Text expander and clipboard enhancer tools

Posted by Franz Grieser
Nov 23, 2012 at 05:55 PM

Thanks for the reply Patrick (I just stumbled over your post).
I uninstalled Breevy and right now I am testing PhraseExpress. If I am not satisfied with PE (there are some quirks, too), I will give Breevy another try.

Franz

Patrick from 16 Software wrote:
Franz Grieser wrote:
>>Breevy does also import Word
>>AutoCorrect and AutoText but it has a number of quirks when using it
>>with German text which I would have to correct manually (it always
>>autocorrects “i” at the beginning of a word as “I” and it misspells my
>>name as Fraunz).
> >Hi Franz, sorry to hear about the issues you’ve experienced with Breevy.
>Please feel free to shoot us an e-mail at

and
>we’d love to try and figure out what’s going on and hopefully get it
>fixed for you.
> >(I actually think I might know what’s happening with the lowercase “i”
>always being changed to a capital “I”—I could be wrong but my guess
>is that your “i” abbreviation’s replacement mode is set to “immediately”
>(lightning bolt icon). If you switch it to “after a word-ending
>character is typed” (blue icon with white “W” on it) and then Apply your
>changes, that should make it so Breevy only replaces the lowercase “i”
>with a capital “I” if it’s typed as a single word rather than also at
>the beginning of words. Regarding the issue of your name being
>misspelled, I’m not sure what would be causing that other than it being
>misspelled in the abbreviation’s replacement text, but again, feel free
>to e-mail us at

and we’d be happy to troubleshoot
>the issue with you if you like.)
> >- Patrick