Spell and grammar checking

[Milton Beychok]

Is there any way to spell and grammar check new articles, especially in our personal sandboxes before a new article is birthed?

I have been doing it in a tortuous way by copy and pasting my sandbox work into Microsoft Word and using the spell and grammar checker therein .... writing the detected errors on a piece of paper .... returning to my sandbox and then making the corrections. Is there a simpler way?

Could a spell and grammar checker be integrated into CZ itself?

Milt Beychok

[Larry Sanger]

Data point...http://collaborate.extension.org/wiki/WikiSpeller

[Hayford Peirce]

I don't know when it started, but for the last month or so, whenever I write something in either the Forum edit boxes or in the Article edit boxes my text is getting spell-checked, with (usually) the correct spelling popping up in a box if I first click on the underlined word. First I was using Firefox 3 and now I'm using Google Chrome, and they're both doing it, so I don't know if it's the function of these browsers or of some other mysterious capacity of the Internet. No grammar-check though, although as I recall from trying that out with my WordPerfect program (and glancing at it with Word), that sort of thing seemed more trouble than it was worth.  For a fiction writer it was a real pain in the neck, especially with dialog....

[Joe Quick]

I don't know when it started, but for the last month or so, whenever I write something in either the Forum edit boxes or in the Article edit boxes my text is getting spell-checked, with (usually) the correct spelling popping up in a box if I first click on the underlined word. First I was using Firefox 3 and now I'm using Google Chrome, and they're both doing it, so I don't know if it's the function of these browsers or of some other mysterious capacity of the Internet. No grammar-check though, although as I recall from trying that out with my WordPerfect program (and glancing at it with Word), that sort of thing seemed more trouble than it was worth.  For a fiction writer it was a real pain in the neck, especially with dialog....

Firefox has spelling built in, I believe.  I'm not sure about anything else...

[Howard C. Berkowitz]

Do be especially careful in spell-checking for any articles involving magic.

*ribbit*