11-07-2022, 02:05 PM | #1 |
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Spellcheck no longer works
My spellcheck in Editor has stopped working over the last few updates.
Did I somehow turn it off? I've gone into settings, and everything looks alright. Spellcheck had been working for many years. |
11-07-2022, 05:15 PM | #2 |
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Check the configuration folder; dictionaries and see if there are multiple entries AND a JSON file |
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11-07-2022, 08:36 PM | #3 |
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(Another guess) :
For all books ? (I mean : Did you try with another book ?) If not, maybe the language of the culprit is not defined correctly (in the opf or in the header of the html pages). |
11-07-2022, 11:21 PM | #4 |
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11-08-2022, 02:11 AM | #6 | |
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Is Spellcheck window displayed ? My guess is that the Spellcheck window is out of sight, it's non-modal so you will still have access to the main window. If you use Windows try these tricks ==>> Move a Lost, Off-Screen Window Back to Your Desktop[ BR |
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11-08-2022, 01:19 PM | #7 | |
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.The Spellcheck window opens and says there are no misspelled words |
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11-08-2022, 04:39 PM | #8 | |
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If it is, go to Edit->Preferences->Editor settings->Manage spelling dictionaries. If you get this: …then ot would seem you have 'lost' the default English and Spanish spelling dictionaries. Simplest way to get them back is to reinstall calibre - that means an uninstall and new install - you wont lose any libraries or preference settings in doing that. Which operating system do you use - Windows, Linux or MacOS? BR |
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I have uninstalled and reinstalled Calibre a couple times, with no affect. I went out to https://extensions.libreoffice.org/e...h-dictionaries and downloaded the newest English dictionary and added them as new. Didn't do anything. |
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11-08-2022, 09:35 PM | #10 | |
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I've added Australian and French dictionaries so mine has this: A freshly installed Calibre Portable has this: BR |
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11-09-2022, 04:07 PM | #11 | |
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It's weird, I opened up another EPUB and Spellcheck works with it! Is there something that can be set on an EPUB so it won't allow spellcheck? I know the others that I opened had spelling errors, but couldn't find them. |
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11-09-2022, 04:53 PM | #12 | |
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If it is only happening on particular books then the language is probably specified incorrectly within the book, at the top of the text files, you should see something like this:
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<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> When I changed a book to this: Code:
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="pl" xml:lang="pl"> Quote:
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11-09-2022, 09:44 PM | #13 |
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In addition, see the setting for dc:language in the opf metadata of the epub.
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11-10-2022, 01:41 AM | #14 |
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When I added lang="EN-us" xml:lang="EN-us" to the second line of an EPUB file that spellcheck didn't work in before, it started working on that file.
But I checked one of the files where Spellcheck does work, and it had no lang= statement. ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ |
11-10-2022, 01:50 AM | #15 |
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