Product Specifications:
1. Universal
SPELLING, GRAMMAR, DICTIONARY, THESAURUS,
AUTOCORRECT, and AUTOTYPE in every OSX application.
2. Universal interactive (check-as-you-type) with auto-show spelling
and grammar and universal batch spelling and grammar checking.
3. Smart SPELLING checking uses Thematics technology conjointly
with the grammar parse engine for error checking and suggestions,
over 220,000 words internal metaphonic spelling dictionary, checks
homophone spelling in context (a first) and uses phonetic, typographic,
and variant phrases for suggestions, provides matching in-context
parts-of-speech suggestions. Simultaneous multilingual
spell check with additional free language dictionaries.
4. GRAMMAR - checks phrase usage, grammar, and punctuation
with the most comprehensive commercial grammar parsing engine ever
developed.
Check for dangling modifiers, subject verb agreement, squinting
modifiers, comma splices, homophones, and more. Core engine uses
Thematics technology.
5. DICTIONARY/THESAURUS - integrated dictionary/thesaurus
lookup to grammar/spell document checking with over 400,000 word
definitions, hyphenation, parts of speech with noun
plurals and verb conjugation forms. The Dictionary and Thesaurus
become an integrated assistant for document spelling and grammar
checking.
6. AUTOCORRECT - over 30,000 words, interactive AutoCorrect
automatically corrects spelling mistakes as you type. AutoCorrect
Two initial capital letters, proper nouns, smart quotes, and hyphens
to em and en dashes.
7. Styled AUTOTYPE - interactive styled-text AutoType feature automatically
types your commonly used phrases with font styles, colors,
and date/time stamps.
8. Educational reference assistant: shows error explanation, parts
of speech, linear sentence diagraming, or word frequency.
9. View and select any error in a spelling/grammar document check
. A document error view drawer provides underlined in-context errors
so that you can click on any error to correct it.
10. Interactive notification sounds for spelling, grammar, autocorrect,
and autotype. Interactive windows autofade™ after a predetermined
count of words.
10. Preferences setup for keyboard shortcuts, Writing Rules location,
interactive sounds, window, and dock settings.
12. Statistics analysis - readability, reading ease,
human interest ratings..
13. Universal menu with separate on-the-fly switchable Current
Writing Style, Spelling dictionaries, and interactive application
preference settings.
14. Lockable authentication settings for all Writing Rules and
Preference settings for the classroom setting.
15. Features are available from the OSX Dock.
16. Option of Brushed-metal interface
windows or standard windows.
17. Option to eliminate the Grammarian Dock
menu and transform Grammarian PRO X into a background application.
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(MacOSX 10.5.x view)
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Figure 1.
Spelling and Grammar Check with Dictionary/Thesaurus
Lookup Assistant
Click
on any suspect error in the document error view drawer
(left). Make the changes and corrections (center). Look
up words and definitions in the Dictionary/Thesaurus
assistant drawer (right). This powerful design makes
proofreading fun! Learn as you work. |
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Correcting
spelling mistakes is easy. The autoshow window
pops up and offers spelling suggestions. And,
the see-through window doesn't get in your
way while you are typing because it autofades™ after
a predetermined count of words.
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Figure 2.
Interactive Spelling Check (MacOSX 10.5.x view)
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Figure 3.
Interactive Grammar Check (MacOSX 10.5.x view)
Grammarian
makes all the grammar corrections to the sentence before
entering the sentence into your document. This allows
you to proofread as you make changes.
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Grammarian Writing
Rules--Grammar pane (Figure 4. left) and Spelling
pane (Figure 5. right) (MacOSX
105.x view)
Customize
Grammarian's rules to suit your tastes. The Grammar
pane sets the Grammar Rules of the Rule Group and Writing
Style, and the Spelling Pane sets the Spelling Rules.
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Grammarian
Writing Rules--AutoCorrect pane (Figure
6. left) and AutoType pane (Figure
7. right) (MacOSX
10.5.x view)
The
AutoCorrect pane allows customization of interactive
automatic corrections. The Autotype pane allows
the editing of AutoType shorthands.
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Figure
8. Grammarian Preferences,
Dock & Menu Pane (MacOSX
10.5.x view)
Easily
eliminate the Grammarian dock icon and the
Grammarian menu bar by changing this preference
from the Grammarian Preferences Dock pane.
Figure
9. Grammarian Preferences,
Window Features Pane (MacOSX
10.5.x view)
Change
the preference settings for interactive and
document check selection windows. If you prefer standard
Aqua windows instead of Brushed-metal windows,
you can change it here.
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Figure
10. Grammarian Dictionary/Thesaurus
Lookup (MacOSX
10.5.x view)
Quickly
look up and replace words from your document. Dictionary
definitions and thesaurus entries are shown with
grammatical inflections. Click on the blue underline
link to look up an associated word. Click Replace
to transfer the replacement word into your document.
You can also copy a definition from the window to
paste into your document.
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Figure 11. Grammarian Document Statistics
Show
document readability, reading ease, human interest ratings.
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Grammarian PRO X frequently
asked questions
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