Re: Typo problems in Mail app

In article <uce-F7BC0C.08491204012009@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Gregory Weston <uce@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In article <3pE7l.1967$gE4.712@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Tim Murray <no-spam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Fri, 2 Jan 2009 22:42:03 -0500, Jeffrey Jones wrote:
In article <0001HW.C5836E260042932EB01AD9AF@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft@xxxxxx> wrote:

On Fri, 2 Jan 2009 06:03:59 -0600, Peter James wrote (in article
<1isx01q.1gh0wxo13aj0hgN%pfjames2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):

As a result of my "crap" typing I would like the Mail app to display a
solitary i(lower case) as a typo. It would then be possible,
hopefully,
to click on it and change it to a I(upper case). Can this be done?

Unfortunately that lower case i is a word in the dictionary that is used
for checking spelling, the definition being ....


i [symbol ( i ) Mathematics] the imaginary quantity equal to the square
root of minus one. Compare with j.


The spelling dictionary doesn't have definitions, just spellings.

And you should now be aware that the dictionary is an integrated part of
the
Mac OS ... a fact that Edwin refused to admit.

Only for fairly strange definitions of "integrated" and "part of." I
don't know who Edwin is (although I might suspect it's someone I recall
from unintentionally getting involved in threads cross-posted to
csm.advocacy years ago) but I wouldn't "admit" that the dictionary is an
integrated part of OS X either. It's not, no more than Finder is.
(Actually, somewhat less so.)

What I think he meant was that it's a service or framework provided by
the system, and used by most applications that offer spelling correction
or other dictionary-related features. I'm not sure what the relevance
of this is to the discussion, unless the OP wanted things to work
differently in Mail than other apps.

Entourage has lots of typo correction features, which I suspect are also
in Word, including correction of common case mistakes (e.g. two
uppercase letters at the beginning of a word because you don't release
the shift key as quickly as necessary), and it will correct "i" to "I"
(I guess they figured most people talk about themselves more often than
imaginary numbers). Sometimes this is annoying if you work in an
industry with lots of two-letter acronyms, although it has a list of
exceptions (so mathematicians would probably add the "i" exception).

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