Spellchecking while writing

[Welsbach]

I'd like to use spellchecking while writing, I mean: I want to see the red line if there is a mistake and the option to correct the mistake. Is this possible? The help file says nothing about this feature on the iPad. (I guess this is because there is no help file for the iPad version...) I can see the red lines, but how can i correct the mistake? (I know: I can type the word in the correct form, but I'm used from other software to get a menu from wich I can select the right word.)

[walt.farrell]

7 minutes ago, Welsbach said:

I guess this is because there is no help file for the iPad version..

The Help menu within the app gives you the iPad Help, or you can get it at https://affinity.help online.

Which of the Affinity applications are you using, and V1 or V2?

[Welsbach]

It doesn’t give teh iPad help, at least not in this point. I use V2.

[walt.farrell]

3 minutes ago, Welsbach said:

It doesn’t give teh iPad help

Which "it"? In the app, or on the website? I know the website does, and the in-app version does, too, the last time I looked.

Can you provide a screenshot?

[Welsbach]

OK. I found it. But the help doesn't help. It says, I shall select from the context menu. But there is no context menu for selecting the right word. I just can copy, paste, cut and so on. that’s all.

[walt.farrell]

1 hour ago, Welsbach said:

But there is no context menu for selecting the right word.

There should be, if you tap the underlined word. For example:

 

[Welsbach]

It is not there. But that’s not the biggest problem with Publisher on the iPad. I can ignore it because this was the last time I looked on the iPad version of Publisher.

Thank you anyway for your help.

[walt.farrell]

1 hour ago, Welsbach said:

It is not there.

You're welcome.

Perhaps you haven't enabled Spell Checking (which I neglected to mention but which is in the main entry for Spelling in the Help: https://affinity.help/publisher2ipad/en-US.lproj/pages/Text/spelling.html ) and which you can see in this video I just prepared: 

 

 

[Welsbach]

Spell checking is enabled. If not, the red line wouldn’t appear. I attach a screen shot which shows the context menu. You see: It simply doesn’t work as promised. So let’s close the discussion. Thank you for trying to help, but things are as they are.

[walt.farrell]

7 hours ago, Welsbach said:

So let’s close the discussion.

Or, we could try to resolve your problem, or at least figure it out so perhaps Serif can resolve it in the future. If you'd indulge me and spend a bit more time, perhaps?

Thanks for the screenshot. It looks like you have your iPad in Portrait mode. If I orient mine that way (and remove the keyboard) I still have the spelling options in the Context menu (see below).

Your Context menu seems to be offering copy/cut kinds of options and a web-search option, which I don't get at all within Publisher. Do you know why you're getting those? I don't understand enough about the iPad to know if there's an option that would enable that. Or do you have some third-party application that does it, which might be interfering with Publisher's functions?

 

 

[Welsbach]

I don’t know why I get these options. This is just the question. I guess it’s because the app offers this menu. There is no difference in landscape mode.

But we waste already too much time for this issue. It was just by accident that I had the idea to look, if this feature now works. I would like to use publisher on iPad for some smaller things, when I use Publisher on my Mac. But will not happen too early. At first it must be ready. Especially the book feature and the import of files with style sheets must be so that one can use them. May be with version 3. And may be than it works on the iPad as expected. For now it’s enough to know that it is as before.

Once more: Thank you for trying to help. It’s not your fault (I believe....)

[MikeTO]

On 12/4/2023 at 2:23 PM, Welsbach said:

It is not there.

If you're asking why the red underline isn't appearing for a misspelled word, there is a bug in macOS Sonoma in which the red underlining sometimes fails to appear for misspelled words. This bug is not in Publisher but in macOS so Serif can't fix it. If it's a bug in macOS it's likely also present in iPadOS given how much they have in common.

On 12/5/2023 at 6:52 AM, walt.farrell said:

Your Context menu seems to be offering copy/cut kinds of options and a web-search option, which I don't get at all within Publisher. Do you know why you're getting those?

I don't know much about Affinity for iPadOS but I believe that's the context menu you see if you long-press on text that is spelled [EDIT] incorrectly.

Edited December 31, 2023 by MikeTO
correction in red

[walt.farrell]

On 12/5/2023 at 6:31 PM, MikeTO said:

I don't know much about Affinity for iPadOS but I believe that's the context menu you see if you long-press on text that is spelled correctly.

Thanks. Yes, I get those options in the context menu with a long-press on correctly-spelled text. But that seems odd given that in the screenshot from @Welsbach the word is underlined in red showing it is misspelled.

 

[MikeTO]

6 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

Thanks. Yes, I get those options in the context menu with a long-press on correctly-spelled text. But that seems odd given that in the screenshot from @Welsbach the word is underlined in red showing it is misspelled.

Sorry, I had a typo, I should have written this is the context menu you get when you long press on incorrectly spelled words.

With incorrectly spelled words, the context menu has spelling suggestions plus ignore and learn. With correctly spelled words, the context menu offers commands for deselect, cut, copy, paste, link, insert filler text, and convert to field.

[walt.farrell]

16 minutes ago, MikeTO said:

With correctly spelled words, the context menu offers commands for deselect, cut, copy, paste, link, insert filler text, and convert to field

Yes, but why does Weisbach get them with an incorrectly spelled word?

[MikeTO]

3 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

Yes, but why does Weisbach get them with an incorrectly spelled word?

I don't know but I bet it's for the same reason that macOS sometimes doesn't show spelling options for underlined words and sometimes doesn't underline misspelled words - Apple's implementation of Hunspell is buggy. It probably worked properly at one time but became unreliable at some point over the years. This is an area where Windows users may be better off because Serif implemented Hunspell on their own rather than relying on the OS.