Question: How do I get Grammarian PRO X to work in OS X? Answer:Install Grammarian PRO X by dragging the Grammarian PRO X folder into your Applications Folder. Launch the Grammarian™ application. Grammarian™ will ask to install its Input Method Component. Choose okay to install it. Then, LOG OUT or RESTART. Once you have installed Grammarian PRO X and logged out or restarted in OS X:
1. Open System Preferences.
2. Select International from the System Preferences Panel.
3. In the International Panel, select the Input Menu Tab.
4. Scroll down the list of languages and place a checkmark next to Grammarian.
6. Close the International Preference Panel.
An American Flag (or British Flag, etc.) should now appear in the menu bar at the top of your screen.You can access Grammarian from the American Flag menu. Once you select it from the list, you will see a Checkmark and a Pencil in the menu bar at the top of your screen. To access the Grammarian menu, click and hold down on the Pencil in the menu bar.
Note: If the American Flag (or British Flag, etc.) does not display on the menu bar when you place a checkmark next to Grammarian, try placing a checkmark next to another language as well. Then remove this checkmark. One report that we received stated that MacOS X needed this nudge to get the American Flag to take.
Another shortcut trick is: "After you check the Grammarian
box and the "Show input menu in menu bar", hit apple, option, and space bar. This automatically puts
the pencil in the menu bar."
Question: Where do I enter my registration license serial number? Answer:After purchasing and receiving your license registration, bring the Grammarian PRO X application frontmost, and select Grammarian's Register item in the Options menu. Enter your name and serial number in the Registration dialog. Your serial number is your private property. Do not give it to others. We do ban and retire serial numbers.
Question: Will Grammarian PRO X still work when I turn off the "Show input menu in the menu bar" option in the International System Preferences Input Menu panel in Panther?
Answer:Yes. Grammarian PRO X still functions normally when the "Show input menu in the menu bar" option is off (shown below), and the Grammarian pencil menu will still be displayed on the menu bar. Actually, you can do this to conserve menu bar space.
Question: Why can't I get Interactive Checking to work? Answer: Is the Grammarian PRO X menu pencil red? If so, interactive checking is off. Set interactive Spelling, Grammar, AutoCorrect, AutoType, etc. from the Grammarian interactive checking submenu. The Grammarian pencil turns yellow for spelling, green for grammar, and yellowish-green for spelling and grammar. Grammarian remembers the settings for each application and automatically changes the settings when you switch from one application to another.
Question: Can I make my own user spelling dictionaries?
Answer: Yes. Create a regular document text file of file type: 'TEXT' in a text utility. Paste your words into the document and sort them. Try to make all the words lowercase if possible. Then, add this file with the "Add..." button on the Writing Rules Spelling Pane. This will convert the file into a dictionary, and it is now in the Spelling pane and Pencil menu Spelling menu. You'll need to switch the dictionary on to make it active. Some programs that save true 'TEXT' files are AppleWorks (when the Text format is selected), BBEdit, and Tex-Edit Plus. TextEdit files are of the type 'RTF' and will not work.
Question: Interactive Checking stopped working. How can I get it to work again? Answer: Yes, we get several reports on this every time that Apple releases a system update. The system updates either do not update all system files, change the system cache, or change the system level permissions. This affects other files as well.
If updating OSX 10.3.x caused this, the fix then is to update with the combo OSX updater. Grab the 10.3.x combo updater rather than the standard updater and update again over your existing installation. The file size is larger than the standard updater and includes all pristine OSX files. (http://www.info.apple.com/support/downloads.html)
Also, simply repairing permissions with Disk Utility (Applications/Utilities) has proven to be a successful fix for small Apple updates such QuickTime.
Question: I seem to be having problems with Grammarian PRO windows and sometimes get the spinning beach ball. Is there anything I can do? Answer:If the Grammarian preference file gets partially written or damaged, This could cause strange behavior. Quit Grammarian PRO X, find the Grammarian preferences file in the Users/Library/Preferences folder, and throw this file into the trash. The next time Grammarian runs, it'll build a new preference file.
Question: Where can I get multilingual spelling dictionaries, and how do I install them in Grammarian PRO X? Answer:Additional spelling dictionaries (Australian, British, Canadian, French, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, etc.) can be downloaded from the downloads page on our web site. Install these dictionaries with the Add... button in the Writing Rules Dialog Spelling pane.
Question: What do the grammar parse abbreviations represent in the reference portion of the check window in Grammarian PRO X? Answer:
MC - main clause
SC - subordinate clause
ADJP - adjectival phrase modifier clause
ADJC - adjectival clause
ADVM - adverbal phrase modifier clause
ADVC - adverb clause modifier
Question: What do the parts of speech abbreviations represent in the reference portion of the check window in Grammarian Pro X? Answer:
ndet - noun determiner
sndet - singular noun determiner
pndet - plural noun determiner
n - noun
pron - pronoun
nplur - noun plural
nsing - noun singular
(poss.) - possessive noun
obj - object
proper - proper noun
unit - numerical unit
human - person association
animal - animal association
- nan - animate noun association
- nin - inanimate noun association
inf - infinitive
prep - preposition
loc - locative preposition
dir - directional preposition
assc - associative preposition
art - article
adj - adjective
color - color
adv - adverb
manner - adverb of manner
deg - adverb of degree
cause - adverb of cause
place - adverb of place
time - adverb of time
Question: Where can I see a list of homophones that Grammarian PRO X checks? Answer:
access - excess
ad - add
add - ad
adopt - adept
advise - advice
affect - effect
all ways - always
altar - alter
annul - annual
anyone - any one
a while - awhile
bathe - bath
bee - be
blew - blue
breathe - breath
cant - can't
cell - sell
cite - site
commend - command
council - counsel
device - devise
devise - device
envelop - envelope
every one - everyone
form - from
forth - fourth
heal - heel
here - hear
its - it's
knew - new
lessen - lesson
lose - loose
maul - mall
meat - meet
meddle - medal
meet - meat
no body - nobody
our - hour
passed - past
peace - piece
pour - poor
pour - pore
quite - quiet
quit - quiet
read - red
resent - recent
right - write
rite - write
road - rode
sale - sail
sea - see
seem - seam
sight - cite
slay - sleigh
soar - sore
some day - someday
some one - someone
some time - sometime
steak - stake
steal - steel
than - then
their - they're
too - to - two
weather - whether
which - witch
wont - won't
your - you're
Question: Turning off all the spelling dictionaries and doing "Check All..." underlines all the words in red in the error view. Is this a bug? Answer:
No, this isn't a bug. Check All... selects all the text and then checks all the spelling and grammar of the text. Manually turning off all the spelling dictionaries does not turn off the spell checking function. However, turning off all the spelling dictionaries does turn these off as would be expected. Thus, all the words would be considered spelling errors. Use the Check Selection/Check Grammar... menu item to check only grammar if this is your intention.
Question: All Interactive functions stopped working, and the Grammarian pencil menu icon is blue. What can I do? Answer:
You can try this: quit Grammarian, then drag the Users/~/Library/Application Support/Grammarian folder to the desktop. Run the Grammarian application again to make Grammarian create a new Application Support/Grammarian folder. Then log out or restart (to clear the memory). Is everything working now?
The interactive preferences are stored in the file: Tool Params which is located in the Application Support/Grammarian folder. If this file cannot be read or written, then you'll get the blue pencil menu and the loss of interactive functionality. When Grammarian runs again, it knows to create a fresh Application Support/Grammarian folder.
Once everything is working normally, you can replace all the dictionary folders from the Grammarian folder that you placed on the desktop (quit the Grammarian application first). This will restore your settings. Do not replace the Tool Params file that was just created. This procedure is also a remedy for Grammarian Menu Keyboard Shortcuts that do not stick.
How do I get Grammarian PRO X to work in OS X? 
Question: How do I get Grammarian PRO X to work in OS X?
