Learn spelling for the whole text + Belgian French dictionary

[Hussard64]

When I imported my text from Word, I notice that the language character are set to Unknown (fr-BE) meaning French Belgian. Where can I find this dictionary to install?

When doing the preflight check I receive tons of Spelling Mistake warning mainly on family name or location names (see screenshot with red underlined texts). I will be very cumbersome to learn them one by one. I know this are only warnings but is it possible to select all the texts in a text frame and perform Learn Spelling only once to apply on Spelling mistakes ?

[Alfred]

21 minutes ago, Hussard64 said:

Unknown (fr-BE) meaning French Belgian

Or rather, Belgian French: in other words, French as spoken in Belgium. (Just like en-GB and en-US, which mean British English and American English, respectively.)

24 minutes ago, Hussard64 said:

is it possible to select all the texts in a text frame and perform Learn Spelling only once

That would be very risky! What if « Ferraris » was meant to be « Ferrari » and « Beaumacheck » was meant to be « Beaumarchais »? I really think you need to tell the app which individual ‘mistakes’ are words to be learned.

[Oufti]

Je profite de l'occasion pour répondre en français… 

Affinity tient compte de la langue choisie dans ses propres préférences (français, en l'occurrence) mais s'appuie sur la région définie dans les préférences/ réglages système (Belgique). Quand il ne trouve pas de dictionnaire correspondant à cette combinaison (ici fr-BE), il indique que la langue est inconnue.

Pour éviter ces avertissements fallacieux, on peut créer un dossier nommé fr-BE — dans le dossier Spelling de sa bibliothèque utilisateur, pour macOS ; je ne sais où pour Windows — dans lequel on place une copie du dictionnaire de césure fr-FR, renommée en fr-BE (hyph_fr_BE.dic). Au premier niveau dudit dossier Spelling, on place également une copie renommée des dictionnaires fr.aff et fr.dic. 

 

Voir ce message pour plus de détails : 

Cela dit, quel que soit le dictionnaire, les noms propres requerront presque toujours un apprentissage manuel… 

[Hussard64]

Merci Oufti pour votre réponse. J'avais également découvert le post que vous mettez en référence. Effectivement, à défaut de dictionnaires fr-BE, on copie les français, mais est-ce à dire que les dictionnaires fr-BE n'existent pas ?

Encore merci.

Frank

[Hussard64]

Hi Alfred,

I presume that if you want to apply a "Learn Spelling" to a whole selection, only the terms underlined in red will be take into consideration. All those terms are ok for Frencj speaking persons as they are mainly family names of persons or places for instance.

So you confirm that such possibility does not exist, but going one by one it too heavy, they are hundreds of terms underlined.

 

Thanks,
Frank

[Alfred]

15 minutes ago, Hussard64 said:

So you confirm that such possibility does not exist, but going one by one it too heavy, they are hundreds of terms underlined.

I believe you’re correct, Frank. Malheureusement !

[Oufti]

54 minutes ago, Hussard64 said:

est-ce à dire que les dictionnaires fr-BE n'existent pas ?

 

Non, du moins pas à ma connaissance… 

[David in Яuislip]

This is how windows V1 works
Main dictionaries are in C:\Program Files\Affinity\Publisher\Resources\Dictionaries
User dictionaries are in C:\ProgramData\Affinity\Common\1.0\Dictionaries
and these supplement the main ones for the selected language

I'm using en-GB so I create C:\ProgramData\Affinity\Common\1.0\Dictionaries\en-GB

This can contain multiple dic files which must have a matching aff so I have
C:\ProgramData\Affinity\Common\1.0\Dictionaries\en-GB>dir /B
places.aff
places.dic
stuff.aff
stuff.dic

These four files are in the zip. The aff files are very basic and the contents are identical

You should be able to copy your underlined words to a text file, one word per line and beginning with the count
Good luck

en-GBextras.zip