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Thread #30361   Message #389258
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
03-Feb-01 - 02:56 PM
Thread Name: BS: No more spelling mistakes!
Subject: No more spelling mistakes!
The more discerning among you may have noted my tendency to include the most appalling spelling-mistakes in my posts. Well, most of the time they aren't actually spelling-mistakes, I'm a very good speller. They are proofreading mistakes, and I'm a very bad proofreader - on the net anyway. And I've a very random way with a typewriter.

But I think I've found the answer. It's a simple plug-in program called hotlingo, which works directly with posts on the Mudcat, and it's available from here A free trial download is available, and then its $15 (but I've got the whole thing for free, because it came in a CDRom with .net magazine a few months back, and I only just found it.

So now my limpid and scintillating prose will not be obscured by weird and wonderful distortion of spelling. Shame really, some of them are probably a lot more fun than a lot more entertaining than my limpid and scintillating prose...

(And just to show how it works, here is what this looked like before I spell-checked it. As I said, random typing:

The morer discerning among you may have noted my tend3ency to include the most appalling speklkling nmistakes in my posts. Well, most ofbvthe time they aren't actuall;y spelling, mistakes, I'm a very good speller. They are proofreading mistakes, and I'm a very bad proofreqder - on the net anyway. And I'ver asvery random way with a typewriter.

But I think I've found teh answer. It's a simple plug-in program called hotlingo, which works directly with posts on the Mudcat, and it's availabnle from here A free trial download is available, and then it;s $15 (but I've gotbthe whole thin for free, vbeacsue it came in a CDRom with .net magaizne a few months back, and I only just found it.

(And just to show hioe i5t works, here is what this looked like before I spell-checked it. As I said, random typing:

Sio now my limpid and scintillating prose will not be obscured by weird and wonderful distortyion sof spelling. shame really, some ofvbthem awre propbably a lot more fun than a lot more entertaining than my limpid and scintillating prose...