mailing-list for TeXmacs Users

[Massimiliano Gubinelli <address@hidden>]

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
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> SEMEL (SErvizio di Messaging ELettronico) - AINF, Universita' di Udine
> 
>