I searched the boards pretty thoroughly, so if I am repeating this I am very sorry. I saw reports on other Spelling Check bugs, but didn’t see anyone say anything about the “Learned” words.
I am writing a fantasy novel for NaNoWriMo, so there are words I use that aren’t pre-loaded into the dictionary. As they popped up I told Spelling to learn them. Which worked fine in that session, but when I closed and opened the project back up later, all learned words seem to have been forgotten. Not a big deal, but thought it should get logged as a bug for in future.
I’m having this same thing happen to me. It’s especially annoying for names, and also because for some reason the dictionary doesn’t recognize contractions? (weren’t, would underline the weren, didn’t automatically changes to did’t, doesn’t, underlines the does…)
I know doing NaNo i shouldn’t be using contractions, it would boost my word count! But i do use contractions, so this can be annoying
PS: I MAY not have the LATEST update on here, if this has been fixed (or previously logged) ignore me I’m going to download the fix today or tomorrow when it comes out
The contractions problem has been noted pretty well. There’s a problem with smart quotes in that Scrivener seems to hate them quite a bit. People have found that turning off smart quotes by going to Edit → Options → Auto-Correction and unchecking the “Use smart quotes” box eliminates the contractions issue for now until Lee et al can fix it. I can’t really speak for the forgetting learned words issue, though, as I’ve had no trouble with that.
You would only notice this if you were adding a lot of words into the spell check. I have character names that the spell check keeps flagging, so I hit “Learn” and it stopped underlining them. Unfortunately upon restart it just doesn’t keep any of the learned words in the dictionary and reverts to the original dictionary. I also can’t find the dictionary file to modify it myself…
