Auto spell checker wants to capitalise new lines after forced line breaks
This is a bug report for the new auto spell checker feature in Illustrator 2020.
It does not understand that when you force a line break (using shift-return, not making a new paragraph with return), it’s not a new sentence.
So it wants to capitalise the first word on the new line.
This makes no sense and does not match the way it works in InDesign.
Thanks for fixing that!
nicolas
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Anonymous commented
Please fix this.
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Shaun Lee
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100% agree, this needs fixing, illustrator is not MS Word.
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Andrew Southard
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I work on thousands of Illustrator files, often just proofing or looking for errors. The addition of the spellchecker was great for speeding up my visual scan of the files, but...
It works as it should in area text, but if there is point text with forced line breaks, every word at the beginning of a line which is not capitalised gets flagged as an error which defeats my quick visual scan.
I've had to write an action to select all text, convert it to area text, and then remove paragraph breaks so that I can see the spelling mistakes and typos. The downside of this action is that if there are legitimate paragraph breaks, I lose them too.
It would be useful to have a "don't check capitalisation" toggle, even if you spell it with a 'z'.
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Andrew Southard
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Upvote. For someone doing technical illustration, flagging a capital after a line break makes the spell checker unusable.
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So stupid
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The dictionary Illustrator uses is quite poor it seems, especially for non-English languages.
But what’s more important, Ai always wants me to make each first word capitalized in a line after a soft-break. Hey, do you know soft break is not a paragraph return, right? It means just a new line, not the end of a sentence.
Just stop. It makes the Spellcheck completely useless.
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Anonymous
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I agree. Just finished chatting with Support, trying to sort this out. He sent me here so that I could submit a "Feature Request" and I laughed. A fixed bug is NOT a feature.
