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Grammarian PRO2 X FAQ
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Question: How do I upgrade to Grammarian PRO2 X (from Grammarian PRO X)?
Answer:

1. Upgrade purchasing: Valid Grammarian PRO X customers are eligible for a special upgrade purchase price for Grammarian PRO2 X. Upgrade purchasing is done only via the Grammarian PRO2 X application. Installing and running the Grammarian PRO2 X application will show you whether you are eligible for the special upgrade price and will also allow you to purchase the upgrade directly. You must have an active internet connection to do this.

2. Upgrade eligibility: Grammarian PRO2 X will show that you are eligible only if you have or have had an active valid registered copy of Grammarian PRO X installed. If Grammarian PRO2 X does not show that you are eligible and you should be, please contact Linguisoft upgrade support for instructions on how to buy the upgrade. Please include your Grammarian PRO X customer information (serial number, name, and email address). Once you have then purchased your upgrade activation ID code, Grammarian PRO2 X will then ask you for your just purchased Grammarian PRO2 X upgrade activation ID code and your current valid Grammarian PRO X serial number .

3. 60-day free upgrade: Customers who bought Grammarian PRO X within 60 days before the PRO2 public release (Nov. 13, 2010 - Jan. 13, 2011) should contact Linguisoft upgrade support for a new PRO2 activation code. Include your Kagi Invoice number for Grammarian PRO X or your Grammarian PRO X serial number, name, and same email address that you purchased under. Your purchase must be manually verified and processed before your activation can be sent to you. Please be patient.

4. New Customers: New customers who have not purchased Grammarian PRO X previously can purchase Grammarian PRO2 X from here.

All valid Grammarian PRO X serial numbers will continue to work with all Grammarian PRO X releases. Your Grammarian PRO X license will always remain intact. All Grammarian PRO2 registration serial number updating is now done through a new Online Registration Updater that presents itself through a new Licenses window. It's all very straight forward.


Question: Is Grammarian PRO2 compatible with Lion 10.7?
Answer:

Yes, Grammarian PRO2 X works fine with Lion. However, you must use the Grammarian PRO2 pencil input menu. A few small display quirks currently exist with the checkmark input menu under Lion. This is currently being addressed. You cannot use the "Grammarian32" 32-bit input menu. The Grammarian PRO2 Contextual Menu is not compatible (32-bit). And, some folks have reported that they were unable to activate Grammarian PRO2 after the latest Lion update. This is an Apple Update issue. Run the latest Lion Combo Updater to correct anyMac OS X Lion issues such as this. Download the Combo Updater from here: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1459

 Question: How do I get the Grammarian Input Menu to work under 64-bit apps in Snow Leopard 10.6?
Answer:

Grammarian PRO2 introduces a new 64-bit Apple-sanctioned input method named "Grammarian" that works just like the Grammarian input menu component. This input method is turned on in the System Preferences list just like the Grammarian input menu component.


In order for your applications to run as 64-bit applications, make sure that the application 32-bit mode switch is off in the Finder.

To turn off 32-bit mode (change a 64-bit application from 32-bit):
In the Finder, select an application, choose File => Get Info or press the cmd-I shortcut. Select the “Open in 32-bit mode” option.
32-bit


Grammarian PRO2 installs the 64-bit input method and the 32-bit input menu component for the sake of both new 64-bit compatibility and older application compatibility.

Question: I upgraded from Grammarian PRO X, and now Grammarian PRO2 X acts strangely.
Answer: If you still have the Grammarian PRO X folder in the Applications folder along with the Grammarian PRO2 X folder, remove this Grammarian PRO X folder as it will interfere with launching of the Grammarian PRO2's application.

Question: Where is the Grammarian PRO2 X manual?
Answer: The Grammarian PRO2 X manual is built-in to the Grammarian application and is accessible from the "Grammarian Help..." menu item on the Pencil Menu.

Question: How do I check a document with Grammarian PRO2 X?
Answer: Use the Grammarian Pencil Menu or Grammarian Input Menu to access Grammarian PRO2's checking features. With your document window that you want to check frontmost, select the Check All or Check Selection menu item in the Grammarian Pencil Menu or Grammarian Input Menu. Take a look at the QuickTime clip here.

Question: Grammarian continually crashes when it checks spelling. First, it suggests strange suggestions, and then it crashes.
Answer: This is a classic signature corrupt spelling dictionary symptom. The crash point on the crash log is "Find_Metaphone_Dict_Match". Go to our downloads page and download the English spelling dictionary. Once downloaded, install the dictionary. The installation instructions are included on the download image.

Question: I use Apple's Pages. Why am I losing my footnotes when Grammarian pastes my changes?
Answer: This is an Apple Pages clipboard export bug. "Footnotes" is a format included in the RTF Text format design specifications. Therefore, this is unexcusable to not address this bug. Tell Apple about their bugs. If the document format is not first exported to the clipboard, you won't get it when the text is pasted back to the clipboard. This is NOT a Grammarian issue.


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Grammarian PRO X FAQ
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Question: Does the Grammarian Input Menu work under 64-bit apps in Snow Leopard 10.6?
Answer: Input menu components are not available to applications running in 64-bit mode in Snow Leopard. As soon as an Apple solution for 64-bit input methods becomes viable, we will make it available for Grammarian. Apple has been working on this although it is not ready for primetime. For now, you must select the option to run in 32-bit mode (in the Finder’s Get Info window) for ALL these applications (NOT the Grammarian app) that you are using. Nothing is sacrificed in doing this.

If you have a dimmed Grammarian item in the Input Menu flag menu after installing Snow Leopard 10.6, you have a newer Mac and you have this 64-bit mode issue. Nearly all system applications — the Address Book, iCal, iChat, Mail, Preview, Safari, Stickies, and TextEdit — are now built with 64-bit code. Without the 32-bit mode switched on, Grammarian will be dimmed whenever any of these applications are the active application.


To change a 64-bit application to 32-bit:
In the Finder, select an application, choose File => Get Info or press the cmd-I shortcut. Select the “Open in 32-bit mode” option.

32-bit

Also, open the System Preferences, click Language & Text, and then select the Input Sources tab. Select the input source option: "Allow a different one for each document".
In summary, the “Open in 32-bit mode” checkbox will not be displayed in the application’s Finder-Get Info window:
1. If the Mac hardware is 32-bit only.
2. If an application is not 64-bit capable.
The list of applications that are currently 64-bit: Address Book, iCal, iChat, Mail, Preview, Safari, Stickies, and TextEdit.
Note: If you change the “Open in 32-bit mode” setting of an open application, you’ll need to quit and relaunch the application to run it in 32-bit mode. You cannot set the Finder this way. Somehow or another, the system still launches it into 64-bit mode anyways. :-(
The latest versions of Grammarian now include "Actuator" code to compensate for the Snow Leopard bugs by automatically switching the Grammarian input menu on its own instead of letting the system do it erroneously. Go to the Downloads page.

Also, be sure that Grammarian is not running in Rosetta. Uncheck this setting in the Finder "GetInfo" if it is on.

Question: How do I get Grammarian PRO X to work in OS X?
Answer: Install Grammarian PRO X by dragging the Grammarian PRO X folder into your Applications Folder. Launch the Grammarian™ application. Grammarian™ will ask to install its Input Method Component. Choose OK to install it. Then, Log Out or Restart. Once you have installed Grammarian PRO X and logged out or restarted in OS X:

1. Open System Preferences.
2. Select International from the System Preferences panel.
3. In the International panel, select the Input Menu tab.
4. Scroll down the list of languages and place a check mark next to Grammarian.
5. Close the International preference panel.
6. An American Flag (or British Flag, etc.) should now appear in the menu bar at the top of your screen. You can access Grammarian from the American Flag menu. Once you select it from the list, you will see a check mark and a pencil in the menu bar at the top of your screen. To access the Grammarian menu, click and hold down on the pencil in the menu bar.

Note: If the American Flag (or British Flag, etc.) does not display on the menu bar when you place a check mark next to Grammarian, try placing a check mark next to another language as well. Then, remove this check mark. One report that we received stated that Mac OS X needed this nudge to get the American Flag to take.

Another shortcut trick is: “After you check the Grammarian box and the 'Show input menu in menu bar', hit apple, option, and space bar. This automatically puts the pencil in the menu bar.”

If this isn’t clear or helpful enough, you may view detailed installation instructions here.

Question: Where do I enter my registration license serial number?
Answer: After purchasing and receiving your license registration, bring the Grammarian PRO X application frontmost, and select Grammarian’s Register item in the Options menu. Enter your name and serial number in the Registration dialog. Your serial number is your private property. Do not give it to others. We do ban and retire serial numbers.

Question: Will Grammarian PRO X still work when I turn off the “Show input menu in the menu bar” option in the International System Preferences Input Menu panel?
Answer: Yes. Grammarian PRO X still functions normally when the “Show input menu in the menu bar” option is off (shown below), and the Grammarian pencil menu will still be displayed on the menu bar. Actually, you can do this to conserve menu bar space.

Show Input Menu
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Question: Why can’t I get Interactive Checking to work?
Answer: Is the Grammarian PRO X menu pencil red? If so, interactive checking is off. Set Interactive Spelling, Grammar, AutoCorrect, AutoType, etc. from the Grammarian interactive checking submenu. The Grammarian pencil turns yellow for spelling, green for grammar, and yellowish-green for spelling and grammar. Grammarian remembers the settings for each application and automatically changes the settings when you switch from one application to another.

Question: I cannot get Grammarian to show in the System Preferences/Input Menu list. What should I do?
Answer: Some customers are having problems getting Grammarian’s input method to activate, or even appear in the International System Preferences/Input Menu list.

Many solved this by simply toggling an input source on and off (any input source) to get things working properly again.

Also, what sometimes works is to look for the Grammarian.component in the Users/~/Library/Components folder, drag the Grammarian.component from the Components folder to the Desktop, drag it back into the Components folder, and then Restart immediately. This seems to get the system to recognize the component so that the system knows that the system caches need to be rebuilt when the system starts up again. The component location is shown here:


Also, many solved this by trashing the preference file that contains the input menu configuration, restarting and then configuring it again. To do this, navigate to your home ~/Library/Preferences/ByHost folder, trash all the files named like “com.apple.HIToolbox.###########.plist”. Restart immediately. Once you are logged in again, open the System Preferences/International/Input Menu tab, and configure it again.

Also, note that a very rare Mac OS X bug exists in which the system will sometimes not read its system input menu preferences at bootup. Logging out and back seems to always cure this as the system does successfully read the preferences during a login. And note that none of these procedures should be necessary in Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard as the pertinent Apple bugs seem to have been fixed.

Question: Can I make my own user spelling dictionaries?
Answer: Yes. Create a regular document text file of file type: “TEXT” in a text utility. Paste your words into the document and sort them. Try to make all the words lowercase if possible. Then, add this file with the “Add...” button on the Writing Rules Spelling pane. This will convert the file into a dictionary, and it is now in the Spelling pane and pencil menu’s Spelling menu. You'll need to switch the dictionary on to make it active. Some programs that save true “TEXT” files are AppleWorks (when the Text format is selected), BBEdit, and Tex-Edit Plus. TextEdit files are usually of the type “RTF” and will not work.

Question: Interactive Checking stopped working. How can I get it to work again?
Answer: Yes, we get several reports on this every time that Apple releases a system update. The system updates either do not update all system files, change the system cache, or change the system level permissions. This affects other files as well.

If updating OS X caused this, the fix then is to update with the combo OS X updater. Grab the OS X combo updater instead of the standard updater and update again over your existing installation. The file size is larger than the standard updater and includes all pristine OS X files. (http://support.apple.com/downloads/)

Also, simply repairing permissions with Disk Utility (Applications/Utilities) has proven to be a successful fix for small Apple updates such as QuickTime.

Question: I seem to be having problems with Grammarian PRO X windows and sometimes get the spinning beach ball. What should I do?
 Answer: If the Grammarian preference file gets partially written or damaged, this could cause strange behavior. Quit Grammarian PRO X, find the Grammarian preferences file in the Users/Library/Preferences folder, and throw this file into the trash. The next time Grammarian runs, it’ll build a new preference file.

Question: Where can I get multilingual spelling dictionaries, and how do I install them in Grammarian PRO X?
Answer: Additional spelling dictionaries (Australian, British, Canadian, French, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, etc.) can be downloaded from the downloads page on our Web site. Install these dictionaries with the Add... button in the Writing Rules dialog Spelling pane.
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Question: What do the grammar parse abbreviations represent in the reference portion of the check window?
Answer:
MC - main clause
SC - subordinate clause
ADJP - adjectival phrase modifier clause
ADJC - adjectival clause
ADVM - adverbal phrase modifier clause
ADVC - adverb clause modifier

MTEN - modal verb
PTEN - passive voice
FTEN - future tense
HTEN - perfect past

INFPH - infinitive phrase
PPH - prepositional phrase
GERPH - gerundal phrase
VRBLPH - verbal phrase
ADJPH - adjective phrase
NPH - noun phrase
VPH - verb phrase
SJUNCTPH - subjunctive phrase
SUBCONJ - subordinate conjunctive phrase
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Question: What do the parts of speech abbreviations represent in the reference portion of the check window?
 Answer:
ndet - noun determiner
sndet - singular noun determiner
pndet - plural noun determiner
n - noun
pron - pronoun
nplur - noun plural
nsing - noun singular
(poss.) - possessive noun
obj - object
proper - proper noun
unit - numerical unit

human - person association
animal - animal association
- nan - animate noun association
- nin - inanimate noun association

inf - infinitive
prep - preposition
loc - locative preposition
dir - directional preposition
assc - associative preposition

art - article
adj - adjective
color - color

adv - adverb
manner - adverb of manner
deg - adverb of degree
cause - adverb of cause
place - adverb of place
time - adverb of time

coord - coordinate conjunction
v - verb
pv - passive verb
lv - linking verb
sensv. - sensory verb
past. - verb past tense
plpres - plural present tense verb
spres - singular present tense verb
part - participle
perpast. - perfect past
perpart - perfect participle
fut - future
modal - modal verb
-vi. - intransitive verb
-vt. - transitive verb
-vanim - animate verb association
-vinanim - inanimate verb association
-vobjcom - object complement verb
-vtimpin - temporal infinitive verb

ger - gerund
conj - conjunction
-add - conjunction of addition
-sub - conjunction of subtraction
-alt - conjunction of alteration
-ill - conjunction of illation
-incorp - conjunction of incorporation
-comp - conjunction of comparison

advconj - adverb conjunction
restrict - restrictive
relconn - relative connective
advmod - adverb modifier
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Question: Where can I see a list of homophones that Grammarian PRO X checks?
Answer:
access - excess
ad - add
add - ad
adopt - adept
advise - advice
affect - effect
all ways - always
altar - alter
annul - annual
anyone - any one
a while - awhile
bathe - bath
bee - be
blew - blue
breathe - breath
cant - can't
cell - sell
cite - site
commend - command
council - counsel
device - devise
devise - device
envelop - envelope
every one - everyone
form - from
forth - fourth
heal - heel
here - hear
its - it's
knew - new
lessen - lesson
lose - loose
maul - mall
meat - meet
meddle - medal
meet - meat
no body - nobody
our - hour
passed - past
peace - piece
pour - poor
pour - pore
quite - quiet
quit - quiet
read - red
resent - recent
right - write
rite - write
road - rode
sale - sail
sea - see
seem - seam
sight - cite
slay - sleigh
soar - sore
some day - someday
some one - someone
some time - sometime
steak - stake
steal - steel
than - then
their - they're
too - to - two
weather - whether
which - witch
wont - won't
your - you're
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Question: Turning off all the spelling dictionaries and doing “Check All...” underlines all the words in red in the error view. Is this a bug?
Answer: No, this isn't a bug. Check All... selects all the text and then checks all the spelling and grammar of the text. Manually turning off all the spelling dictionaries does not turn off the spell checking function. However, turning off all the spelling dictionaries does turn these off as expected. Thus, all the words would be considered spelling errors. Use the Check Selection/Check Grammar... menu item to check only grammar if this is your intention.
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Question: All Interactive functions stopped working, and the Grammarian pencil menu icon is blue. What can I do?
Answer: You can try this: quit Grammarian, then drag the Users/~/Library/Application Support/Grammarian folder to the desktop. Run the Grammarian application again to make Grammarian create a new Application Support/Grammarian folder. Then log out or restart (to clear the memory). Is everything working now?

The interactive preferences are stored in the file: Tool Params which is located in the Application Support/Grammarian folder. If this file cannot be read or written, then you'll get the blue pencil menu and the loss of interactive functionality. When Grammarian runs again, it knows to create a fresh Application Support/Grammarian folder. Once everything is working normally, you can replace all the dictionary folders from the Grammarian folder that you placed on the desktop (quit the Grammarian application first). This will restore your settings. Do not replace the Tool Params file that was just created. This procedure is also a remedy for Grammarian Menu Keyboard Shortcuts that do not stick.
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