[scribus] 1.3.5 Windows spelling checker ?

[John Beardmore]

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.

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

     "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.

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" ?


>  Scribus is the way it is
> becasue it was built as a DTP tool, a natural grandchild of previous
> page layout tools before it.

Many of which have spelling checkers as I recall.


> And DTP does not, typically, need a
> spellchecker as that part is supposed to be done.

Who supposes ?  Who's supposing what on my behalf ?


> That's it. Nothing religious about it. Nothing dogmatic.

Supposition on behalf of other people might be seen as dogmatic if only 
by those people.


> No "we know
> better". I think I've missed where you picked up that vibe.

The vibe resonates strongly when you excite it with phrases like

     "DTP does not, typically, need a spellchecker",

especially in the face of quite a number of comments from people that 
clearly think otherwise.


Cheers, J/.
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