r21746 by gpittman - Corrected information in hyphenation/spelling in manual

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Author: gpittman
Date: Thu Jan 26 00:30:24 2017
New Revision: 21746

URL: http://scribus.net/websvn/listing.php?repname=Scribus&sc=1&rev=21746
Log:
Corrected information in hyphenation/spelling in manual

Modified:
    trunk/Scribus/doc/en/hyphenator.html

Modified: trunk/Scribus/doc/en/hyphenator.html
URL: http://scribus.net/websvn/diff.php?repname=Scribus&rev=21746&path=/trunk/Scribus/doc/en/hyphenator.html
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--- trunk/Scribus/doc/en/hyphenator.html	(original)
+++ trunk/Scribus/doc/en/hyphenator.html	Thu Jan 26 00:30:24 2017
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 <h2>Hyphenation and Spellchecking</h2>
 <h3>Hyphenation</h3>
 <h4>Introduction</h4>
-<p>One of the reasons for ugly text layout is “white holes” between words, which in turn are the result of unhyphenated text. A general rule is that the shorter the a line of text, the more likely those gaps are. Hence the strong recommendation to use the hyphenator for continuous text.</p>
+<p>One of the reasons for ugly text layout is “rivers” between words. What you may easily see are white spaces that run vertically across lines of text, which are visually distracting. A general rule is that the shorter the a line of text, the more likely those gaps are. Hence the strong recommendation to use the hyphenator for continuous text. There are other means to reducing visual ugliness or distraction in text, but hyphenation is probably the simplest.</p>
 
 <h4>Configuration</h4>
 <p>To get the best hyphenation results, you are advised to configure the hyphenator properly. This can be done via <i>File > Document Setup > Hyphenator</i> for the current document and <i>File > Preferences > Hyphenation and Spelling</i> for new documents.</p><br>
@@ -35,12 +35,14 @@
 <h3>Spellchecking</h3>
 <p>For spellchecking Scribus uses the <a href="http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/">Hunspell</a> library, which is also utilized by other popular programs like LibreOffice, Firefox or InDesign.</p>
 <h4>Configuration</h4>
-<p>Settings for Spellchecking were formerly under Preferences, but now have moved to <i>Windows > Resources</i>. This brings up the Resource Manager, with <i>Spelling Dictionaries</i> being one of the Categories to choose from. The purpose of this dialog is not the configuration of spellchecking options per se, but the management of available dictionaries.</p>
+<p>Settings for Spellchecking were formerly under Preferences, but now have moved to <i>Windows > Resources</i>. This brings up the Resource Manager, with <i>Spelling Dictionaries</i> being one of the Categories to choose from. The purpose of this dialog is not the configuration of spellchecking options per se, but the management of available dictionaries. Currently, Scribus is using Hunspell for spellchecking, and while there are quite a number of dictionaries available, for less common languages you may need to seek their dictionaries from other sources.</p>
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 <table width="100%"><tr><td align="center"><img src="images/hyphen2.png" align="center" alt="Hyphenator Settings Dialog" /></td></tr></table>
 <p>If you have already installed a program that uses Hunspell, like, for instance, LibreOffice, Scribus will try to detect the installed dictionaries and use them. Installed dictionaries will be listed in the left column of the dialog, where you can also see their location. To make proper use of the right column you need an internet connection, because Scribus will download a list of dictionaries available in LibreOffice’s freedesktop.org repository. You can then select one or more new dictionaries for download. Please note that these dictionaries are stored in your home directory or its equivalent under <code>.scribus/dicts</code>, so other programs cannot use them, unless you copy them to the respective system or program directories.</p>
+<p>Scribus will also make use of Myspell dictionaries, so an alternative place to have them in Linux, for example, might be in /usr/share/myspell.</p>
 <h4>Usage</h4>
-<p>Spellchecking works on a frame basis, so just as with hyphenation, you have to select a text frame before you can let Scribus look for errors. You invoke spellchecking with <i>Extras > Check Spelling...</i> (keyboard: Shift+F7). There is a language selector in the spellchecking dialog, but it will only work for the currently selected frame, after which you may need to reset the language for the next frame. The rest should be self-explanatory.</p>
+<p>Spellchecking works on a frame basis, so just as with hyphenation, you have to select a text frame before you can let Scribus look for errors. You invoke spellchecking with <i>Extras > Check Spelling...</i> (keyboard: Shift+F7). There is a language selector in the spellchecking dialog, but this will not be very efficient for a language other than your default one, since after each word, it will revert to your chosen language. For example, let's imagine that your Scribus language is set for English, and you have some German text in a frame you would like to spellcheck. While you might think that going to Preferences and changing the language to German is the correct method, but his will only change the language for menus and so on.</p>
+<p>The language for spellchecking is actually set in the Edit dialog for Character Styles. For example, pull up the dialog for editing styles, select Default Character Style, then Edit, and under Advanced Formatting you set the language, which will apply to spellchecking as well. You should be able to see when you open the spellchecking dialog that the appropriate language is now indicated.</p> 
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 <table width="100%"><tr><td align="center"><img src="images/hyphen3.png" align="center" alt="Hyphenator Settings Dialog" /></td></tr></table>
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