Re: Spell checking in Applescript
Re: Spell checking in Applescript
- Subject: Re: Spell checking in Applescript
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2007 12:27:31 -0800
- Thread-topic: Spell checking in Applescript
I am not aware of any application that manages to make the Mac OS's own
spellchecker scriptable, but it's possible that there may be some. If so,
you could transfer the words to that app and do it there.
But spellchecking *is* scriptable in Word. See the 'check spelling' command
in both the Microsoft Word Suite and the Text Suite. The Text Suite version
might be what you want if all you wanted was to check some text and find out
if it's OK or not, since you don't even have to insert the text anywhere.
But if you want to correct incorrect spelling, you'd insert the text in a
Word document and use the Microsoft Word Suite version with Autocorrect
options set to correct the spelling or present you with suggestions. In
Word, all of this, including even the Autocorrect options, are scriptable,
but complicated. If you trust automatic spelling corrections, you could even
script getting the text of the corrected range (text) and inserting it back
in Entourage. This could be quite an interesting exercise but, as I say,
quite complex. It might take you a bit of time to experiment with it and
find some workable solutions. But they are there. In addition to the Word
AppleScript Dictionary, make sure you get the Word AppleScript Reference
Guide at the MacTopia website (http://www.microsoft.com/mac/)
/Resources/Developer/AppleScript .
--
Paul Berkowitz
> From: Stephen Lanza <email@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2007 14:43:52 -0500
> To: <email@hidden>
> Subject: Spell checking in Applescript
>
> I am trying to write an applescript for Entourage that checks the spelling
> of words in the subject line of an email. A lot of spam has one or more
> words that are not legitimate words and I want to use a spell check to
> determine how many 'words' are not really words.
>
> I checked the dictionary in Entourage for a command to invoke the spell
> checker but couldn't find one.
>
> Is there a stand-alone extension to applescript that would spell check some
> text passed to it or is there some other way to spell check a text string?
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Stephen Lanza
> Software Complement
>
>
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