[Biblical-languages] Unicode proofing tools in
Word/Office XP
Brent Hudson
abrenthudson at yahoo.ca
Mon Apr 28 14:37:55 EDT 2003
Change the language "Greek" to "No proofing". This will stop spell check on Greek language and continue the proofing tools on English etc.
Brent Hudson
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On 4/28/2003 at 12:28 PM biblang at ntresources.com wrote:
Now that the list is back up, here's a problem I've been wanting to ask about for some time.
Has anyone else had problems using the hyphenation or proofing tools in Word XP (running on Win XP Pro) with Unicode text outside the basic Latin ranges? Whenever I try to hyphenate a document, Word chokes on the first word from Greek/Greek Extended range. If one selects a block of text without those ranges, it works fine.
Word also can't handle automatic spellchecking of documents with large quantities of Unicode Greek text. I have a document that is presently at about 86 pages, comprised of about 80% Unicode Greek text. Somewhere around 70 pages I got an error message that tells me that there are too many spelling errors and that Word can no longer handle the spelling. This is probably just an inherent limit the way Word is programmed, and not Unicode specific, but the lack of proofing tool ability and (my) lack of koine spelling dictionaries overrides what might otherwise have been a reasonable limit for English text. Any workarounds or solutions here?
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Baptist Bible Seminary, Clarks Summit, PA,USA
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Email: <rdecker> at <NTResources.com>
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