> On 05 Sep 2016, at 19:25, Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com> wrote: > > On 09/05/2016 12:46 PM, Craig Bradney wrote: >> >>> On 05 Sep 2016, at 17:02, Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com> wrote: >>> >>> On 09/05/2016 10:34 AM, ale rimoldi wrote: >>>> hi ian, >>>> >>>> i guess that most people do not use the spell checking inside of scribus. >>>> >>>> that's why you do not get any answer. >>>> >>>> on this mac, i've tried to type a few words in (not)german in a text >>>> frame, downloaded the swiss german dictionary, and all i get is no >>>> correction, even if i doubt that "its" and "gr?u" are german words. >>> >>> Yes, spellcheck seems to be quite broken both in 1.4.7svn and 1.5.3svn. >>> And it's broken in such a way that it doesn't even know it's broken. I >>> find that the download dictionary feature in 1.4.7 doesn't work either, >>> and in 1.5.3 I don't see anywhere to download dictionaries. >>> >>> Greg >>> >> >> For 1.4.6, downloading dictionaries works fine for me. >> For 1.5.3.svn, Windows->Resources (for now). >> >> Spelling works ok for English. >> >> Any more data should be placed into a bug with a sample document. > > Here is what I see in 1.5.3svn: it says that I have the en_US dicts > installed, and I can find it in /usr/share/myspell/ where Resources says > it is. > The problem is that it finds no spelling errors. > I then added the en_GB dicts (which go to .scribus/dicts/), and then it > says every word can't be found in the dictionary. There didn't seem to > be a way to delete this dictionary from Scribus, since the item would > not highlight in Resources, so I manually deleted it. > > Greg >
Don?t forget to set your style language to what you want to test though! Craig
