Spell Catcher X 10.3.3 - Global spell checking utility. (Shareware)

Spell Catcher X is the powerful writing tool preferred by educators, students, writers, bloggers - anyone who writes on their Macintosh. It's the all-in-one writing solution for those who need standardized custom dictionaries for use in all their applications, those that write in multiple languages, and anyone that simply wants to be a faster, more effective writer. Use it in Mac OS X applications such as email, web browsers, instant messaging, Microsoft Word and other word processors, graphics programs such as Adobe Photoshop, video and movie programs, databases, spreadsheets and more!

• Available-everywhere as-you-type (interactive) and after-you've-typed-it (batch) spell checking. Fully integrated with the standard Mac OS X Spelling Panel.
• Comprehensive spelling dictionaries for 14 different languages, with thesaurus look ups in 10 languages. Nine spelling languages and 10 thesaurus databases are included for free!
• Powerful, fast, searchable, state-of-the-art shorthand expansions. Date and time shorthands that are infinitely configurable.
• Two different English-language thesaurus databases available - the "right word" is just a few keystrokes away.
• U.S. English dictionary with definitions.
• If you can't find it in the thesaurus or dictionary definitions, you'll find it on the Internet using Spell Catcher's integrated dictionary server support.
• Spell Catcher X's completion feature finishes what you're typing for you. Not just dictionary words are offered as completions, but shorthands, your personal learned words, thesaurus synonyms, and (saving the best for last), names, email addresses, phone numbers and address information from your Address Book! With Spell Catcher X's Address Book completions, your Address Book is truly available everywhere.
• Spell Catcher X's Ghostwriter offers you "Safety When You Haven't Saved." Ghostwriter saves what you type while you type it, making it possible to recover your work after a crash or other similar disaster. Because it's built on top of an interactive writing tool, Ghostwriter keeps an incredibly accurate, complete, and easy-to-recover account of what you've written.
• Customizable text manipulation tools let you "Modify Selections" of text in many different ways. Clean up badly-formatted email messages, strip excess white space and other characters, make paragraphs out of text with returns at the end of every line. Create your own macros from the basic functions that are included with Spell Catcher X.
• Tailor the way Spell Catcher works to the way you and the applications you use work. Almost every preference can be set on a per-application basis.

• New input method application, for compatibility with both 64-bit and 32-bit applications.
• New input method installation and update procedure and user interface.

• German localization, courtesy of Norbert Lindenthal.
• Autosaving of reference documents. A new preference in the References pane allows you to specify how often modified reference documents should be automatically saved. Note that references are only autosaved when not open for editing, and have been modified using a “Learn”, “Shorthand”, “Forget” or other similar command. If “Never” is selected, changes to reference documents will only be saved when Spell Catcher is Quit, or manually by choosing File > Save All.
• New speech alerts feature (Spell Catcher Preferences, Alerts pane, Speech tab). A new “Insert” pop-up menu for inserting the (spoken) error, along with other simple embedded speech commands. Manually entering speech commands into the text to be spoken has always worked, but there was no way to speak the actual error itself.
• New preference (Spell Catcher Preferences, Language pane, “Dock Icon:”) “Indicate whether interactive checking is on or off”. When Spell Catcher is the active input source, Spell Catcher’s Dock icon shows a checkmark instead of its application icon; yellow when interactive checking is on, red if it’s off.
• Added ability to reset Universal preferences to their out-of-the-box defaults.
• Added Filter command to the Edit > Find menu to move the focus to the window’s search field. This applies to the Find in References, Look Up, and Shorthand Glossary document windows.
• Added import of TypeIt4Me version 4.x files.
• Added import of TextExpander files.
• Added XML Property List export and import of Learned Words and Omitted Words files. This is in preparation for improved cross-platform sharing of references with the new version of Spell Catcher Plus we’re working on.

• Updated to version 11.2.9.1 of the Proximity Linguistic System (PLS). In addition to code improvements, PLS 11.2.9.1 includes the following new and updated spelling databases:
  
  • U.S. English:
    
    • Updated U.S. English Main Spellings (both “lex” and “hsp” databases).
    • Additions to U.S. English Computer Terms.
  • German: Updated German Main Spellings (both “lex” and “hsp” databases), German 1901 Main Spellings (“lex”), and German 1996 Main Spellings (“lex”).

    PLS 11.2.9.1 improves German compounding rules, and now tailors the behavior according to the specific German reform year. For 1901 German, compounding rejects words with triple-consonant, such as Schmuckblatttelegramm, Falllinie, Spannbetttuch. It accepts the double-consonant forms: Schmuckblattelegramm, Fallinie, Spannbettuch.

  • Spanish: Updated Spanish Main Spellings (both “lex” and “hsp” databases).
  • Swedish: Updated Swedish Main Spellings (both “lex” and “hsp” databases).
  • Dutch: Updated Dutch Main Spellings (both “lex” and “hsp” databases), and Dutch 1995 Main Spellings (“lex”).
  • Portuguese: Updated Portuguese Main Spellings (both “lex” and “hsp” databases).
  • Brazilian Portuguese: Updated Brazilian Portuguese Main Spellings (both “lex” and “hsp” databases).
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Updated Norwegian Bokmål Main Spellings (both “lex” and “hsp” databases).
  
  To update your language plug-ins, in the Spell Catcher application, choose Spell Catcher > Get Updates and Languages, or Help > Spell Catcher Languages Page. Languages are also available for download on our website: http://www.rainmakerinc.com/products/languages/.
• Changes to DirectCorrect so that it is more tolerant of various “quirks” in iWork ’09 applications. Numerous fixes and additions have been made in iWork ’09, enough to support DirectCorrect reasonably well. iWork ’08 applications had bugs that made DirectCorrect mostly unusable.
• Much improved performance when importing large amounts of text into Learned Words, Compiled Learned Words, and Omitted Words documents via Paste or Drag and Drop.
• Numerous code modernizations and improvements related to document handling and error reporting.
• Other performance improvements, mostly related to application launch time and DirectCorrect.
• Spotlight plugin now built as 32/64 bit universal for compatibility with future versions of Mac OS X.
• Updated HTML formatting of the French Help Book to that of the English Help Book, primarily to remove HTML frames.
• Built with the Xcode 3.2.1.

• Numerous improvements to the way that the various pop-up windows are positioned during interactive checking. This includes the pop-up suggestions list, completions, and suggestions shown when a DirectCorrect-highlighted error is clicked. Spell Catcher tries its best to ensure that the entire pop-up window is visible, and that it doesn’t obscure the error or word being completed in the document. Previously, when an entire pop-up window didn’t fit either above or below the error, it would often appear positioned above the error, and only partially visible. The new behavior positions the window to the left or right of the error, offset so as not to obscure it, and ensure that the window is entirely visible.
• Ensure that Ghostwriter files are visible in the Finder by changing any leading period (.) to an underscore (_). This makes sure you can easily locate changes recorded by Ghostwriter when editing “special” files like “.htaccess”, “.bash_profile”, “.inputrc”, etc.
• Importing text into Learned Words, Compiled Learned Words, and Omitted Words documents (via Paste or Drag and Drop) now looks for lines containing two words separated by a single space, and adds them as a single word pair. This is useful when importing more structured textual word lists, where (for example) the basic format is one word or word pair per line.
• Modify Selection commands that return changed text can now be used on words selected in Learned Words, Compiled Learned Words, and Omitted Words documents. For instance, the Strip Characters command can be used to (say) strip trailing periods from all the selected entries in a Learned Words document.
• Spell Catcher is more stringent about what is considered a path or file name (for the Ignore file names preference in the Spelling pane, Checking tab).
• The calculated values in the Statistics and Word Count windows can now be selected and copied to the clipboard.
• Assorted UI changes where the current behavior was just “bothering me”. One example: improved calculation of the left side/right side ratios/maximums for the splitter in the Check Selection window.

• Worked around a bug in Mac OS X that could cause Scripting Additions to fail to load. For example, Default Folder X now loads properly in the Spell Catcher application.
• Fixed a number of problems with Spell Catcher’s AppleScript support.
• Fixed behavior when the “Speak” (small microphone) button was toggled on in the Check Selection, Check Word and Suggest Spelling windows. This was broken in Spell Catcher X 10.3, the most noticeable symptom was excessive speaking of error words when turned on in the Suggest Spelling window.
• Fixed a problem entering values in the Custom Date/Time Offset sheet (in Shorthand Glossary document windows).
• On Mac OS X 10.4.x (Tiger), pressing the return/enter key in the Modify Selection window to Proceed would cause the Spell Catcher application to crash.
• Ghostwriter folders containing only invisible files are now properly deleted, according to your Ghostwriter preferences. Previously, the only invisible files that Ghostwriter considered OK to delete were Finder “.DS_Store” files. Now, invisible files with the extension “.txt” are also considered safe to delete.
• Fixed a problem where refreshing a license key could incorrectly report that no changes were made to that license.
• Fixed keyboard navigation for back/forward arrows in the Check Selection and Look Up windows (command-[ and command-]).
• Application switches when Spell Catcher wasn’t the active input source didn’t always update the language or keyboard layout shown in the Dock icon.
• Some windows had a smaller-than-intended maximum size restriction, due to a (rare, strange?) bug in Interface Builder. A little bit of voodoo to set and reset the window’s maximum size in IB fixed this.
• Fixed a few problems with editing Modify Selection Macros.
• Alert sounds larger than 256K would not always play correctly two or more consecutive times.
• A few relatively obscure bugs fixed.