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

  • From: "Sarah Van Oosterwijck" <curiousentity@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 23:15:38 -0500

Sigh. Unfortunately no it doesn't notice any problem with words stuck together with a period. That used to be different. I guess we get some improvements and some unimprovements. I forgot to test the same thing with quotes. The result of such messes is not so bad when reading with speech, which is why I don't notice the problems when proofreading with speech, but when translated in to braille it can make a big mess. I suppose it helps with web addresses and explains why the feature to add suffixes to the ignore list can be at all effective.

Sarah Van Oosterwijck
Assistive Technology Trainer
http://home.earthlink.net/~netentity

----- Original Message ----- From: "Gary Petraccaro" <garyp130@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 10:02 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Kurzweil ranked spelling bug report


Yep.  Did that here, too.
Ouch.
Btw, what about two words with a period in the middle?
Does it catch those on your system?

----- Original Message ----- From: Sarah Van Oosterwijck
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Stephen Baum
Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 6:07 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Kurzweil ranked spelling bug report


 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
 Assistive Technology Trainer
 http://home.earthlink.net/~netentity

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