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I'm not sure what's going on, but I've got a document full of words flagged as misspelled that are correct. Right clicking to see the suggestions doesn't even have the correct word. See attached "stopped" is a perfect example. Is there a way to reset the spelling library perhaps?

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Posted

Which app are you using?

Might be grammar, more than spelling, if you consider that not all of the words "stopped" are highlighted. It might also be the period, try removing it and see if the red line vanishes.

Might also be an idea to turn on special characters temporarily just for debugging purposes.

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If those ideas don't help, please provide a sample document in .afpub format (assuming you're using Publisher, as the Baseline Grid seems to indicate) that demonstrates the problem, so we can look at it.

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Posted

Hm, the reply I got in my email is not showing here, but it was:

"Select the text frames that have issues. Make sure their language is set to English in the Character panel."

That was it. 

Not sure how it got set to something like Farsi? Anyway, is there a way I can make this change for the whole document?

Posted

Even odder - when I select many of these frames, it's some middle eastern language. I change it to English, and the error persists. I click into the frame and select the word - it's some other language like French or Dutch. How can the word settings be different from the frame? How did they all get non-English in the first place?

Posted
1 hour ago, tdellaringa said:

How can the word settings be different from the frame?

It depends on how you created the frame, and how you created the text, and what styling (Character Text Style, or Paragraph Text Style, or via the Character panel) you applied to the text.

But in general setting it at the frame level only works for empty frames. If there's already text, you need to select the text to change the spelling language.

1 hour ago, tdellaringa said:

How did they all get non-English in the first place?

How did you create the document and the text?

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Posted

Ok, here's the full process to how I got here:

  • Export manuscript from Scrivener in .docx
  • Open in Mac Pages to verify, and to also size down the font since I couldn't get it to take on the font size of my paragraph style (as noted in another thread). Exported back into .docx.
  • In my Publisher doc, there's a master spread and 1 single page with no text frame.
  • Place my .docx file by dragging in a text box and then shift-click to auto flow through the whole document. 
  • Applied my body paragraph style I created, while choosing to preserve character formatting - keeping all the italics from the manuscript intact.

That's where I'm at now. 

Posted

Thanks for the workflow details.

You initially asked about the word "stopped" that was flagged as misspelled for you. When I open the .afpub file you provided earlier, that word is not flagged for me.

However, all of the sentences "John stopped." are shown as being in Danish (Character panel shows "Unknown (da-DK)". Most of the document seems to be English (US).

Perhaps you could provide the .docx file you created in Pages? And also, perhaps, the .docx file you created in Scrivener?

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Posted

Write in Scriverner translate format to 

  DOCX

    Translate format to 

      Pages translate to 

        DOCX

          Translate to Publisher

Your problem could start in any one of those lines, it could then be made worse by any later line.

This is why I try to convince people to use tagged plain text files. Rich Text is a second choice, import the rich text and change the italic and bold etc characters to Publisher Character Styles then choose the font and size to change to Paragraph Styles.

Regardless please do a minimum of text styling in the word processors.

If you want to get all the text into English just use the Character panel and select all the text and toggle the language from whatever to something else and then to English. All the words and characters will now be English.

These various languages appear to be local overrides at the character level.

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Posted

I'll do that, select all text and make English. I could have done .rtf, I just didn't think it would be an issue. As for changing the italic words to character styles - there's just no way. There's hundreds of them, and would be too time consuming. Those choices were made over the course of two years while writing, it's very organic, and Scrivener is how I write. 

Be that as it may, things are looking pretty good. I think I can fix the problem by selecting all as you say. 

Posted
1 minute ago, tdellaringa said:

As for changing the italic words to character styles - there's just no way. There's hundreds of them, and would be too time consuming. Those choices were made over the course of two years while writing, it's very organic, and Scrivener is how I write. 

Easy in Publisher

Find (blank field) use the cog wheel to choose Format and select Character Italic on.

Replace (blank field) use the cog wheel to choose Character Style > Italic 01 [this is a character style you  make yourself.

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Posted
1 hour ago, walt.farrell said:

shown as being in Danish

With the character panel in view and Language expanded, if you click on highlighted words that are correctly spelt, it will show an abundance of languages such as: French, Italian, Netherlands, Portuguese and Spanish. 

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22 minutes ago, Old Bruce said:

Easy in Publisher

Find (blank field) use the cog wheel to choose Format and select Character Italic on.

Replace (blank field) use the cog wheel to choose Character Style > Italic 01 [this is a character style you  make yourself.

Seems neat, but i get zero results. 

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Posted

try

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Posted

I think you have also chosen the Italic Character Style in the Find part. Don't. Just choose Format from the Cog Wheel and just set Italic in the Character Section of that dialog.

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Posted

Make it a check mark...

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Posted
2 hours ago, tdellaringa said:

The "fix" version is the one exported from Pages after I tweaked the font size. The other one is the raw export from Scrivener.

According to LibreOffice:

  • In the one from Scrivener, the spelling language for the first occurrence of "John stopped" is US English.
  • In the version from Pages, it is Danish.

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