1.4.5.9

[quirrc]

The latest release of the client has auto spellchecker which automatically highlights misspelled words like in MS Word. Right click on underlined word for a list of suggestions or to add it to dictionary. Currently it works only in WYSIWYG editing mode and should be explicitly turned on in Options. IE 5.5 or above should be installed on your

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[aussieintn]

Hmmmm... the download for Windows 2k seems to act very strangely. I have Windows XP. The download opened a cmd.exe window with the cursor jumping around at random and causing my printer to feed pages through continuously.

[eclips1st]

I always meant to ask: What is the differentce between html and WYSIWYG? What are some differences I should see between one and the other?

[miriamele]

WYSIWYG = What you see is what you get.

When you work in WYSIWYG if you change the font it will appear exactly as it does on LJ. If you change it around in HTML then you will see things like < b> and .. the actual html.

[eclips1st]

oh, that's why it seemed so familiar!
thanks!

[miriamele]

Yup : )

Like your icon, btw - I saw someone make that on the Calvin and Hobbes feed. Good stuff : )

Off--backups

[emilysworld]

Do you have any plans to build a facility to back-up/download journal entries for this client? The LJ method stinks. Thanks!

Re: Off--backups

[mhw]

But there are already really good tools for doing that, such as LJArchive and the LiveJournal Backup / Search Utility, why overload a client with them?

Re: Off--backups

[quirrc]

it was already overloaded with them

Re: Off--backups

[emilysworld]

Thank you. I had not known of these. A client seemed like the logical place.

WYSIWYG mode

[caoin]

I have to say I really hate what WYSIWYG mode does to HTML. Since I work in HTML mode I have everything laid out in a way that makes it easy to edit and see the structure; I have an extra return between paras for example. Switching to WYSIWYG mode and back removes all this and changes all tag names and style properties to upper case. UPPER CASE LETTERS ARE VERY TIRING TO READ.

No doubt you have better things to do, but is there any chance this could be changed? I can do without spelling highlighting, but it would be nice if you could change modes without changing everything.

Re: WYSIWYG mode

[miriamele]

I agree. It'd be nice to not have everything switched about but I hadn't thought to mention it. Anyway... yeah, just following your bandwagon in hopes the more the merrier brings happy changes we can all be thankful for : )

[purple_estrella]

What did i do wrong? My spelling highlighting thingy doesn't work?

[quirrc]

You should activate internal spellchecker and specify dictionaries

[purple_estrella]

I DLed a dictionary and when i hit spellcheck it works but it doesn't highlight them.

[quirrc]

you should activate auto spellchecker in options. To manually highlight press Ctrl+F7