Choose different languages for spell checking for individual pages

[Alexander Wolf]

Feature request:
I would like to have a choice of different languages when spell-checking. English is not my native language, still I use it a lot (like here), so I have notebooks with mixed languages.
Currently the only way to change the language is the config file, which is feasible only when having very few notes. To have a GUI element to change the language would improve the situation. The good solution is an individual language for each page. And if single words or paragraphs can be assigned a language, that would be perfect. This could be like in openoffice, there the assigned language is not displayed (the user will notice that all words are underlined).

[dotancohen (dotancohen)]

++1

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.

[Jaap Karssenberg (jaap.karssenberg)]

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 / ...

[Jaap Karssenberg (jaap.karssenberg)]

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.

[zapyon (zapyon)]

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', ..."

[Jaap Karssenberg (jaap.karssenberg)]

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

[Andreas Wehler (andreas-wehler)]

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

[Jaap Karssenberg (jaap.karssenberg)]

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