Adding dictionaries

[Josan]

Hi. My english is very limited, sorry.

I work with bilingual documents: Spanish and Basque. How can I add Basque? Preflight points out all the words in Basque as errors.

[walt.farrell]

You can find general instructions for adding dictionaries to Publisher 2 here:

However, while that describes the mechanics of adding them, the Basque dictionaries are not provided there (or in the usual places we look for them).

I have found some dictionaries for Basque that may work: eu-ES.zip

You should be able to unzip that file into the Dictionary folder used by the Affinity applications. To find that folder, open Settings in the application, go to the Tools panel, and at the bottom you'll see this:

Click on Open, and unzip that file into that directory. Do not make any changes to the Settings. Just Open the Dictionaries folder and unzip the file I provided. Then restart Publisher and you should be able mark text as Basque for spell-checking using the Language setting in the Character panel. Automatic hyphenation will not be possible.

You may want to create a Text Style for marking text as Basque more easily.

[Andreas CH]

Ich kenne das auch und erstelle für jede Sprache (bei mir Deutsch und Französisch) eigene Textstile. In den Stilen lege ich die jeweilige Sprache fest.

I know this too and create separate text styles for each language (German and French for me). I specify the respective language in the styles.

Yo también lo sé y creo estilos de texto distintos para cada idioma (alemán y francés en mi caso). Especifico el idioma respectivo en los estilos.

[Josan]

Affinity already includes French and German dictionaries. This does not happen with Basque (Euskara). I have done my experiments and have managed to install some Basque dictionaries, but I would like if there is an “official” way to do it.

[walt.farrell]

1 minute ago, Josan said:

Affinity already includes French and German dictionaries. This does not happen with Basque. 

There are many dictionaries that are not included. Just look at that FAQ.

[Josan]

Sorry, I hadn't seen your previous response. Thank you so much.