[Sca-cooks] spelling checkers

[Patricia Dunham]

Hi Stefan,

First, I’m on a Mac, so that may make a lot of the following not very helpful.

Basically, we went into the Preferences for the Mail program and told it to turn off the spell-checker altogether. This sounds good but didn’t work.

So we also went into the system preferences (Keyboard),to the Text tab, and UNchecked the “correct spelling automatically”. That did it, apparently. Now, I don’t know if you actually have to do BOTH steps, but when we did, whichever spell-check gave up.

PC “smart quotes” when viewed on a Mac, come across as question marks. PCs are universal, eh? Anything we do outside of proper HTML won’t make any difference, right? Hmm, that same location (System Preferences - Keyboard - Text) also lists good-old smart quotes! I just unchecked THAT completely... although I hadn't noticed the question mark thing at all. Maybe your system has that too.

Doncha' just love when the designers decide what's new and neat that they can do TO you? At least we still have SOME control, although it shrinks all the time, thanks to "Big Bro knows what's best for little-dumb-consumer"! Apple is increasingly removing existing functionality in favor of what THEY think their customers should be liking. They really don't like to leave the user with any possibility of  deciding what works for USER!

Well, that's enough whinging about Apple!
Hope any of the above will help!

chimene

> On Jan 13, 2017, at 11:45 PM, Stefan li Rous <stefanlirous at gmail.com> wrote:
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> chimene/chimney said:
> <<< OH! argle! ?chimney? again!  ?. well, looks like we finally found all the places to turn off auto-spell-check, so hopefully when I sign things ?chimene?, they?ll STAY ?chimene?!!! >>>
> 
> How? where do you do this? I’m getting rather tired of spelling checkers (mostly on Facebook?) that not only keep changing (wrongly) what I write to something else, but I’m even more upset at the ones that keep changing it back to the wrong item after I correct it!
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