:37 PM, Walter Lee Davis wrote:
One thing you could try (in order to debug where the issue is
actually coming from) would be to try another application, like
TextEdit (in its plain text mode) or TextWrangler (free programmer’s
editor – a cut-down version of BBEdit – fromhttp://barebones.com )
as an intermediary. Copy your text from CHP, paste into
TextWrangler, then copy from TW and paste into Freeway.
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If I paste from CHP into TextEdit then copy-paste from there into FWP5, the cursor goes to the end of the clip, as it should.
So clearly the problem is emanating from CHP, as you suggested.
I now have another problem and I wonder if it’s related? I’m getting file corruption which is doing weird things to the Preview, such as erasing the menu tabs at the top of the page.
I also notice that the “strong” style (which started off as plain “bold” has now become red at size 75%.
In fact the Styles list has filled up with a whole bunch of styles and temporary styles that I didn’t put there!
Is it possible that I’m pasting in some hidden code from CHP which is screwing everything up?
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I have experienced problems before with Microsoft Word Doc in that additional formatting is being added so it is quite possible that additional code is being added.
When using TextEdit I select all the text and use the Make Plain Text option from the Format Menu and copy that in, thus removing any formatted styles.
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If you use TextWrangler, or just switch a document in TextEdit over to
plain text mode, then when you paste into that document, any
formatting will be stripped, retaining only the text. When you next
copy all the text back out of your “cleaner” document, you will have
only the words, not the music.
Walter
On Oct 4, 2010, at 1:05 PM, ictlinks wrote:
I have experienced problems before with Microsoft Word Doc in that
additional formatting is being added so it is quite possible that
additional code is being added.When using TextEdit I select all the text and use the Make Plain
Text option from the Format Menu and copy that in, thus removing any
formatted styles.
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Hmm, damn and blast. Looks like weeks of work are going to be wasted.
How about if I simply view the page in Safari and copy=paste from there? Will that pick up any unwanted code?
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Try it, using Paste and Match Style in the Edit menu in Freeway to
strip out any extraneous bits.
Walter
On Oct 4, 2010, at 1:39 PM, Kefala wrote:
Hmm, damn and blast. Looks like weeks of work are going to be wasted.
How about if I simply view the page in Safari and copy=paste from
there? Will that pick up any unwanted code?
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OK, will do. thanks.
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