Spellcheck wants to capitalise letters that follow quotes with question mark
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(Indesign CS6. Hunspell dictionary ON.)
Whenever I do a spellcheck, I spend tremendous time skipping errors for lower case letters that follow a quote just because the quote ends in a question mark or exclamation mark.
Eg., “Would you like that?” she said.
“You would like that!” she said.The spellcheck thinks that “s” in “she” needs to be capital, though that would be grammatically wrong.
Eg., “You would like that,” she said.
The spellcheck here has no problem with the “s”.
Please help.
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Interesting problem! I can’t think of any way of altering that behavior in InDesign itself. I wonder if Mindsteam’s spell or grammar checker would be better? https://www.mindsteam.com/products/mindgrammar/index.html
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OK. A while back I had downloaded Hunspell dictionaries from Mozilla, since CS5 didn’t work by default with Hunspell.
I wonder if those old files needed erasing or something when moving onto CS6. If yes, I would appreciate some directions in getting ID CS6’s Hunspell features to work in a perfect default manner.
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It’s been a huge pain in the backside for a while, to be honest, I’ve always had this issue.
It’s simply because “That’s what she said,” she said, the comma is not a marker for the end of a sentence.
And “That’s what she said!” she said, where the exclamation point would mark the end of a sentence.
InDesign looks for end of sentence punctuation and then flags the text after it as not being the right case, as uppercase is usual rule here.
However, it never takes into account things like “That’s what she said, etc., by the way” where “by” would be flagged for capitalisation.
In short, InDesign hasn’t got the brains behind the beauty to recognise grammar. Where Word does to an extent, it’s usually wrong, but that’s neither here nor there.
Best thing to do for a spell check is to go to Preferences and turn off the option to check for capitalisations.
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“In short, InDesign hasn’t got the brains behind the beauty to recognise grammar. Where Word does to an extent, it’s usually wrong, but that’s neither here nor there.”
Well–I think that is either here or there. Word does it wrong as well.
ID is not a word processing program, but one of layout. I don’t know if it could be programmed to recognize all the variables of grammar.
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Yes, this is definitely a failing in the capitalization rules. A sentence like:
“Get out of here!” he shouted.
will be flagged as an error because the “he” is lowercase, which it indisputably should be. It’s too bad, because it is a useful thing to be able to check for bad capitalization. I don’t want to turn off this check, because the program did pick up one error using this rule where I had typed a lowercase L at the beginning of a sentence instead of the word “I”, but most of what it flags is correctly formatted quotes.
A similar situation applies to double words. It doesn’t surprise me when it highlights “had had” (“He had had measles as a child”) or “that that” (“I knew that that was an error”). But it also flags double words separated by punctuation, which is rarely a mistake. (Eg, it flagged the word “it” in “I cannot describe it – it was as if someone had spun me around”)
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