[scribus] 1.3.5 Windows spelling checker ?

Craig Bradney cbradney at zip.com.au
Thu Aug 21 22:23:33 CEST 2008


On Thursday 21 August 2008 21:37:08 John Beardmore wrote:
> Jeffrey Silverman wrote:
> > Hm. Those last two paragraphs still seem to miss the point.
> > "Theological" grounds implies a belief system not grounded in facts.
> > But the comments from the Scribus devs does not lead me to conclude
> > dogmatic, religious, theological, or
> > however-you-want-to-put-it-arbitrary decision making on the part of
> > excluding the features that you want.
>
> I am at a slight disadvantage because I don't know which of the
> participants are developers.

http://docs.scribus.net/index.php?lang=en&page=about1 , although it might need 
an update.

>
> I assume Craig Bradney is from his comments, and much heartened by his
> writing

I am

>      "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 certainly don't see anything arbitrary in his decision making.

There isn't.

> Do any of the other scribus developers have a view consistent with the
> notion that
>
>      "the whole idea of spell checker is not really within
>      the scope of what Scribus is going for" ?
>

Its bee on the plans forever. The new text engine that is partially in 1.3.5 
was a start to getting text in line to make it really possible.. we have the 
plugin, the rest will be done at some point. No idea when.

Craig




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