* Spell checking solution?

[ColeValleyGirl]

For those of you who feel the lack of a spell checker in FH, you might look at http://www.tinyspell.com/ -- I've been trying it for a few days and am cautiously hopeful.

[Gowermick]

Helen,
If you are composing a longish note in FH, it may prove beneficial to write it in notepad first (other text editors are available) , then cut and paste into FH. Most editors have spellcheckers built in, and are available even when you are not on-line. Or, heaven forbid, you could have a physical dictionary handy!

[ColeValleyGirl]

It isn't that I don't know how to spell, it's the typoes that gte me everytime.

In case I need to bring out the nuclear option, I have to hand 4 English dictionaries (including the Shorter OED), 2 Welsh dictionaries, 3 English thesauri and a couple of style manuals. I can't justify the cost of the full OED, however much I lust after it.

Notepad has no native spell checking facilities, and in any case I prefer to simplify things as much as possible, so compose short notes, cause of death etc. 'in place' (either in FH or AS). tinySpell works well in my set-up (I disable it in all apps except FH and AS and Notepad at present, so it doesn't interfere with any native spell checkers in my browser or Office suite). It doesn't rely on an on-line dictionary, and you can download additional languages (I have British English and Welsh). It's also useful because I combine address and place in one field, so the auto-complete function doesn't reduce data entry errors as much as if I used address and place separately.

Plus, I have too many 'editors ' already -- Notepad (which I use as a simple scratch-pad for stuff I don't need to keep separately -- like working out a formatted citation); Scrivener for writing documents, like novels/short stories or a long proof statement (I'll save the proof statement as a PDF and attach it to the relevant fact); UltraEdit for programming; Scapple and OneNote for different types of note taking; and Word for anything else. I really don't want to add another simple text editor.

Of course, others may have different solutions, so this might be a good place to discuss them.

[Gowermick]

I agree about typo’s. I’m thinking about changing my cheapo keyboard for that very reason. The number of missed letters or missed capitals is getting silly. I’m getting particularly frustrated by it/me missing the capitalisation of forenames, it is either the keyboard itself or my co-ordination with the shift key is off, but no matter how careful I am, FH misses this particular capitalisation, and pedant that I am, I then have to waste time correcting it!

[ColeValleyGirl]

I type two-handed and very fast so sometimes one hand gets in before the other when it shouldn't do.

[Gowermick]

Well, does two fingers count (one on each hand)?

[DavidNewton]

I use Notepad++ which has significantly more facilities than Notepad and like FH has plug-ins to extend the features, spell checking being one such. It also includes syntax highlighting and folding for a variety of languages. On the rare occasions when I write a long plug-in I copy the text into Notepad++ to give me an overview of the structure of the plug-in. Another thing I like is that it maintains the open files between sessions so that you can continue from where you left off. And, of course, it is free.
A list of features here:
https://notepad-plus-plus.org/features/

David