[OS X TeX] Questions on TeXShop

[Herbert Schulz]

On Mar 28, 2014, at 11:19 AM, Holger Schulz <qdl at gmx.net> wrote:

> Dear Richard,
> 
> thanks a lot.
> 
> Am 2014-03-22 um 16:02 schrieb Richard Koch <koch at math.uoregon.edu>:
>> 
>> The solution for spelling is definitely CocoAspell. It comes with a large
>> number of dictionaries.
> 
> [...]
> 
> 
>> 
>> Note that CocoAspell is an extension of Apple's spelling system, as provided
>> by Apple. There isn't separate code in TeXShop to spell check; Apple's system
>> code spell checks. It just uses a dictionary set up to handle Latex.
> 
> It seems, I got that running. But it still doesn't work for transscripted German umlaute like >>gr"un<< for >>grün<<. 
> 
> 
> 
>> b)  The bolder Monico text is a feature of recent Apple systems. It was controversial
>> at the time, and there is a fix which most users may have forgotten.
> 
> OK.
> 
> hs

Howdy,

is there some reason you're not using an encoding, e.g., Latin9 or UTF-8 Unicode, that allows you to simply embed accented characters in the document? I'm still not sure that Spell Checking will work properly and ü sure looks better than using "u, etc.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)