sarrel@dory.cis.ohio-state.edu (Marc Sarrel) (06/27/89)
Has anayoe else had problems with the spelling checker going off into la la land? I have a large document (five chapters, preface, TOC, ~20 sidebars, ~5 pictures, >50 references in bibliography, total of 89 pages and almost 16K words) and when I try to spell check the entire document, the checker has an annoying tendancy to sit and spin for a long time (up to 45 minutes before I had to reboot). It's happened quite often and has caused me to waste several hours. Any ideas? Is there a way to stop the spell checking without rebooting if it looks like the thing is hung? There was one point where the checker kept getting stuck on the same word. Is that significant? advTHANKSance, marc -=- "Master, why is the letter 'i' the symbol for current?" "Because there is no letter 'i' in the word 'current'." "Master, why do we use the letter 'j' for sqrt(-1)?" "Because we use the letter 'i' for current." Whereupon the Master struck the Disciple, and the Disciple became enlightened.