pronunciation help for chemical symbols and regular symbols

[jungaree]

Hi,

Having a problem getting the pronunciation editor to recognize "Ca2+." I can edit this in the pronunciation editor to say, "calcium ions," but when it comes to reading/testing the text in paragraph, it reads as "caw 2 plus." Also for other chemical symbols, like Fe2+. Edited as "iron ion" but still coming up, "fay 2 plus."

Also, how can I get the "/" (slash symbol) to read as "per" in such instances as mm/L or km/hr?

Thanks.

[Jim Bretti]

For the Ca2+ and Fe2+ problems, can you give me an idea what your pronunciation editor entries look like?

To read the slash symbol as 'per', I think set up an entry using a regular expression. In the expression, use 'look ahead' and 'look behind' to have the match require any special characters before and after the slash symbol. If you just need to make sure alpha characters are before and after the slash, the dictionary entry could look like this:

Regular expression: (?<=[a-z])/(?=[a-z])
Respell: per