Choose different languages for spell checking for individual pages

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My native language is not English, either, and having spell check on each language would be great. Actually, I'd like to be able to enable _two_ dictionaries are once, so that I would not need to manually switch dictionaries.

See notes in HACKING notebook in python source. Proper implementation would be to auto-detect language being used instead of having configuration per notebook / page / paragraph / ...

Update: recent (?) version of gtkspell allow the user to modify the language through the context menu, would be great if zim could just remember the last selected language for a page. Unfortunately there is no interface to request the language from gtkspell. So need to re-create gtkspell using enchant bindings directly for this.

May be it is feasible to add a declaration for a page's langauge somewhere in the head(er).

Similarly, a paragraph's or line's language might be set by putting something like ":de:" at the start of the content (using something like "* :de:" for lists or ""=== :de:" for headlines.

This might even make it possible to exclude text from spellchecking (e.g. ":none:") or change the language several times within a line, e.g. "The word 'house' in several languages: German: :de: 'Haus', Dutch: :nl: 'huis', French :fr: 'maison', ..."

On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 1:24 PM, zapyon <email address hidden> wrote:
> May be it is feasible to add a declaration for a page's langauge
> somewhere in the head(er).

Yes, this is feasible.

> Similarly, a paragraph's or line's language might be set by putting
> something like ":de:" at the start of the content (using something like
> "* :de:" for lists or ""=== :de:" for headlines.
>
> This might even make it possible to exclude text from spellchecking
> (e.g. ":none:") or change the language several times within a line, e.g.
> "The word 'house' in several languages: German: :de: 'Haus', Dutch: :nl:
> 'huis', French :fr: 'maison', ..."

No, this is not feasible. Or at least not with the current spellcheck
library. The library simply does not allow for this level of control.

Regards,

Jaap

Hi.

Often I have to toggle between English and German within a single page.
So it would be super to select the spell language in a 1-of-m manner.

For inspiration see thunderbird's solution (small snapshot).

Thanks a lot,

    Andreas

Andreas, language selection toggle should be in the context menu of the page. This report is about storing the language selected per page.

Regards,

Jaap