Weirdness in FM 12 spell checker

[rosship]

I was just upgraded from Framemaker 10 to 12. According to the About screen, I have 12.0.4.445.

Things generally seem to be working as expected, except for one strange anomaly: the spell checker in Frame 12 considers the word "Add" -- capitalized that way, not if it's all lowercase or all uppercase --  to be misspelled. Not only that, but when I click Learn, it responds "You cannot add Add to a dictionary. To add Add to a dictionary, first deselect the corresponding Find setting in the Spelling Checker Options dialog box."

Obviously, none of the conditions in the Spelling Checker Options apply to "Add", but I tried toggling all of them from their (all default) settings anyway to see if it made a difference. It did not. Other than this, the spell checker is not triggering on any common words, or otherwise behaving strangely.

Has anyone encountered an oddity like this with Frame 12? Do I just have a dictionary with an odd corruption? Is there any way to restore the base dictionary without reinstalling the entire application?

[Mike-Hardy]

Maybe there is some control character or other weirdness in there. See if the right arrow key moves the cursor over the word as expected. Or just re-type it, then spell check again.

Restarting FrameMaker and/or Windows might also help.

[rosship]

I've rebooted and restarted Frame12.

Created a new document using the Blank Paper template. Typed the line "add ADD Add" and spell checked. It stopped on "Add".

So it is persistent, and not a matter of stray invisible characters.

[Jeff_Coatsworth]

Just tried it on my 12.0.4.445 version & it’s not hitting any issues with “Add” (or its variants).

[Arnis_Gubins]

I also tested this on 12.0.0.4.445 with nothing unusual about "Add".

You might want to try the alternate Proximity dictionary to see if something is hosed in your (default) Hunspell one [Edit > Preferences > Spelling > Dictionary]

[rosship]

Great idea. Thanks, Arnis.

When I switch to Proximity, the problem disappears. So I guess I have a munged US English Hunspell dictionary? Is it a file that I could just copy from another FM12 installation to my machine to fix this, or do I have to reinstall?

Alternatively, I suppose I could just keep using the Proximity dictionary--is there an effective difference in the two? I just spell-checked a large document with Proximity and it found no problems, but I don't know if that is necessarily a good sign.

[Arnis_Gubins · Accepted solution]

The Hunspell dictionaries are editable text files (.dic) and are located in the \fminit\Linguistics\7.0\plugins2\AdobeHunspellPlugin\Dictionaries  folder of your FM installation. Make a backup and check the english version that you are using with a text editor.

You could also copy the relevant dictionary file from another (working) system/installation.

Note: The dictionary entry format shows the word followed by an optional affix rule (these are case-sensitive letters that are defined in the .aff file). Google "hunspell dictionary format" for more details. The .aff file may also need to be checked.