Thread: Spell check

Is there an enable selection for a spell checker? Thanks....

Not as far as I know. It used to work for me in forum posts but not for a long time. I know that it still works for some people. Might depend on your choice of browser ...... OS .... ? What I do is copy my text into an email in thunderbird and spell check there. Make corrections, copy it and paste it back in the SRP text box before I post. Not the most convenient workaround, but it'll have to do until whatever bug is fixed.

OS: Linux Mint 11 (Ubuntu-derived)
Browser: Firefox 28.0
Browser Preferences: (Note the last option in "Browsing")



Also, check your OS installation for the required dictionaries. Here's the command (and results) for mine:

horen@minteee ~ $ dpkg -l|grep spell
ii aspell 0.60.6-6 GNU Aspell spell-checker
ii aspell-en 6.0-0-6ubuntu1 English dictionary for GNU Aspell
ii dictionaries-common 1.9.3ubuntu1 Common utilities for spelling dictionary tools
ii hunspell-en-ca 1:3.3.0-2ubuntu2 English_canadian dictionary for hunspell
ii hunspell-en-us 20070829-4ubuntu1 English_american dictionary for hunspell
ii libaspell15 0.60.6-6 GNU Aspell spell-checker runtime library
ii libenchant1c2a 1.6.0-2 a wrapper library for various spell checker engines
ii libgtk2-spell-perl 1.03-5 Perl interface to the GtkSpell library
ii libgtkspell0 2.0.16-1 a spell-checking addon for GTK's TextView widget
ii libhunspell-1.2-0 1.2.14-4 spell checker and morphological analyzer (shared library)
ii myspell-en-au 2.1-5 English_australian dictionary for myspell
ii myspell-en-gb 1:3.3.0-2ubuntu2 English_british dictionary for myspell
ii myspell-en-za 1:3.3.0-2ubuntu2 English_southafrican dictionary for myspell
ii python-gtkspell 2.25.3-7ubuntu2 Python bindings for the GtkSpell library

Yeah I don't know of a single operating system that doesn't have a spell check option. Of course, I find the spell check in Word the best as it has a grammar function too.

My only other suggestion is SRP, itself -- Settings:General Settings:Miscellaneous Options

Originally Posted by JBHoren

My only other suggestion is SRP, itself -- Settings:General Settings:Miscellaneous Options

That is enabled on my account ........ It is unimportant to me. As long as I have a viable workaround, and I do. The puzzling thing is that I have other v-bulletin forum accounts in which spell check does work.

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

That is enabled on my account ........ It is unimportant to me. As long as I have a viable workaround, and I do. The puzzling thing is that I have other v-bulletin forum accounts in which spell check does work.

Next step: See if spell-check works from a "test" account (new user, without any previous configuration -- browser or otherwise).

• If spell-check works, it's a user-configuration issue

If I spell something wrong it underlines it on my browser.
I right click on the word and it gives me the options to change...

Originally Posted by earcutter

Yeah I don't know of a single operating system that doesn't have a spell check option. Of course, I find the spell check in Word the best as it has a grammar function too.

Safari browser has both also. Access via "Edit" menu.
Maybe other browsers do too ?
Don't think OS determines browser spell checks.

Hay, eye have a solution