[scribus] Spellcheck problem

[Craig Bradney]

> 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 "gräu" 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