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Subject:Mystery in Frame spellchecker From:Beth Kane <bethkane -at- TCISOLUTIONS -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 24 Aug 1999 10:46:17 -0700
Howdy from Tucson,
I'm editing a book I just got my hands on for the first time, and it
contains some command lines in Courier, e.g., Server Name\Main.
When I run the Spelling Checker, it displays the command lines in the
Misspelling? field with _double_ backslashes! I have never seen Spelling
Checker add characters that aren't really there. I tried viewing the command
in a different font to see if there are "really" double backslashes there.
Nope.
This doesn't really matter...now that I know I cannot trust spellchecker
when it comes to backslashes, I'll just ignore it. I just wondered if anyone
has ever seen such an inaccurate display in Frame's Spelling Checker, or
might have an explanation as to why this is happening.
