<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Apr 3, 2012, at 10:54 AM, Craig Bradney wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; ">Why would windows need a different mechanism? Not only do I not see why we would need a different<br>mechanism, but enchant is (was?) supposed to interface to the natively installed system under<br>Windows, Linux or OSX, etc.</span></blockquote></div><br><div><br></div><div>I don't mean to oversimplify what it takes to implement a spell checker ( I am not a programmer) but don't programs that do have a spell checker make calls to the dictionary installed on the computer? and Is that what Scribus needs to have? A sub-program that compares document words to the computer's dictionary?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>dcat</div></body></html>