<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Thanks you everyone for your assistance on this.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">The profile file showed the correct library, but the program kept showing the german one. for some reason. I renamed the file, and when scribus was loaded the new profile showed the correct one, as did the program. <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">I have always thought scribus lacked a spell checker. I have in the past used the text editor, copied the text to Libre office, and run that checker, and then reversed the process. Works well, but a but cumbersome. I was therefore hoping the internal checker would be simpler. I appreciate this is an early effort but there is some room to go before it is a good alternative.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Thanks again for your assistance. Scribus is an excellent program and the effort of some many people is appreciated.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Phil<br clear="all"></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>Philip & Rosemary Tomlinson<br>Wellington</div><div>New Zealand<br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, 7 Mar 2021 at 21:27, Craig Bradney <<a href="mailto:cbradney@scribus.info">cbradney@scribus.info</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">The default paragraph/character style for a document will also contain a language setting, inherited from the preferences when the document is created. If its an existing doc, check preferences and the styles.Î<br>
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Craig<br>
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> On 7 Mar 2021, at 2:03 am, Owen <<a href="mailto:owen.cook@gmx.com" target="_blank">owen.cook@gmx.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> <br>
> Do a search of your prefs150.xml file and see what you have for "lang"<br>
> <br>
> here is my search.<br>
> <br>
> .config/scribus/prefs150.xml<br>
> <attribute key="gui_language" value="en_GB"/><br>
> <br>
> What does yours say?<br>
> <br>
> Alternatively, do as Greg says and blow your Library/Preferences/Scribus away (or rename it if you want to be safe) and restart scribus.<br>
> <br>
> Can you find what environment variable you computer has for LANG, it could have been set wrongly?<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> <br>
> <br>
> Owen<br>
> <br>
>> Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2021 at 3:56 AM<br>
>> From: "Garth Fletcher" <<a href="mailto:garth@jacqcad.com" target="_blank">garth@jacqcad.com</a>><br>
>> To: <a href="mailto:scribus@lists.scribus.net" target="_blank">scribus@lists.scribus.net</a><br>
>> Subject: Re: [scribus] spell checker Scribus1.5.6.1<br>
>> <br>
>> On 3/5/21 9:32 PM, Phil Tomlinson wrote:<br>
>>> Thanks. Sounds like a good idea but I may be dumb, but could you please be<br>
>>> more secific where the files are. I have looked but without success.<br>
>>> Perhaps I am just being dumb!!<br>
>> <br>
>> On Mac OS X 10.13.6 (High Sierra) the only Scribus related files are<br>
>> found in:<br>
>> ~/Library/Application Support/Scribus<br>
>> ~/Library/Preferences/Scribus<br>
>> where ~/ means the user's home folder<br>
>> <br>
>> Contents of the above:<br>
>> ~/Library/Application Support/Scribus<br>
>> charpalette.ucp<br>
>> doc:<br>
>> bookmarks.xml<br>
>> history.xml<br>
>> downloads:<br>
>> fonts:<br>
>> palettes:<br>
>> locked:<br>
>> plugins:<br>
>> scrapbook:<br>
>> main:<br>
>> tmp:<br>
>> scribus-short-words.rc<br>
>> temp:<br>
>> ps.err<br>
>> <br>
>> ~/Library/Preferences/Scribus<br>
>> charpalette.ucp<br>
>> checkfonts.xml<br>
>> checkfonts150.xml<br>
>> doc:<br>
>> bookmarks.xml<br>
>> history.xml<br>
>> downloads:<br>
>> prefs140.xml<br>
>> prefs150.xml<br>
>> ps.err<br>
>> ps.out<br>
>> scrapbook:<br>
>> main:<br>
>> tmp:<br>
>> scribus-short-words.rc<br>
>> scribus140.rc<br>
>> scribus150.rc<br>
>> scribusshapes.xml<br>
>> swatches:<br>
>> locked:<br>
>> <a href="http://tmp.ps" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">tmp.ps</a><br>
>> <br>
>> Nothing found in /Library/<br>
>> --<br>
>> Garth Fletcher<br>
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