Re: iWork & spell checking problems
Re: iWork & spell checking problems
- Subject: Re: iWork & spell checking problems
- From: Douglas Davidson <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 14:07:08 -0800
On 2005-02-04 11:08:55 -0800 Otto Räsänen <email@hidden> wrote:
> I ported a Finnish spell checking program called Soikko to Mac OS X about a
> your ago. The program has worked quite well so far, but with Pages there are
> problems.
>
> Pages has a Spelling panel like many other Cocoa applications, and Soikko
> shows up in spelling panel´s Dictionary pop-up, just like it should. However,
> Pages also has More pane in Text Inspector, where you can choose a language
> for the spelling dictionary to use. In that pop-up my spelling dictionary is
> not visible. Any ideas what might be wrong?
This sounds like an issue with Pages. Pages uses a system whereby portions of the text are labelled with the language to be used for spellchecking; the popup in the spelling panel is ignored.
> Another problem I have had (even before Pages), is that I have not figured
> out how to make my spell checking program work with multilingual spell
> checking. "Multilingual" is one of the choices in spelling panel´s Dictionary
> pop-up, but it only seems to use Apple's own dictionaries. Could these two
> problems be somehow related?
"Multilingual" is an option provided by Apple's built-in AppleSpell spellchecker; as such it can make use only of the spellchecking available within that spellchecker.
Douglas Davidson
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