Spellchecking and grammar: system-wide settings?

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IIe Author

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Spellchecking and grammar: system-wide settings?

Hello,

Are there system-wide settings for spelling and grammar in OS 10.8?

I know I can set preferences in Text Edit and other apps, but what if I

want Mail to stop suggesting that I capitalize the first letter of a sentence

in my mails and still want Mail to check my spelling.

Are there commands for the terminal that can change that specific behaviour?

Thanks for reading me.

Best regards.

Mac mini, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2), 2,7 GHz i7, 8 Gb RAM, AMD HD 6630M

Posted on Nov 4, 2012 2:27 PM

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John Galt

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Nov 4, 2012 2:39 PM in response to IIe

System Preferences > Language & Text > Text tab

In Mail, Edit menu > Spelling and Grammar.

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IIe Author

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Nov 4, 2012 3:09 PM in response to John Galt

Thank you. I already went through these preferences.

There is no pref for capitalizing the first letter of a sentence.

You can undo this by right-clicking the first word of a sentence or line,

but only for the mail you are writing. It comes back at the next new mail.

I guess I'll have to live with this for the moment.

As mail apps (or other messaging apps) are more and more used as main

"word processors", it would be nice to see additional functions and options

added.

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John Galt

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Nov 4, 2012 3:29 PM in response to IIe

There is no pref for capitalizing the first letter of a sentence.

That's really odd. Mail does not do that for me and I would find it incredibly annoying if it did. I've been searching Mail for a solution and have not found one yet, but I'll let you know if I do.

Edit: You didn't install a third party system modification called TextExpander, did you? That would explain it.

See this post: Auto capitalization in Lion

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IIe Author

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May 14, 2014 11:42 PM in response to John Galt

No, I didn't.

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John Galt

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May 15, 2014 6:03 AM in response to IIe

Triple click to select the entire line that follows, then control-click and select Services > Reveal from the contextual menu that appears.

~/Library/Mail/Bundles/

Describe the result.

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IIe Author

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Nov 15, 2014 11:34 AM in response to John Galt

There is nothing in the Bundles ƒolder.

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