[scribus] 1.3.5 Windows spelling checker ?

[John Beardmore]

Louis Desjardins wrote:
> 2008/8/21 Craig Bradney <cbradney at zip.com.au>
> 
>>> Anyway - as I recall, this debate was done to death a while back, and a
>>> checker was being implemented for which I'm truly grateful !
>>>
>>>
>>> So -  sorry to be contentious, but it really annoys me when people tell
>>> me that a tool can only be used their way. Why assume the other options
>>> should be so lightly dismissed ?
>>
>> It won't be dismissed, don't worry. I am one of the believers that Scribus
>> needs an as-you-type and one-shot type spellchecker. I see it fits in the
>> typical small type workflow even if not in the larger workflow. Excluding
>> something because it might not fit to the large environment is wrong IMNSHO
>> and for those types, we can disable a feature (or they can, they have the
>> code!), or just not include a plugin etc.
> 
> 
> I understand that. I didn't mean to ask that we dismiss the spell checker.
> Sorry if that came across like that! I only know that if we want a
> as-you-type-spell-check functionnality the first thing we need is to be able
> to type! Currently, this "simple" task is not that easy (at least, in the
> text frames).

:)  Yes -  I know they can be little clunky.


> I understand so far that from the coder perspective, this is
> one of the main challenges Scribus is facing now — rebuilding the text
> engine, in order to allow easy text editing. So, so far, typing directly in
> Scribus is difficult. I believe it's easier to achieve this task in another
> program, such as Open Office.

Not so much easier that I'd not do it in Scribus. When text frames get 
too unresponsive I do resort to the story editor.


> And I believe that such heavy manipulation of
> text is better be done uptream too.

Very heavy manipulation perhaps, though generally I know what I want to 
say before I start to type into Scribus. Alterations are thus usually minor.


> And in the case of Scribus, the stream
> is even stronger because typing in corrections is a not-so-easy task.

It can an presumably will be improved, but I find it adequate.


Cheers, J/.
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