Check Spelling While Typing

[Hangman]

I'm not entirely sure what the 'expected' behaviour is here but...

With 'Check Spelling While Typing' enabled, if you add a text frame and insert filler text, then start typing anywhere within that text frame, newly typed misspelt words don't show any red underline...

If you select a single paragraph from within the inserted filler text, click on the same text style already used by the text in the text styles panel or change it to a different text style only that paragraph will show red underlining for misspelt words and only once the text is escaped (i.e., no longer selected)...

If I start typing in a new text frame, misspelt words will correctly show the red underline, if I now insert filler text into the same text frame, the filler text won't show misspelt words but if I click on the same or a new text style in the text styles panel the filler text now shows the red underline for misspelt words...

I'm unsure why selecting the existing text style or changing the text style invokes 'Check Spelling'...

[walt.farrell]

1 hour ago, Hangman said:

With 'Check Spelling While Typing' enabled, if you add a text frame and insert filler text, then start typing anywhere within that text frame, newly typed misspelt words don't show any red underline...

By default, that will give you Latin-like text with Spelling Language set to None.

 

1 hour ago, Hangman said:

If you select a single paragraph from within the inserted filler text, click on the same text style already used by the text in the text styles panel or change it to a different text style only that paragraph will show red underlining for misspelt words and only once the text is escaped (i.e., no longer selected)...

I'm not sure why it's "only when no longer selected", but setting the Text Style would affect the Language settings, and thus the Spell Checking functionality.

1 hour ago, Hangman said:

If I start typing in a new text frame, misspelt words will correctly show the red underline, if I now insert filler text into the same text frame, the filler text won't show misspelt words but if I click on the same or a new text style in the text styles panel the filler text now shows the red underline for misspelt words...

Same as above.

[Hangman]

6 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

By default, that will give you Latin-like text with Spelling Language set to None.

If you create a new text frame and click 'Body' in the Text Style panel before inserting any filler text, the filler text adopts the 'Body' text style. The 'Body' text style is based on the 'Base' text style which for me adopts these settings:

So inserting filler text in this instance has the Spelling Language set to English (United Kingdom) but you still see the same results described in the first post...

[walt.farrell]

6 minutes ago, Hangman said:

If you create a new text frame and click 'Body' in the Text Style panel before inserting any filler text, the filler text adopts the 'Body' text style.

It doesn't for me. I get Body+ after inserting the Filler Text (as Filler Text), and even after Expanding it I see this as the definition:

[Hangman]

12 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

It doesn't for me. I get Body+ after inserting the Filler Text (as Filler Text), and even after Expanding it I see this as the definition:

Likewise, though it should still adopt the same Spelling Language as the 'Base' style it's based on, i.e., the only change I see to 'Body' is 'Font size: 12 pt' which I'm not sure I follow since that is the Font size used by the 'Base' style...

When you look at the Spelling Language, it shows [No Change]... but maybe I'm missing something...

[MikeTO]

Keep in mind that the text style editor is broken in this beta, you always need to click a different pane and then back to the pane you are interested in to see the actual values for the style you're editing.

[EDIT] There's a new beta now so I'm unsure which one the screen recording is of

Edited May 16, 2024 by MikeTO

[Hangman]

5 minutes ago, MikeTO said:

[EDIT] There's a new beta now so I'm unsure which one the screen recording is of

This is in the new .2463 Beta where the Text Style Editor has been fixed...

[MikeTO]

Just expand the summary at the top of Text Styles to see what's going on.

When you insert Filler Text, it applies overrides for the four Language options including setting Spelling to None. It's a little bonus feature of Filler Text. Spelling is set to None so you don't see a big sea of red squiggles and hyphenation is set to Latin so the filler text can be hyphenated properly. I only figured this out recently, whoever coded it did this quite nicely. This is why the latin hyphenation dictionary is included in the package.

[Hangman]

With both you and Walt and now understand why it's doing what it's doing, thanks for clarifying...

[Alfred]

2 hours ago, MikeTO said:

hyphenation is set to Latin so the filler text can be hyphenated properly

A nice touch. 👍