Extra spaces in CaseCatalyst

[Trudi O'Brien]

Hi, I just got the student version of CaseCatalyst and sometimes my commas and periods are a space after a word or I have double spaces in between words rather than single. It happened with my DigitalCAT software also so I am guessing it is in my dictionary. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Also, if anyone knows of a CaseCatalyst forum where I could endlessly bug people that would be great.
Thanks,
Trudi

[Trudi O'Brien]

Thanks Rich,
I'll try that. I did go in and check my dictionary and it was defined as only the period or comma but maybe I am not seeing an entry. I am brand new to CaseCAT.
Trudi

[Ryan]

On case look up the entry by pressing T on the keyboard while in your custom keyboard map. If you don't have one, you can definitely just press control T while highlighting it. See if there are any invisible spaces in your entry. If there are you should delete it. See if that helps. Good luck to you.

[Trudi O'Brien]

Thanks Ryan,
I'll give that a try.

[Trudi O'Brien]

Hi Ryan,
When I highlight the comma entry and hit control T in either keyboard it brings up the translate box. Am I doing something wrong?
Thanks

[Ryan]

No, you're doing everything right. Go ahead and see if it's a D-define, in which if you pressed Ctrl T, it should be, and notice if there's any invisible spaces in the translation box. Good luck to you.

[Trudi O'Brien]

Hi Ryan,
I highlight it and get the Translate box that has load settings, steno source, jobs, options, save translations options, etc. The one to translate and edit. But if I highlight it and right click and go to view dictionary entry, then query realtime translation I get a lookup box. Is that where you are talking about? No invisible spaces in there. But can you see what I sent to Rich regarding this. My dictionary is full of a space behind the entry and then what looks like a cursor. How they all got in there I don't know. I guess just start taking them all out? Little by little.

[Ryan]

Actually I may be mistaken. Try pressing ctrl-D for inputing or bringing up a dictionary entry. See if there are any spaces there in the window. I apologize, but maybe that'll help you out more. If there is an extra space after a certain word in which it leaves two spaces, I think the D-Define entry could be wrong. In that same window, you can go ahead in redefine it.

[Trudi O'Brien]

Hi Ryan,
I think 100s of my entries might have an extra space behind them in my dictionary. How? I do not know. I will just start removing all of them. I am pretty much a baby when it comes to software. I had DigitalCAT up until about a week ago and I bought a Diamante and the student version of CaseCAT. Besides this space issue my machine is not communicating with the computer. Hopefully that will be resolved tommorrow. Yes, control D is the key. When I do that there are no spaces in the window for the comma. I think it lies with all the words with the space behind them. AAhhhh. Thank you. : )

[Trudi O'Brien]

Hi Rich, My punctuation hadn't been defined as that but I might be getting closer to solving the mystery. When I go into my personal dictionary I noticed that several words in the left hand column show the word say FUNNY and then there is a space inbetween the word and the cursor symbol. Does that make sense? And when I stroke that word the word comes up with a space inbetween it and the comma. I went in and deleted the entry and the space goes away in the dictionary but not on the screen when I try writing it with the comma again. Hmmmm? Any thoughts on that?
Trudi