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- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 16:32:06 EST
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- From: Allan Needell <NASSH100@SIVM.BITNET>
- Subject: speller/em-dash revisited
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- From: Allan Needell
-
- Many may recall, in the days of NB3.1, the resurfacing of a wonderfully useful
- description by Tony Woolsey of how to add to the default separators recognized
- by the program so as to prevent the spell checker from flagging properly
- spelled words separated by an em-dash.
-
- Having just fixed my personal.spl file and getting it to work in NB4, I
- decided to experiment and copy the separator tables I had inserted into the
- NB3.1 default.set file into nbcustom.set in NB4. As of now I can report
- complete success. Even words separated by the NB4 "ALT-white/minus"
- "ALT-white/minus-white/minus" etc. characters are spell checked separately.
-
- I have three questions: Does anyone know of any reason not to do this?
-
- Does anyone know of any separator characters that should either be added or
- deleted from the version used in NB3.1 (I simply added ascii 196 to the table
- to Tony's standard table to take care of em dashes)
-
- Has anyone experimented very much with the nb4 en and em dashes to the point
- of printing them with an HPIII. Can you tell me exactly what ALT-white/minus
- gives you. (For that matter, an account of experience with the so-called smart
- quotes would be of interest as well).
-
- Thanks.
-
- Allan Needell
- National Air & Space Museum
- Smithsonian Institution
- Washington, DC 20560 (BITNET: NASSH100@SIVM)
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