Spell Check

[steve.ledger]

I tried tiny spell a little while ago and it works very well until you realise it doesn’t cope with anything but American spelling.....

Download attached UKeng.zip - extract two files and overwrite the .LEX and .SUP file which were installed with TinySpell.

Color then comes up as an error

[spondoolix]

sledger,

Many thanks for the UKeng zip, most useful. However, I have to admit, that by now I have added so many words to the TinySpell dictionary, that it handles both American and Standard English with equal aplomb.

[Squeaky]

Thanks Lads. Excellent tip. I've just installed and may well upgrade to the paid version!

[-=Drifter=-]

Yup, once again, thanks Sledger. Cool little program.

[remi]

It seems, Inkscape offers now a built-in spell checker:
http://www.nabble.com/NEW%3A-spell-c...d22071311.html

Perhaps it's time for the Xara developers to rise in rank...

Remi

[ginger44]

Thanks for the link, this will be really useful, as I can't get the spell checker in Thunderbird to work.

Yvonne

[Burpee]

Spell checkers are great but they still can't catch words used in the wrong places....like:
your - you're, than - then, accept - except, too - to, they're - their -there

I blame spell checkers for the rampant missuse of words

[iamtheblues]

I blame spell checkers for the rampant missuse of words

I coud not agree more. They encourage laziness and indeed, ignorance.
Given than the English language is full of heterographs, it is this fact alone that makes spellcheckers worse than useless.
Solo mis dos centimos.
Saludos,
Bob

[remi]

Yes, life is hard.

But we need a spell checker within Xara Xtreme, this is what this thread is about...

Remi

[Nostaw]

I copy and paste text from emails, word and simple text files. So ideally, mispelled words should be underlined red in a document when opening a xara document or pasting text, not only when it's typed in on the fly.

I desperately need also a text search and text replace function within Xara.