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Conference iosg::all-in-1_v30

Title:*OLD* ALL-IN-1 (tm) Support Conference
Notice:Closed - See Note 4331.l to move to IOSG::ALL-IN-1
Moderator:IOSG::PYE
Created:Thu Jan 30 1992
Last Modified:Tue Jan 23 1996
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:4343
Total number of notes:18308

2131.0. "PROBLEM WITH SPELLCHECK" by NEWOA::WILSON_S () Wed Jan 20 1993 16:07

    Hi,
    
    I have a problem with spellchecker.  Sometimes I spellcheck a document
    and the checker will stop on a word, for instance 'jan'.  I'm offered
    'ian' as an alternative.  I use ignore and then later in the document
    it may pick up another word that's not recognised, let's say 'multi'.  
    The first alternative is once again 'ian'.  This continues throughout 
    the document - 'ian' is always offered as the first choice to any
    unrecognised word.
    
    Apart from this, checker occasionally selects a numeric.  I am unable to
    use the option to ignore.  I get 'error in ignoring'.  I have to use
    Pass.
    
    As well as these problems, I find that the checker stops on words that
    are definitely in my personal dictionary.
    
    Any ideas?
    
    Sarah
    
    
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2131.5NOT ALONE WITH THIS PROBLEMNEWOA::WILSON_SMon Jan 25 1993 11:545
    I'd already tried formatting my dictionary.  I know that I'm not alone
    in suffering this problem (which seems to have occurred following our
    upgrade to ALL-IN-1 version 3).  
    
    
2131.7Try this ...SUBURB::CLEPHANEBTue Jan 26 1993 16:2036
    
    
    Sarah,
    
    I've managed to fix part of the problem, where the word "Ian" is
    offered as first choice replacement all the time, the problem with
    numerics and punctuation marks still exists though.
    
    Although its obviously a bit OTT, its a 'FIX ALL' method I've been
    using for quite a while now.
    
    Enter ALL-IN-1, create doc and GOLD-get any dictionaries you wish to
    retain.
    
    Delete dictionaries and empty wastebasket.
    
    Exit ALL-IN-1
    
    Delete [username.a1]WPL_DICTS.DAT and WPL_LANGS. These get recreated
    when the dictionaries get reinitialised.
    
    Delete username.PST from [username.A1] directory
    
    Delete *.LGP files from [username.A1.DOC0-9] directories 
    
    Enter ALL-IN-1, WP DIC, this will initialise dictionaries, CMD, and
    select BRITISH as ENGLISH is the default.
    
    Try again ... 
    
    Regards,
    
    Bruce
    
    ps. I've searched through STARS and found nothing ...
    
2131.13Grammar checker in V2.4 had a similar problemIOSG::MARCHANTI'm pink therefore I'm SPAMWed Feb 03 1993 22:2911
    There was a problem very similar to this with the grammar checker in
    ALL-IN-1 V2.4. The problem was due to limitations of the deferred image
    activation used by ALL-IN-1 and was worked around for ALL-IN-1 V3.0.
    For ALL-IN-1 V2.4, relinking without deferred image activation fixed the
    problem - you might like to see if this fixes your problem too.

    In any case, you should really raise an SPR so that it can be officially
    looked at.

    Cheers,
        Paul.
2131.14ANOTHER QUESTIONNEWOA::WILSON_SWed Feb 17 1993 12:3815
    Hi,
    
    A question.  When I invoke spellchecker how does it check what
    dictionaries are available?
    
    I have a personal.lgp in my .doc0 directory.  I also have a 
    personalbri.lgp.  I understand that ALL-IN-1 version 3 converted
    the dictionaries.  Could it be possible that the personal.lgp is
    still in the search list?
    
    If this was true, could anyone tell me if I would see the problems that 
    I mentioned in my first note?
    
    Sarah
    
2131.15No conversion of personal dictionaries in V3.0!IOSG::PYEGraham - ALL-IN-1 Sorcerer's ApprenticeThu Feb 18 1993 08:439
    V3.0 didn't convert the dictionaries. The system wide ones were totally
    replaced by ones in a new format. Exisiting personal ones will still
    work, and as far as I know, they don't get converted. If it was there
    before, it should still be there now. One of the data files, or a file
    cabinet pointer determines the exact name of your personal dictionary.
    
    YOu might want to ask in the linguistics conference about this.
    
    Graham