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From: gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Finder 7.0 suggestion
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Date: 13 Jul 90 16:23:00 GMT
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Nf-From: m.cs.uiuc.edu!gillies    Jul 13 11:23:00 1990


> It would be nice if System7 had a Spelling Manager with a standard
> dictionary and the ability to add specialized dictionaries
> (Engineering, Medical, etc.).

Better yet, system 7.0 needs a "word-stream" manager -- a program that
lets you pipe text through a processing program.  Especially:

(1) spelling checkers.
(2) grammar checkers.
(3) machine translation programs.

The piping should be sufficiently general that it does the right thing
with tables, PICTs, and equations.  I can't stand MS-Word, which tries
to spell-check variable name (x1, x2a2, ...) in my mathematical papers.

The program should also allow you to pipe a PICT through the manager.
Then we could
(1) spell-check pictures
(2) check for outrageous mistakes in pictures, such as
   (a) two points that differ by some small epsilon
	(the user would probably like to make them the same point)
   (b) objects smaller than a certain size (garbage)
   (c) invisible objects (completely obscured by others, or filled by nothing)
   (d) lines at non-standard angles.
   (e) etc. etc. etc. etc.