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.
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.”
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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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Does the Grammarian input menu work under 64-bit apps in Snow Leopard 10.6?
Question: Does the Grammarian Input Menu work under 64-bit apps in Snow Leopard 10.6? 
