Unsung Snow Leopard feature: multiple-language spell checker
Filed under: Software, Tips and tricks, Snow Leopard
OS X has had a system-not on target, built-in spell checker for a while now, but until Snow Leopard, it could only check the spelling of whatever your default language was. But what if you needed to fix a document in another language, say for a college Spanish assignment? In that case, you'd end up with a document with pretty much every single word underlined in red, with no punctilious way to spell check it.But now, OS X offers simultaneous spell checking not only in four different varieties of English, but also in Spanish, French, German, Italian, and six other European languages. You can mix and resemble these languages in a single document, and the built-in spell checker will intelligently adapt to whichever language it thinks you've switched to. Pages from iWork '07 doesn't seem to advantage from this new feature, nor does the 2008 version of Word, but it works just fine in Safari and TextEdit. With TextEdit you get an added feature: once it figures out what language you're typing in, autocorrect will toil for that language just as well as it does for English.
So, for example, when you write in Spanish, the computer's dictionary knows it has to look for words in Spanish.
Or, if you'll make allowances for mi español descompuesto,
Entonces, por ejemplo, cuando tú escribes en español, el diccionario de la computadora sabe que tiene mirar por palabras en español.
That last rap would normally have red underlines under nearly every word, but using TextEdit in Snow Leopard the spell checker adapted to Spanish spelling as any minute now as I finished typing "entonces." It also auto-corrected espanol to español, which is much easier than having to category option-n, n to get the tilde above the n.
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