[bksvol-discuss] Re: Kurzweil ranked spelling bug report

Cool - thinks I'm in the middle of putting together the first patch for version 10, I'll fix this too. The problem is pretty straightforward. You do have, in your corrections file, a correction that will convert a stand-alone exclamation point to a stand-alone capital "I". That makes a certain amount of sense. However, when a correction is made that effects everything but the exclamation point at the end of a word, we start looking for the next correction at that exclamation point, and incorrectly assume it is standing alone.

It will be fixed in the first patch.

Stephen

At 06:07 PM 10/6/2005, you wrote:
I was just doing a little testing of ranked spelling in Kurzweil version 10. I wanted to see if it would incorrectly count words separated with a long dash or double dashes as a single incorrectly spelled word. I think that may no longer be a problem, but I discovered another more serious problem.

I wrote some test sentences and some of them ended in a misspelled word and an exclamation mark. when I ran ranked spelling the misspelled word was found. I selected the correct spelling from the list and hit alt-A for replace all. I then tabbed to apply and hit enter. The misspellings were then recalculated. I was surprised to notice that the percentage did not go up, so I examined the misspellings listed again. I found my corrected words in the list with a capital I following them instead of the exclamation mark that had been there. I corrected the word again and then exited the dialog with okay. the sentences were now okay. I just can't imagine why this would happen. I retested several times with different words and got the same result each time. Could others experiment as well to clarify the extent of the problem?

By the way, I love the message you get if you run ranked spelling and the document does not have any misspellings.

Sarah Van Oosterwijck
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