And when my shorthand expansions contain apostrophes, which is often the case, these will have to be manually replaced with curly apostrophes as well.Īnd that’s just the beginning. Since these applications are most often horribly inconsistent and flawed, it is a major blow. With the loss of Spell Catcher, I will be forced to revert to each individual application’s implementation of smart quotes, smart spacing, etc. The other applications also do not seem to have any tools for smart punctuation. It’s going to be very tedious, and will force me to memorize yet more abbreviations. Now, it looks like I will have to change my abbreviations in order to make them all unique, regardless of the language that they apply to. their expansion is different depending on the language in which I am writing (English or French). I have numerous shorthand abbreviations that are language-dependent, i.e. They support more than one language, but assume that the writer only functions in one language. But none of them comes even close to Spell Catcher.įor one thing, none of them is multilingual. There are several tools in the same category, including TypeIt4Me, Typinator, and TextExpander.
Typinator or typeit4me for mac os#
As Ted Goranson writes, “Probably his tool will be more or less abandoned, and may not even work with the new system upgrade due next month.”īased on the little bit of research that I have done since hearing of his passing, there is simply no equivalent to Spell Catcher for Mac OS X.
Typinator or typeit4me full#
It is a very sad loss and a truly devastating blow for me and other Mac users who took full advantage of Spell Catcher’s numerous features. He was always extremely responsive and implemented many improvements that I had recommended, especially in order to make Spell Catcher an even better writing tool in French. But I was part of the Spell Catcher beta users team and I corresponded with him extensively over the years. I’ve just found out about the death of Evan Gross, the Mac developer behind Spell Catcher X.Įven though he was a fellow Canadian, I didn’t know Evan personally.
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