carOline wrote: > > Hello, List, > > Here at UCLA, we are starting to edit our SGML files and would like to know how > to customize MS Word '97's spell-check to ignore all sgml tags [and their > contents]. If this involves too much programming, does anyone know of any Text > Editors with spell-check that one can set to ignore sgml tags? > > Thank you, > > Caroline Cub� / Genie Guerard > OAC/CDL Caroline: Not sure about modifications to bloated and expensive M$ product, but a text-editor known as NoteTab <http://www.notetab.com> will happily spell-check your documents and ignore anything between '<' and '>'s, providing that your file extension (.sgm, .sgml, .xsl, &c.) is "registered" under View>>Options>>HTML Files. By so "registering" a file extension in Notetab, all elements, attributes and comments assume colours that distinguish them from regular text: so called "syntax highlighting." Re. too much programming: NoteTab is highly configurable and makes use of a powerful but quite simple scripting language. Eg. with a single mouse click I can calculate the total extent of a collection from adding together the element values of <extent> at various levels in the document hierarchy. I consider that pretty nifty for a $20 editor...but then emacs is free. regards, Stephen -- Stephen Yearl, Project Archivist [log in to unmask] ************************* Connecticut Historical Society 1 Elizabeth Street Hartford, CT, 06105 ************************* http://www.chs.org *************************