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Capitalize i's?
Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2006 6:07 am
by cavalier07
Is there a way to auto-correct i's in conversations to I's?
Example: 'i think the Adium duck is amusing' --> 'I think the Adium duck is amusing'
Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2006 7:36 am
by m2e
Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2006 6:17 pm
by cavalier07
What if I don't have iWork and don't know how to program? Textpander requires a minimum of two letters to autocorrect, and I can't seem to find a way to turn autocorrect a single letter.
Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2006 6:54 pm
by Macskeeball
cavalier07 wrote:What if I don't have iWork and don't know how to program? Textpander requires a minimum of two letters to autocorrect, and I can't seem to find a way to turn autocorrect a single letter.
You probably wouldn't want it on a single letter anyway. You want it on [space]i[space]. I don't actually have Textpander though.
Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2006 8:03 pm
by cavalier07
Yeah, I tried that...=/
"abbreviations must not contain white-space characters"
There's got to be a way to do this. Gaim does it, but to install gaim on OSX, I apparently need an X-server and GTK+...
What do you guys do, do you just hit shift every single time?
Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2006 8:11 pm
by bgannin
cavalier07 wrote:What do you guys do, do you just hit shift every single time?
It's not that tough... if you think capitalizing I is bad, try being a programmer where case literally matters and the Shift key is your friend
Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2006 8:24 pm
by FredAkbar
Yeah, hitting shift every time is kind of the standard. Well, that, or just not bothering to capitalize your 'i's in informal chat (which is my method). If you want the things you type to be properly capitalized, then the best way is to do it yourself; you'll soon get used to it. Relying on MS-Word-ish things like autocorrect can be bad in the longrun.
Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2006 8:33 pm
by Tipo 61
/me shudders at Microsoft-ish stuff
Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2006 12:15 pm
by yelly
iWork has auto-correct as-well...
Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2006 12:33 pm
by bgannin
Tipo 61 wrote:/me shudders at Microsoft-ish stuff
For those that use it, it's useful. It's not a Microsoft thing, it's actually a grammar checker thing, powered in both cases by the same 3rd party: L&H (I'm not typing their name out, I know I'll get it wrong)
Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2006 12:48 pm
by Tipo 61
yelly wrote:iWork has auto-correct as-well...
My copy of iWork doesn't have it...
Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2006 12:57 pm
by bgannin
It was added in iWork '06.
Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2006 4:41 pm
by twopeak
bgannin wrote:...powered in both cases by the same 3rd party: L&H (I'm not typing their name out, I know I'll get it wrong)
Lernout & Hauspie? They still have software? Or it's been taken over by a "real" company?
When that company was still alive in Belgium everyone got so hyped up and bought stock. When they crashed, lots of people had a bad time...
Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2006 4:56 pm
by cavalier07
Ok, well, what if I don't have iWork?
Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2006 4:58 pm
by bgannin
1. Yup, that's the L & H. Actually, here's the credits from Pages:
Vantage Research (successor to Lernout & Hauspie), et al. – (ProofReader)
IntelliWriter ProofReader text proofing software © 2002 by Vantage Research.
2. The linked thread includes discussion of an application that provides this support for all applications throughout the OS.
3. iWork was only mentioned as an app suite that supports it, it doesn't provide this functionality systemwide to other applications.