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Mac Forum / Applications / Eudora / July 2004unwanted underline problem
Anyone know why certain words become underlined, change color and appear as if they are hyperlinks as I type emails? This seems to occur randomly. When I've sent messages in which this happens to myself no underlines appear and nothing is hyperlinked. But it sure looks otherwise as I type messages. Using Eudora 6.1 and OS 10.3 Thanks. > Anyone know why certain words become underlined, change color and appear > as if they are hyperlinks as I type emails? [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Thanks. Do you have spell-checking turned on?  SignatureAF "Non Sequitur U has a really, really lousy debate team." --artyw raises the bar on rec.sport.baseball >>Anyone know why certain words become underlined, change color and appear >>as if they are hyperlinks as I type emails? [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > Do you have spell-checking turned on? I just went with the default, which as it turns out is that spell-checking is on. I will experiment to see if this is what's happening. I've been a Eudora user for many years, but only recently acquired a Mac. Never during my Eudora/Windows years have I experience this behavior. > I just went with the default, which as it turns out is that > spell-checking is on. I will experiment to see if this is what's happening. > > I've been a Eudora user for many years, but only recently acquired a > Mac. Never during my Eudora/Windows years have I experience this behavior. Don't knock it! That spell-checker underlining is a positive attribute. When you get a little older, your fingers won't always hit the right keys, and your internal "spell checker" can be forgetful! Then, those underlines won't be so pesky. I know, from aging experience < grin > George SignatureGeorge Berger gberger@his.com >> I just went with the default, which as it turns out is that >> spell-checking is on. I will experiment to see if this is what's happening. [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > >George Hey, I'm already old. If that's what's going on I'm not knocking it. At first glance, it's just puzzling such a feature exists only in the Mac version. Spell checking is also turned on in Windows but Eudora doesn't underline in the same fashion or turn "misspelled" words into different colors. [...] > Hey, I'm already old. If that's what's going on I'm not knocking it. > At first glance, it's just puzzling such a feature exists only in the > Mac version. Spell checking is also turned on in Windows but Eudora > doesn't underline in the same fashion or turn "misspelled" words into > different colors. I don't use the spell checker (I prefer to make my own mistakes), but AFAIK it marks what it considers misspelled by underlining it with a red squiglly line. (Much like any text app in Mac OS X, if it uses the built-in spellcheker, I think.) If you see the colour of characters themselves change, something else is happening. Since you mentioned hyperlinks: Eudora, like many apps, tries to recognize strings that are URLs and turns them into hyperlinks. This is presentational feature only of course, the text itself is not changed. Eudora shows such URLs in blue and underlined. The reason it may seem to happen 'only sometimes' is that Eudora does it only with valid URLs. For example, www.apple.com is not a URL, as it lacks the protocol spcifier. http://www.apple.com is a valid URL (well, at least valid enogh to Eudora). If you're going to type URLs, you might as well know that it's wise to enclose them in angle brackets: <http://www.apple.com>. Not only because that's officially requiered, and because a lot of software sill ensure that long URLs (too long to fit a single line) will still be recognized as URLs and thus truned into 'hot links', but simply because suchg a delimiter makes it easier for humans to recognise beginning and end of the URL. If you want to be pedantic, you write them truly valid: <URL:http://www.apple.com> ;) SignatureSander Tekelenburg, <http://www.euronet.nl/~tekelenb/> Mac user: "Macs only have 40 viruses, tops!" PC user: "SEE! Not even the virus writers support Macs!" > If you want to be pedantic, you write them truly valid: > <URL:http://www.apple.com> ;) This, however, breaks the link recognition some in applications (Safari? Or maybe Mozilla). Better without the 'URL'. SignaturePeter > > If you want to be pedantic, you write them truly valid: > > <URL:http://www.apple.com> ;) > > This, however, breaks the link recognition some in applications (Safari? > Or maybe Mozilla). Better without the 'URL'. So much for being pedantic ;) SignatureSander Tekelenburg, <http://www.euronet.nl/~tekelenb/> Mac user: "Macs only have 40 viruses, tops!" PC user: "SEE! Not even the virus writers support Macs!" > [...] > [quoted text clipped - 30 lines] > If you want to be pedantic, you write them truly valid: > <URL:http://www.apple.com> ;) Another possibility is mood-watch. When you're composing, it highlights items that it thinks might be offensive; sometimes, the program's idea of what might be offensive is a little off kilter. SignatureAF > Another possibility is mood-watch. When you're composing, it highlights > items that it thinks might be offensive I hate to do this, but I will have to be pedantic again. MoodWatch does not underlines questionable words, but draws them in red. Paolo > I hate to do this, but I will have to be pedantic again. MoodWatch does not > underlines questionable words, but draws them in red. In his first post PL said : > Anyone know why certain words become underlined, change color and appear > as if they are hyperlinks as I type emails? Thus I think IMHO that Moodwatch answers to the question of "changing color". JPaul. Signature/==/==\\-\ Jean-Paul BLANC / /--/--//\\ quelque-part (somewhere) |/| L |\\\ en (in) \/|| = |||\\\ FRANCE > AFAIK it marks what it considers misspelled by underlining it with a red > squiglly line. Sorry for being pedantic, but the line is not squiggly, as in Word. Only a nice straight underline. :-) Paolo |
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