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Re: [TeXmacs] spell check


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  • From: Massimiliano Gubinelli <address@hidden>
  • To: address@hidden
  • Subject: Re: [TeXmacs] spell check
  • Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 16:49:16 +0200

Ciao Davide,
can you be more precise? I use spell checking every day in french and i
didn't notice any particular problem with accents.
Can you give me a procedure to reproduce in order to see the problems you are
facing?

grazie,

Massimiliano



On 27 mars 2012, at 14:52, Davide Anchisi wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I still didn't decided to go with texmacs, I'm trying now and again.
> I like the way things are done when using it, and the feeling of finished
> document when working on it.
>
> I would like to use texmacs more extensively, but small problems prevent an
> effective use.
> Things are getting better with each release, even the easiness of use and
> the documentation, but some more descriptive documentation, and/or some
> example would let to take full advantage of TexMacs possibilities. What is
> more frustrating to me is that it seems that TexMacs is rich of features...
> but hidden somewhere.
>
> Anyway, I will not give up. Here is my question.
> One and a half year ago there was a problem with spell check for accented
> letters (at least for the italian language), and still the problem is here
> (I am using version 1.0.7.15). Is there any advance, or workaround?
> The old post follows.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Davide
>
>> On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 09:30:53PM +0200, Davide Anchisi wrote:
> [...]
>
>>> The spell checker is working again.
>>> Still, remains a problem that I noticed also on previous versions of
>>> Texmacs, but I could check it for v. 1.0.7.7 only now:
>>> spell check for languages that make use of accented letters results in
>>> improper corrections.
>>> E.g. the Italian word "caffé", which is properly spelled, is signaled
>>> wrong and the suggestion is: "caffè".
>>> I get the following message on the console:
>>> TeXmacs] Launching 'aspell -a -d italian'
>>> TeXmacs] ispell error: Error: The word "?" is invalid. The character '?'
>>> (U+3F) cannot be at the beginning of a word.
>
>> ... they probably switched encodings to Unicode in the meantime.
>> I don't know to fix this bug in a reliable way (so as to work with
>> old and new versions of the italian dictionary).
>
>> So: if someone has a patch, then I will apply it.
>
> [...]
>
>> Best wishes, --Joris
>
>
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