Comments on: AutoCAD 2009 - Automatic spell checker http://www.blog.cadnauseam.com/2008/04/11/autocad-2009-automatic-spell-checker/ A strange mix of AutoCAD, music, image manipulation and video Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:16:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Engr.Shamim http://www.blog.cadnauseam.com/2008/04/11/autocad-2009-automatic-spell-checker/#comment-305 Engr.Shamim Fri, 16 May 2008 14:58:02 +0000 http://www.blog.cadnauseam.com/?p=79#comment-305 It is very good for works. It is very good for works.

]]> By: ralphg http://www.blog.cadnauseam.com/2008/04/11/autocad-2009-automatic-spell-checker/#comment-221 ralphg Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:40:54 +0000 http://www.blog.cadnauseam.com/?p=79#comment-221 Spell checkers are not spell checkers; they are word recognizers. If the word appears in a list of words, then it is valid -- context be darned. As a professional writer, it frustrates me greatly how gushing-with-billions-in-R&D companies like Microsoft are incapable of advancing spell and grammar checking beyond what my DOS copy of WordPerfect and Grammatik did 20 years ago. But, I must say that real-time spell checking is wonderful, even if it is a 10-year-old feature in other words-oriented software. Spell checkers are not spell checkers; they are word recognizers. If the word appears in a list of words, then it is valid — context be darned.

As a professional writer, it frustrates me greatly how gushing-with-billions-in-R&D companies like Microsoft are incapable of advancing spell and grammar checking beyond what my DOS copy of WordPerfect and Grammatik did 20 years ago.

But, I must say that real-time spell checking is wonderful, even if it is a 10-year-old feature in other words-oriented software.

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