Poor quality of the spellchecker for German

[mopperle]

I'm now working since over a year intensively with Publisher (coming from Indesign) and really would have liked the spellchecker to be turned on, as it makes proofreading easier. But the quality for the German language is extremly poor. Too many words are marked as wrong, as they are not part of the dictionary. Microsoft Word and even Open Source like LibreOffice gives results ten times better then Publisher.

My current solution: typing text in LibreOffice Writer, copy&paste into Publisher, spellchecker turned off.

Hoping for an improvement in the future.

[MikeTO]

2 hours ago, mopperle said:

I'm now working since over a year intensively with Publisher (coming from Indesign) and really would have liked the spellchecker to be turned on, as it makes proofreading easier. But the quality for the German language is extremly poor. Too many words are marked as wrong, as they are not part of the dictionary. Microsoft Word and even Open Source like LibreOffice gives results ten times better then Publisher.

The German dictionaries for Affinity and LibreOffice should be identical or close to it because they both use Hunspell for spell checking and hyphenation.

You can download the latest German dictionary used by LibreOffice from this page, and select a version for Germany, Austria, or Switzerland. Affinity comes bundled with just the version for Germany.

 

[Pšenda]

As far as I know, Affinity uses Hunspell dictionaries (at least for Windows), which are the dictionaries that LibreOffice also uses. If their dictionaries have ten times more words, you could try using them.

https://github.com/LibreOffice/dictionaries

[mopperle]

Thanks guys, will check that. I always thought that Hunspell is only a spellchecker engine working with a given dictionary.

But maybe the dictionaries on the LibreOffice site are more recent then the one currently included in Publisher 2.6. Will check it.

[Pšenda]

20 minutes ago, mopperle said:

But maybe the dictionaries on the LibreOffice site are more recent then the one currently included in Publisher 2.6

Personally, I wouldn't have much hope for that - if you look at the age of the dictionaries in the referenced source for LibreOffice, it's not uncommon for them to be several years old (even thirteen years). So I would expect rather minor corrections (fixes and additions of some new words), and that's why I'm surprised that you think the checking in LibreOffice is ten times better.

P.S. You may be using the dictionary learning with specific terms in LibreOffice, which unfortunately do not transfer to APublisher - the terms must be entered again.

[mopperle]

Indeed, downloading the latest dictionaries from the LibreOffice site gave a huge improvement: errors in the same text went down to 19 from 33.

Thanks again for your help.