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Hi,

As I already explained in an earlier posting...

... Affinity Software does not recognize Systems-Settings "Austrian-German" as German and therefore sets the spellchecking-language to "unknown".
I asked Serif to map all variants of "german" (Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Luxemburg) to Germany-german as a workaround.

Perhaps it´s a better approach, to add a language selector to the "new document"-Window.

 

Thanks.
Fritz

Posted
1 hour ago, Fritz_H said:

Perhaps it´s a better approach, to add a language selector to the "new document"-Window.

That would be interesting, Fritz.

However, it's possible that there's another approach you can use now. Try this:

  1. Create a new document.
  2. In the Text Styles panel, double-click on the Base text style to open the editing dialog.
  3. In the Language tab, specify German as the Spelling language.
  4. Click OK to close the dialog.
  5. Click the Hamburger menu for the Text Styles panel, and choose Save Styles as Default.

That will set the default spelling language for the Base text style to German. And, if you're lucky, Publisher won't override it with "unknown". And then all the other text styles will also be German as they all inherit from Base.

(I would try this myself, but I'm unwilling to make all the necessary changes to my Windows settings to get a proper test. Sorry :) )

-- Walt
Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases
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Posted

@walt.farrell 

Thanks for the nice idea; tried it - but did not succeed. (perhaps my fault..)

In general I really think that there should be such a language selector in the "new Document"-Window.
Imagine a graphics artist doing a Client-Job in a foreign language.

Defaulting to the language-settings of the computer where to software is running is convenient, but wrong.
Just think of countries with more than one official language .
(Switzerland, Malta, Spain, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Finland, Greenland, Canada, South Africa, USA ?, Cyprus...)

kind regards
Fritz
 

  • 3 months later...
Posted

Guys,

I have to stick to PagePlus.

Spelling is very hard to manage with Affinity Publisher.

I want a simple thing:

1) the user interface is English or any other interface language supported by Affinity, regardless of the computer OS set-up.

2) Uncouple the spelling languages from the Affinity interface language; e.g.interface in English, spelling in French

3) Please provide:

- a single command to define the spelling language for the whole document.
This should be used as initial set-up or to overrule language settings of imported PDFs
Note: PDF imports from Pageplus which are correct in French are not understood as such by Affinity and are shown as incorrect because English is used as default spelling language by Affinity.

- a command to define the spelling language by page (right click on the Master page and the Page views - adjust the spelling language on the spread dialog)

- a command to define the language by text block (right click)

- it should be easy to manage multi-lingual documents and toggle spelling by page/blocks of text etc, in a WYSiWYG way

4) BUG ? if you change the spelling language in the Preferences/Auto-correct, whatever you do, it always go back to English and the change of spelling language does not occur.

Note: the spelling Help explanations are not clear and do not seem to provide practical help for the spelling questions.

Regards, Philippe

Posted
32 minutes ago, pdussart said:

4) BUG ? if you change the spelling language in the Preferences/Auto-correct, whatever you do, it always go back to English and the change of spelling language does not occur.

Not a bug, as far as I know. The Auto-Correct settings do not specify the language to use. Instead, they specify the standard corrections to make if that language is being used.

So, if you have English and French text, the English auto-corrections are used for the English text, and the French auto-corrections are used for the French text.

36 minutes ago, pdussart said:

2) Uncouple the spelling languages from the Affinity interface language; e.g.interface in English, spelling in French

That is already possible. All text styles will inherit from the style named Base by default, so just set Base to the default language you want to use.

 

38 minutes ago, pdussart said:

it should be easy to manage multi-lingual documents and toggle spelling by page/blocks of text etc, in a WYSiWYG way

You can do that for blocks of text by assigning Character or Paragraph Text Styles to them, where each language has its own set of Text Styles.

So, for example, if your primary language in a document is French, then define the Base style as using French. Then define a Character Text Style that makes no changes except for specifying a different Spelling Language. Assign that Character text style to blocks of text in the other language.

-- Walt
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PC:
    Desktop:  Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 

    Laptop:  Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU.
    Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2,  16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU
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  • 3 years later...
Posted

Hi, since 1984, all my Macs are in English, but I usually create document in French - it's a kind of history habit : at the beginning of the Mac, localisations of the OS to French where late and not always without translations problems. So I'm used to English menus, dialogs and messages on my Macs.

I only want to be able to set Publisher to automatically set the language of my new documents to French, so I can still use autocorrection, but sticking with the interface in English.

No problems with Pages, Numbers and other softwares, but I haven't found how to do it in Publisher.

Thanks for your help, 

Bernard

Posted
1 hour ago, Bernard Scherler said:

Hi, since 1984, all my Macs are in English, but I usually create document in French - it's a kind of history habit : at the beginning of the Mac, localisations of the OS to French where late and not always without translations problems. So I'm used to English menus, dialogs and messages on my Macs.

I only want to be able to set Publisher to automatically set the language of my new documents to French, so I can still use autocorrection, but sticking with the interface in English.

No problems with Pages, Numbers and other softwares, but I haven't found how to do it in Publisher.

Hi, it's a bit more complicated than you might expect. I wrote some instructions this week for my Publisher manual - attached below you'll find a draft of what will be in the next edition. You can download the full PDF manual free from the link in my signature.

setup.pdf

Since you want to use English instead of French for the interface, just set the interface language to English instead of Default but the rest should be the same. The link for installing additional dictionaries won't work because this is just an excerpt, but the French dictionaries are already installed.

Note that these instructions are written for Affinity v2 but it's the same for v1.

Cheers

Posted

Hi Mike,

thanks a lot – this actually works! (I treated v2 first, but will extend it to my heritage v1 as well)

BTW: as your PDF comprises of just one spread it stops a bit short at the end when dealing with the setting of the ”Base” style... In case anybody wonders how to end the procedure: when you look around a bit in the dropdowns in the Text Styles Studio/Panel, you will find you'll the option to ”Save styles as Default“, which you will have to do eventually.

Posted
1 minute ago, Lorox said:

Hi Mike,

thanks a lot – this actually works! (I treated v2 first, but will extend it to my heritage v1 as well)

BTW: as your PDF comprises of just one spread it stops a bit short at the end when dealing with the setting of the ”Base” style... In case anybody wonders how to end the procedure: when you look around a bit in the dropdowns in the Text Styles Studio/Panel, you will find you'll the option to ”Save styles as Default“, which you will have to do eventually.

Yes. The next page of the manual reads:

3. The Text Style Editor window will be displayed. Click Language in the left pane.

4. Set Spelling to the language you wish to use. If you want to set the hyphenation language at the same time, set Hyphenation to the language you want to use. Refer to Set the default hyphenation language above before changing this option.

5. Click OK to update the style.

6. Choose Save Styles as Default from the Text Styles panel menu.

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