[scribus] Spell checker

Gregory Pittman gpittman at iglou.com
Wed Jan 25 20:36:47 UTC 2017


On 01/25/2017 02:52 AM, Owen Cook wrote:
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>> On 01/24/2017 07:59 AM, wena-parry at talktalk.net wrote:
>>> Is there a Welsh Spell checker at all, and how do I use it if such be available?
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>> As far as I can tell, this seems to be broken in Scribus.
>> You can certainly set Welsh as the language for Scribus, and you can get
>> a Welsh dictionary, but I can't seem to get it to work in Scribus, or at
>> least work properly.
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>> When I try to use it, and this is with 1.4.6, 1.4.7svn, or 1.5.3svn, the
>> language keeps reverting to English after each word, and this is with
>> setting the language in Preferences to Welsh.
>>
>> Maybe someone else has some insight.
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> In Debian there does not appear to be a Welsh dictionary for Hunspell, I would imagine the same applies to Fedora packages.
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> There is an aspell one, but Scribus no longer uses aspell.
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> Need a good proof reader :-)
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Actually, there is (at least in fedora). I installed hunspell-cy.noarch,
which puts it in /usr/share/myspell. Thanks to Peter and Martin (and
Craig), now I know about setting the spell language in the Character
styles, so it does work.

Greg



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