[OS X TeX] Personal dictionaris in CocoAspell

[Don Green Dragon]

Hi Herb, 

On 22Aug2014, at 6:44 PM, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com> wrote:

> <<snip>>

>> In view of the fact that you are familiar with Excalibur, I hope you will explain a couple of points. 
>> 
>> As Excalibur has been referred to as ``an external spellchecker’’ I conclude that you apply it to a LaTeX source file, say Example.tex, by opening Excalibur and telling it to check Example.tex. Correct?
>> 
>> Say Excalibur finds an error which you agree with and you tell it to make the correction, then the content  of Example.tex is changed. Can those changes be made when  TeXShop has already opened Example.tex or does one have to quite TeXShop before applying Excalibur? At what point are the changes to Example.tex saved?
>> 
>> I’ve just installed CocoAspell but have not used TeXShop to check it out!
>> 
>> 
>> <<snip>>
>> 
>> don green dragon
>> fergdc at shaw.ca
> 
> Howdy,
> 
> The same source file can be open in TeXShop and spell checked in Excalibur at the same time. TeXShop will automatically  pick up any changes that were made in the source file when you Save the file in Excalibur (or Save the file when you Quit Excalibur). It's all Apple Magic!

Oh! That’s very encouraging. Thanks for the information.


don green dragon
fergdc at shaw.ca