apology to the list

apology to the list

[Charles Hallenbeck]

I see my last message came around twice; sorry for that. Somehow
I ended up replying to the list with a CC to the list.

While we are bitching about things, my own pet peeve is email
messages full of typos and spellos. You folks with eyes usually
compensate  automatically for such nonsense, but those of us who
rely on speech synthesizers are cursed (blessed?) with a device
that tells us exactly what it sees. I have recently implemented a
short script which is invoked as an alternate editor by pine
instead of its regular composer. That script first calls a real
editor ("nano" in my case) and then it calls "ispell" against the
same file. I automatically have to spell check my compositions
before pine will let me send them. If anybody wants more details
(hint hint, KW!) I will be glad to supply them.

This list is getting to be a pain in the ass to read lately, but
I presume the mood will change when the phase of the moon changes
or something.

Chuck


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Re: apology to the list

[William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-777-8123]

Very strange.  When I started my reply to this message, Pine wanted to 
send two copies also.  Must be something in the headers.  I agree with 
you, Chuck as well as Brian.  But I've just gotta ask.  Do we have to have 
the ASCII art that recently started appearing at the bottom of your 
messages?  What's it supposed to represent?



          73.
          Bill


On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:

> I see my last message came around twice; sorry for that. Somehow
> I ended up replying to the list with a CC to the list.
> 
> While we are bitching about things, my own pet peeve is email
> messages full of typos and spellos. You folks with eyes usually
> compensate  automatically for such nonsense, but those of us who
> rely on speech synthesizers are cursed (blessed?) with a device
> that tells us exactly what it sees. I have recently implemented a
> short script which is invoked as an alternate editor by pine
> instead of its regular composer. That script first calls a real
> editor ("nano" in my case) and then it calls "ispell" against the
> same file. I automatically have to spell check my compositions
> before pine will let me send them. If anybody wants more details
> (hint hint, KW!) I will be glad to supply them.
> 
> This list is getting to be a pain in the ass to read lately, but
> I presume the mood will change when the phase of the moon changes
> or something.

spell checking mail, was: Re: apology to the list

[Gregory Nowak]

I've tried using emacs' spellcheck, but found it confusing, so I just gave up. If your script is simpler Chuck, then could you please send me a copy? Thanks.
Greg


On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 04:44:59PM -0500, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:
> I see my last message came around twice; sorry for that. Somehow
> I ended up replying to the list with a CC to the list.
> 
> While we are bitching about things, my own pet peeve is email
> messages full of typos and spellos. You folks with eyes usually
> compensate  automatically for such nonsense, but those of us who
> rely on speech synthesizers are cursed (blessed?) with a device
> that tells us exactly what it sees. I have recently implemented a
> short script which is invoked as an alternate editor by pine
> instead of its regular composer. That script first calls a real
> editor ("nano" in my case) and then it calls "ispell" against the
> same file. I automatically have to spell check my compositions
> before pine will let me send them. If anybody wants more details
> (hint hint, KW!) I will be glad to supply them.
> 
> This list is getting to be a pain in the ass to read lately, but
> I presume the mood will change when the phase of the moon changes
> or something.
> 
> Chuck
> 
> 
> *<<<=-=>>>*<<<=-=>>>*<<<=-=>>>*<<<=-=>>>*
> Visit me now at http://www.valstar.net/~hallenbeck
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> 
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Re: apology to the list

[Charles Hallenbeck]

Hi Bill,

On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-777-8123 wrote:

> But I've just gotta ask.  Do we have to have
> the ASCII art that recently started appearing at the bottom of your
> messages?  What's it supposed to represent?

Sorry about that... It means "nothing useful beyond here, time
to hit the delete key"

Chuck

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Re: spell checking mail, was: Re: apology to the list

[Charles Hallenbeck]

Hi Greg,

On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Gregory Nowak wrote:

> I've tried using emacs' spellcheck, but found it confusing, so
> I just gave up. If your script is simpler Chuck, then could you
> please send me a copy? Thanks.

My script does nothing to improve the spell checker, which in my
experience works extremely well with speech right out of the box.
All it does is call two programs back to back, it calls nano to
compose a message and immediately calls ispell to check the
resulting file, and only then does it return to pine to complete
the mailing process. Try using ispell on a plain text file and
see if you are comfortable with it. If not, my script will not
help you.

Chuck

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