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Spell check thinks 'ans' is a word

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July 15, 2019
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Why does Illustrator CC 2019 spell check consider the spelling mistake 'ans' (supposed to be 'and') to be an actual word? ... it does not exist in the English language!!

- This has caused extreme financial loss and a huge waste of precious time.

- I can't contact anyone at Adobe regarding this matter.

Overall Ai spell check is unreliable and has been the cause of recent issues. Can anyone suggest how to adjust this in Ai itself or maybe even suggest a work around?

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Mejor respuesta de Ton Frederiks

Merriam-Webster is US based, I have English UK selected in Ai CC therefore it should have behaved accordingly.

The overwhelming majority of spell check options do not recognise ans as a word. Simple and clear cut.

Some basic grammar research by the developers would have yielded the correct answer, as such the Spell Check function in Ai and Id CC is not up to professional standards.

There is no substitute for human proefreading as Peter mentioned.

InDesign and Illustrator use the open source Hunspell dictionaries.

InDesign also gives you the choice between Hunspell and Proximity.

Proximity flags the "ans" correctly.

I would suggest to request an update to the Hunspell dictionaries here:

Adobe Illustrator Feedback

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stevemyers

Participating Frequently

I think ans is the abbreviation of the answer so you should not be facing this problem, can't figure out what is the matter.

iD3Z1GNAutor

Inspiring

Your contribution lacks thought process and due diligence. Show us the evidence of your comment or is this just a little brain dump?

Mike_Gondek10189183

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Whether the word "ans" or something else, you should be able to edit the application dictionary in addition to the user dictionary. I believe in Illustrator you cannot, unless you edit the code in some file that my memory foggily recalls exisiting somewhere deep in the Mac OS folder.

Best help I can offer, is you can in InDesign fix this word.

Edit >> Spelling >> User Dictionary

I tried to find the file Illustrator uses for application dictionary, but too difficult. and no luck. InDesign uses the file here:

/Users/YOURNAME/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Linguistics/UserDictionaries/Adobe Custom Dictionary/en_US/exceptions.txt

Ton Frederiks

Community Expert

Yes, Mike i don't know where to add words to correct in an Illustrator dictionary.

I see here that Illustrator uses the Proximity dictionaries, which I believe is wrong, the Proximity dictionary in InDesign flags the word ans:

Spelling and language dictionaries in Illustrator

Mike_Gondek10189183

Community Expert

I remember working on an InDesign issue 2 years ago and searching Hunspell, had an Illustrator one. Currently only finding InDesign and InCopy. Don't think it was a .bundle as I could click on it and see much more more.

iD3Z1GNAutor

Inspiring

Thanks for your suggestion but wouldn't a Billion dollar company like Adobe have a proof reading team that tests the product on a regular basis?... the typo 'ans' instead of 'and' would not take long to come up - seriously!

I would expect this from Affinity Designer/Publisher but not Adobe.

Doug A Roberts

Community Expert

What more do you want from this forum? For whatever reason (and it is not implausible that an unusual abbreviation could be a valid entry in a dictionary), 'ans' is in the Hunspell dictionary. You can use Chrome, or Firefox, or OpenOffice, or a number of online spellcheckers and get the same result because they all use that dictionary.

Monika Gause

Community Expert

ans seems to be a variable name in MATLAB (according to Wikipedia).

And if a job can lead to "extreme financial loss" you must be daredevil to not have a human spellchecker involved.

tromboniator

Community Expert

At least one major dictionary (Merriam-Webster) has a listing for ans as an abbreviation for answer. Not a word, but the editors consider it a valid entry. No general-purpose dictionary, let alone an automated system, is going to be perfectly correct for every usage. At least in general, there really is no substitute for human proofreading.

Peter

iD3Z1GNAutor

Inspiring

Peter, thanks for your attempt but none of your arguments are acceptable considering the company involved is Adobe and not some kind of upstart.

- The typo ans is highlighted by Apple Note, Pages and Numbers but not Illustrator or Indesign.

- Type the word ans in Google and no definition will come up. The word does not exist.

- No 3 letter abbreviation is written in lower case - ever!

- Why did the spell check not offer an option to click and or keep it as ans?

- Why did the spell check not offer to make upper case like all 3 letter abbreviations?

We realise that nothing is perfect but ask yourself how easy is it to type ans instead of and? this is a very plausible mistake likely made often enough to warrant a much more professional solution within Illustrator or Indesign.

iD3Z1GNAutor

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There is no substitute for human proefreading as Peter mentioned.

InDesign and Illustrator use the open source Hunspell dictionaries.

InDesign also gives you the choice between Hunspell and Proximity.

Proximity flags the "ans" correctly.

I would suggest to request an update to the Hunspell dictionaries here:

Adobe Illustrator Feedback

Thank you for you evidence based reply, much appreciated. My point is that Illustrator should not have an inferior spell check function. If Adobe believes that we should use another App for the purpose of professional level spell checking then do not make the spell checking function available in Illustrator at all.

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