Spell Check?

[evtonic3]

Is there really a spell checker in AD? I have tested with misspelled words and the app doesn't seem to recognize them.

[Madame]

Same here. 

It's useful when I write English, but when I type in my own language, it's a little disturbing. 

[Dave Harris]

There is a spell checker. It can underline mis-spelt words as you type. If this isn't working, check that it is enabled (Text > Spelling > Check Spelling While Typing) and that the caret is not in the mis-spelt word (it waits until you have finished typing the word before checking it). Then check that the text language is set as you expect, at the bottom of the Character Studio tab. Imported text can sometimes get its language set to None, in which case it cannot detect spelling errors. You can also check the document in batch mode if you prefer, using options in the Text > Spelling menu.

 

The spell checker uses the standard OS X dictionaries. Madame, what do you find disturbing about it?

[Madame]

Just visually. All the underlining under all the Norwegian words. I use Norwegian and English every day.

 

It's very useful when I type English though. I'll just have to decide if I want it on or not I think.

[evtonic3]

There is a spell checker. It can underline mis-spelt words as you type. If this isn't working, check that it is enabled (Text > Spelling > Check Spelling While Typing) and that the caret is not in the mis-spelt word (it waits until you have finished typing the word before checking it). Then check that the text language is set as you expect, at the bottom of the Character Studio tab. Imported text can sometimes get its language set to None, in which case it cannot detect spelling errors. You can also check the document in batch mode if you prefer, using options in the Text > Spelling menu.

 

The spell checker uses the standard OS X dictionaries. Madame, what do you find disturbing about it?

Thanks Dave. I went back and did my own typing in AD and it works fine. I had copy pasted text from another app and it doesn't spell check that way. Maybe in a future update.

[Dave Harris]

Just visually. All the underlining under all the Norwegian words. I use Norwegian and English every day.

Are you setting the language for Norwegian text to Norway? If you don't have Norwegian dictionaries, you can set it to None.

[Madame]

I'm not sure I understand the first part of your question.
It's very useful for me to have the English spell check, not necessary to check the Norwegian.

[Dave Harris]

Each character of text has a language attribute. Words are spell-checked in the language of the first character of the word. You can have English words checked against an English spelling dictionary, and Norwegian words checked against a Norwegian dictionary, if you set each word to have the appropriate language. You can change which language a piece of text has, by using the Character panel. Does that make sense?

[Madame]

Oh, I found it. Neat. That was way beyond my skills.
Thank you.
 

[Elise Kleve]

I'm using Affinity Publisher ver 1.8.3 but spelling errors are not detected :

 

This is the current spell-check settings:

[walt.farrell]

8 hours ago, Elise Kleve said:

I'm using Affinity Publisher ver 1.8.3 but spelling errors are not detected

The more important question is, if you place the text cursor in one of those words, then look in the Character studio panel, what spelling language is specified?

It may also be important to know what OS you use, what language you have your system set to use, and what language you have specified for the Publisher User Interface (UI) in its Preferences (General tab).

 

[Elise Kleve]

58 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

The more important question is, if you place the text cursor in one of those words, then look in the Character studio panel, what spelling language is specified?

I have inserted filler texts all throughout my work and why is everything is now set to Latin?

It's good that Publisher has this option but it's more helpful if the app can automatically detect the language.

[Alfred]

9 minutes ago, Elise Kleve said:

I have inserted filler texts all throughout my work and why is everything is now set to Latin?

The filler text may look like Latin, but it isn’t really! It’s Lorem Ipsum.

[thomaso]

18 minutes ago, Elise Kleve said:

why is everything is now set to Latin?

The reason is the origin of the filler text. (see Alfred's link)
So the purpose is to enable hyphenation for this filler text.

Note: in the apps Preferences > Filler Text you may enter your custom filler text + select its language.

[Elise Kleve]

14 hours ago, Alfred said:

The filler text may look like Latin, but it isn’t really! It’s Lorem Ipsum.

 

14 hours ago, thomaso said:

The reason is the origin of the filler text. (see Alfred's link)
So the purpose is to enable hyphenation for this filler text.

Note: in the apps Preferences > Filler Text you may enter your custom filler text + select its language.

 

Yeah, I know what Lorem Ipsum is. What I am asking is why Publisher automatically sets all the subsequent texts that I created into Latin when they are completely written in English?
This is not helpful at all since we naturally use filler texts when we start creating compositions and write the real content afterwards. Automatic language detection for spell-check should work once the content is changed.

[Alfred]

8 hours ago, Elise Kleve said:

Automatic language detection for spell-check should work once the content is changed.

There is no language detection in the Affinity apps. The spellcheck language depends on your (default OS or custom) settings.

[thomaso]

8 hours ago, Elise Kleve said:

Automatic language detection for spell-check should work

I don't have an "Auto" option for spell-check. For filler text it is set to "None". – To me "Auto" is available only in the menus for Hyphenation and Typography.

But I agree concerning the Hypenation language:
In a text frame set to Auto it appears to get set to Latin if filler text gets placed and, – unfortunately – sticks to Latin and needs to get reset manually to Auto if text in a different language got typed with manually selected as spell-check language:

In this screenshot also another issue is visible: although the selected characters in the middle text frame have different Spelling languages assigned the Character Panel appears to show the first only (None, because filler text/Latin).

v183 spell&hyph language Auto vs Latin.afpub

Currently it appears like a bug to me. I haven't tried the Auto option yet with another language change than with filler text and its Latin.