I have just installed the new Windows beta on my Windows 7 machine and have noticed an immediate problem in the tutorial. I wasn’t able to find this reported anywhere so maybe only I’m seeing it.
There are multiple instances in the tutorial where it is highlighting parts of words or even parts of multiple words as being spelled incorrect. Oddly, once I modify the ‘misspelling’ in any way (such as add a space and then delete it) the underline goes away. I so far haven’t been able to replicate this with new writing, only with the tutorial and any imported texts (rtf documents).
Just FYI, I’m having this same problem with text typed in. Kinky mis-underlinings seem to occur specifically in sentences containing the ’ symbol.
So the sentence:
Its onl sentences withthe quote
Underlined all the mistakes correctly.
The sentence:
It’s onl sentences withthe quote
has red underlines like this:
It’s onl sentences withthe quote
This occured when the above two sentences were typed one after the other on the same line, separated only by a full-stop and space (as you would normal prose).
I tried out a few other variants and it seems that ’ is the thing that triggers the bug. Hope this helps.
I can confirm that it is the apostrophe character that causes this, and I’d also like to mention that if you type a contraction into Scrivener, the spell check recognizes it as more than one word.
I’m also seeing it treat the red squiggly line of poor spelling as formatting.
For example, it’s like when you’re typing, and you want to underline the next word so you turn on underline type the word, and turn underline off. Then you decide to insert a word after the underlined word, but if you aren’t careful the newly inserted word will also be underlined. When there is an unrecognized word at the end of a sentence, I have seen it carry along the red squiggle the same way it would carry along the underline in the situation mentioned above.
Even more interesting, if I delete characters from red squiggled words (or spaces from before the words), the letters in the word will move, but the red squiggly lines will not.
From what I can tell it looks like Scrivener considers the single curly quote (the slanted or curled apostrophe) to be some other form of punctuation, like a comma or something, so that it thinks that any contracted word is really two words run together. Any word with a curly quote in it gets tagged as misspelled.
However, the same word with a straight quote pasted into the text instead of a curly one does not get tagged as misspelled.
Don’t know if more has been discussed on this problem in another thread, but here’s some more information about what I find it doing in 1.5.7.0 for windows:
When I type something at the beginning of the paragraph and then use Ctrl+Shift to highlight what I’ve just written and then delete it, the spellchecker underline stays where it had shifted, even though the text moves back to take up the free space. So:
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It goes back to the proper place after any change is made to the paragraph.
