On 19/05/2012 21:24, Craig Bradney wrote: > On 5/19/12 9:37 PM, John Beardmore wrote: >> On 19/05/2012 19:54, Jean Ghali wrote: >>> Le 19/05/2012 20:41, John Beardmore a ?crit :
>>>> Does 'resolved' mean it will work under windows ? >>> >>> Yes, also... Contrary to aspell, hunspell is fully supported on Windows. >> >> Yeeeee Haaaa ! >> >> After all these years !! (User since 1.3.3.9) >> >> One of the bleats I've had from people who are probably just too idle to >> learn Scribus is that 'it >> doesn't even have a spelling checker' ! > > Which was incorrect, at least, it did, but just not on Windows :) :) Or Macs very easily by the sound of it. Did it work on OS/2 ? Might it be fairer to say that it only worked on Linux ? >> I think this was pretty much the last key feature that was missing. Plenty >> of bugs to fix and many >> wonderful things can still be added of course, but thank you so much for >> sorting this ! >> >> Is there a windows installer for 1.4.2 yet ? > > No because we haven't released 1.4.2 yet. No - I just asked because there have been windows builds of some SVNs in the past, and very useful they were too. >> Is Hunspell the same spell checker as Open Office uses ? If so, will it >> share the same dictionaries ? > > Yes, it uses the same dictionary format. I am working on a downloader so > people don't have to > install OO.org/LO to get the dictionaries though, as I have no intention of > including them in SVN. So if you already have LO installed, will it find all it needs without additional download ? > Scribus looks for them already in default locations on Linux, Windows and > OSX. The spell checker > functionality currently covers the aspell functionality Having never got aspell to work, I don't know what this adds. > (and fixes quite a few bugs) and adds > checking to Story Editor. Excellent news, though I do sometimes find that when I invoke the story editor, it immediately alters the appearance of the story I'm working on. This is a real PITA, and has almost made me abandon the story editor. It seems not to alter the assignment of paragraph styles, but the text is displayed incorrectly. If I change a paragraph in the story editor, that paragraph seems to display correctly on closing the story editor, but the others will retain their new found and unexpected format. I can force it back to the assigned paragraph styles by highlighting paragraphs, then using 'Properties->Text->Style Settings->Remove Direct Paragraph Style Formatting', but as the unexpectedly transformed text is often bigger than the original, this can take a few goes as you can't highlight the whole story at once. Is this reformatting of text on opening the story editor a known bug ? I'm seeing it under windows 7 at the moment, but I think I saw this a couple of years ago under XP too, so I assume it's been around long enough to be well documented by now ? If it's necessary to spell check in the story editor, could a work around be identified for this formatting bug please ? For me, it is one of the more tiring Scribus problems, and again, doesn't make it easy to get other people to take Scribus seriously. Setting aside spell checking, I could abandon the story editor, if it were it not for difficulties copying text when not in the story editor. Outside the story editor, <Alt>EC only seems to be able to take one paragraph at a time, regardless of what you highlight. Is this designed behaviour, or a 'new feature' ? I don't recall Scribus having this issue in 1.3.3.x In the absence of a spell checker, I've taken to copying (using <ALT>EC), chunks of text into Libra Office Writer to spell check. If you have to invoke the story editor to be able to copy large chunks of text, and invoking the story editor means you have to go back and do the 'Properties->...->Remove Direct Paragraph Style Formatting' thing often, again, it makes using Scribus far more irritating (and less productive / credible to newcomers) than it need be. I don't mean to grumble, THIS IS GREAT SOFTWARE, but I'm now doing a second 75 page sustainability audit write up this week in Scribus, and being bitten by the same ergonomic problems repeatedly is getting to me. Cheers, J/. -- John Beardmore,MSc EDM (Open),B.A. Chem (Oxon),CMIOSH,CEnv,MIEMA,MEI Managing Director, T4 Sustainability Limited. http://www.T4sLtd.co.uk/ Registered Office: 181 Belper Road, Stanley Common, Ilkeston. DE7 6FT Company Reg: 4441097, VAT Number: 797 2239 85, MCS: ELC54087. Energy Audit, Carbon Management, Design Advice, Sustainable Energy Consultancy and Installation, Carbon Trust Standard Registered Assessor Transition Training and Consultancy Energy Resilience Assessor Phone: 0845 4561332 Mobile: 07785 563116 Skype: t4sustainability
