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Subject:Re: Mystery in Frame spellchecker From:"Campbell, Art" <artc -at- NORTHCHURCH -dot- NET> Date:Tue, 24 Aug 1999 13:46:31 -0400
The spell checker isn't finding duplicate characters, it's displaying a
control
character and the "real" character.
Frame uses the slash as a preface for special characters. For example, if
you're
searching a document for a tab stop, you'd put a \t in the find field, if
you
were searching for a paragraph end, you'd use \p, and so on. The \\ probably
isn't what's triggering the spell checker at all -- it's just showing you
the
correct character string as it appears in ASCII (in order to display or
print
the slash, which is ordinarily used as a control, FM requires \\, to remind
the
spell checker that in this case, it isn't a special character). The entire
control sequence is what's triggering the spell checker, as it should.
Nothing to worry about.
Art
Art Campbell
Technical Publications
Northchurch Communications
Five Corporate Drive
Andover, MA 01810
978 691-6344
-----Original Message-----
From: Beth Kane [mailto:bethkane -at- tcisolutions -dot- com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 1999 1:46 PM
To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
Subject: Mystery in Frame spellchecker
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. <snip>
