do you know, if you add a word (like a name) to your document dictionary, when you send the document to someone else, will their document dictionary ID it as misspelled again, or will it still show up correctly spelled?
Posted by Meredith (Member # 8368) on :
I think the dictionary is local to your computer. It would show up as misspelled on a critiquer's computer, I think.
Posted by debhoag (Member # 5493) on :
never occurred to me before, but was hoping that the formatting went with it.
Posted by aspirit (Member # 7974) on :
Changes to your dictionary don't transfer to another computer. A quick way to test this is to email a document to yourself, then look at that document on a library computer (assuming your public library offers Internet access).
Posted by Meredith (Member # 8368) on :
quote:never occurred to me before, but was hoping that the formatting went with it.
Formatting does. It's internal to the document. But the dictionary is not.
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Posted by extrinsic (Member # 8019) on :
I have a high-end word processor application that incorporates several job and document dictionaries that retain internal entries. They're subfiles that package and transfer with the main file. Word, WordPerfect, and OpenOffice do not offer that feature yet.
An included style sheet file is an editor/writer's workaround for sharing unconventional entries along with conventional word processor files, say, in an editing discussion between an editor and a writer preparatory to publication. I've encountered style sheets in correspondence between writers and editors dating back to the 1950s.
A basic style sheet includes unconventional word spellings, invented terms, unconventional capitalizations, downstyle rules for punctuation and capitalizations and other rules for internal consistency, for example. Chicago Manual of Style and Marshall Lee's Bookmaking: The Illustrated Guide to Design/Production/Editing both discuss the importance and methods of style sheets for writers, editors, copyeditors, proofreaders, and typesetter compositors.
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