Capitalize i's?

cavalier07 · Post by **cavalier07** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 6:07 am

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'

m2e · Post by **m2e** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 7:36 am

I think your question is answered in this post:
http://forums.cocoaforge.com/viewtopic. ... highlight=

cavalier07 · Post by **cavalier07** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 6:17 pm

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.

Macskeeball · Post by **Macskeeball** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 6:54 pm

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.

cavalier07 · Post by **cavalier07** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 8:03 pm

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?

Post by **bgannin** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 8:11 pm

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

FredAkbar · Post by **FredAkbar** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 8:24 pm

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.

Tipo 61 · Post by **Tipo 61** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 8:33 pm

/me shudders at Microsoft-ish stuff

yelly · Post by **yelly** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 12:15 pm

iWork has auto-correct as-well...

Post by **bgannin** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 12:33 pm

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)

Tipo 61 · Post by **Tipo 61** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 12:48 pm

yelly wrote:iWork has auto-correct as-well...

My copy of iWork doesn't have it...

Post by **bgannin** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 12:57 pm

It was added in iWork '06.

twopeak · Post by **twopeak** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 4:41 pm

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...

cavalier07 · Post by **cavalier07** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 4:56 pm

Ok, well, what if I don't have iWork?

Post by **bgannin** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 4:58 pm

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.