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Subject:RE: Spell-checking documents with lots of code? From:John Posada <JPosada -at- book -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 10 Jul 2003 15:19:43 -0400
I create a Para Style called Code1. In the Designer, under Default Font, I
make that style Language None. That causes the spellcheck to skip over
anything with that tag.
John Posada
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Castro [mailto:thetechwriter -at- yahoo -dot- com]
> Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 3:16 PM
> To: TECHWR-L
> Subject: Spell-checking documents with lots of code?
>
>
>
> Okay, here's an issue I've been dodging for three years. I
> work on documents
> that have lots of code samples embedded in them. Code uses
> lots of variable
> names and such that do not exist in the FrameMaker dictionary
> (nor should
> they). This means that, if I *was* to spell-check the
>
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