Just select Scottish Gaelic and your text should be spellchecked correctly. On the panel that appears - near the bottom - you should see a language dropdown. Click the tab that says "More" (the fourth one). Now open the inspector and go to the "Text" panel (marked with a "T"). Within Pages, highlight your Gaelic text. The interface is a little obscure, however. Pages 3 and 4 work very well with the spellchecker-you can work with English and Gaelic text in the same document. This is one case where the older Pages was far superior to the newer Pages versions 5 and 6 though. Can I use the spellchecker in iWork Pages? If so, how? In the spirit of open-source software I want to make something I find useful available to others, but if you think I'm going about it in the wrong way or you have suggestions as to how something about the process could be improved I'd love to hear them. I've researched the subject a bit in the past few months, but I'm a very long way from being an expert. I readily confess I am a newbie to spelling technology. What makes you think you know anything about spellcheckers? You're a fraud! I'm just grateful they've let us use the wordlist for this. The dictionary was produced for Bòrd na Gàidhlig by The European Language Initiative (TELI) and a lot of scholarship has gone into it (and will continue to go into it). I'm no linguist, only the (humble) packager. Well, I hope I didn't give the impression that the dictionary was my work. Q8 What gives you the right to tell me how to spell? You're a fraud! For a full (technical) explanation, see Happily Apple have fixed this bug with the release of Snow Leopard. It is a bug Apple introduced into their spelling framework which affects ALL external spelling extensions. Yes, and it shouldn't really be necessary. Why is closing and re-opening the application necessary after a dictionary change? It's such a nuisance! Remember to close and then re-open the application (if you're using Tiger/Leopard). See the answer above only pick the English (or "Automatically by Language") option this time. How do I make my application spell-check in English again? This is another Apple bug and applies to any OpenSpell dictionary See discussion here for more info on this. However, spell checking "Automatically by Language" will NOT work with Gaelic you have to explicitly select it from the drop-down. With the release of Snow Leopard this close-and-reopen malarky is no longer needed! Hurrah! If you're running Tiger or Leopard there is an additional step, which is a bit of a nuisance: you must close and re-open Mail for your change of dictionary to take effect. Now select the Scottish Gaelic dictionary (which should be visible). Go to the Edit menu and choose "Show Spelling and Grammar": How do I use the Gaelic spellchecker in (almost) any Mac OS X application? Ok, you should be able to use the spellchecker in (almost) any Mac OS X application. Now make sure a tick appears next to Scottish Gaelic: Open System Preferences and click the Spelling icon: What do I do now?įirst make sure you've activated the Gaelic dictionary. But my Gaelic text is still marked as mis-spelled. The two-step cocoAspell-based solution compiles the Aspell dictionary in situ, so (providing you use the PowerPC version of cocoAspell) the dictionary should work for you. I haven't a machine with those to test, however, so if you are running them and it doesn't work for you I'd appreciate it if you sent me full details of the behaviour you observe. What version of Mac OS X are you running? cocoAspell is only needed for Leopard or Tiger. I installed cocoAspell but the second download wouldn't install properly. 10.5.X means you've got Leopard, and if it says 10.4.X then you're on Tiger. If the second number is greater than 6 then you fit into the "later" category. If the dialog box that appears has 10.6.X in it (where X is any number) then you've got Snow Leopard. How do I know what version of Mac OS X I have?Ĭlick on the Apple menu (top left corner of your screen) and select "About This Mac". The installer tells me I haven't installed cocoAspell, but I have! I use OpenOffice, and I can't seem to select Scottish Gaelic as a language option. What about OpenOffice/LibreOffice on Windows? Or Linux? Or (even) Solaris? What gives you the right to tell me how to spell? You're a fraud! How do I know what version of Mac OS X I have? Some questions (and answers) that might be of use to you.
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