[texworks] spelleck in texworks

[Paul A Norman]

HI Arthur,

There are a few things in the *TeX family and tools that are not at all
WYSIWYG GUI like :-)
(There is of course  "LyX – The Document Processor" - https://www.lyx.org/ )

I have found even with large documents, actually scrolling through them
looking for the spellcheck marker, is much faster than having a spell-check
dialogue, as the kinds of things we all tend to do in *TeX contain many
things (one offs that are correct) particularly that will not be in a spell
checker dictionary file, or be reoccuring things worth teaching a spell
checker to learn.

Scrolling the source document(s), lets you quickly by-pass such things, and
focus on what you need to.  More in the WYSIWYM
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WYSIWYM> way of thinking.

(Just make sure that you have the best language version (dialect)
dictionary available from LibreOffice or where ever for your language
usage, to start with.)

Someone here some years ago, had looked at doing a TWscript dialogue (quite
doable possibly), to achieve what you are asking about, but I am not sure
how far they bothered taking it in the end, or whether the API back end was
in place for it?

Maybe the whole thing is natively implemented in a newer version of
TeXworks which I have not yet tried? :-)

Kind regards,
Paul

On Tue, 21 Sept 2021 at 09:06, Arthur Mutambara <arthur_mutambara at yahoo.com>
wrote:

> Paul
>
> thanks. i already have what is refered in 4.3; where a mispelt word is
> underlined in red. mine is a long document, i can't walk through the 1000 +
> pages looking for underlined words.
>
> is there a way to RUN spell check for the tex document as done with WORD
> such that the system looks for the underlined words and take you to the
> word to correct it
>
> thanks
>
> On Monday, September 20, 2021, 02:00:26 PM GMT+2, Paul A Norman <
> paul.a.norman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hi Arthur,
>
> Good to see that you've got everything going.
>
> Have a look in the TeXworks manual, I think it's still under Section
> number:
> "4.3 Spell-checking".
>
> Get back if that doesn't help enough.
>
> Kind regards,
> Paul
>
> On Monday, 20 September 2021, Arthur Mutambara <arthur_mutambara at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> > I have a long tex document. How do use spellcheck for the document
> > thanks
> >
> > On Monday, September 20, 2021, 09:39:20 AM GMT+2, Arthur Mutambara via
> texworks <texworks at tug.org> wrote:
> >
> > problem solved. i reinstalled miktex
> >
> >
> > On Sunday, September 19, 2021, 10:47:05 PM GMT+2, Paul A Norman <
> paul.a.norman at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Arthur,
> >
> > Before looking at your .tex file, what is the history of your problem
> please?
> >
> > What system are you on, and how have you got your copy of TeXworks?
> >
> >>"i am trying to reinstall texlive with no success
> >
> > You can not install TexLive at all?
> >
> > When/how were you last able to get your document to open and compile?
> >
> > Anything relevant you can say about the history of all this will help
> please.
> >
> > Kind regards,
> >
> > Paul
> >
> > On Sunday, 19 September 2021, Arthur Mutambara <
> arthur_mutambara at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >> i am failing t open my tex file. i have reinstalled texworks still no
> joy. i am trying to reinstall texlive with no success
> >> please assist
> >> find attached the tex filr
> >>
> >> On Wednesday, June 30, 2021, 09:05:53 PM GMT+2, Paul A Norman <
> paul.a.norman at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Julia,
> >>
> >> When I first saw your message it looked like it might be a permissions
> "user" privledges issue.
> >>
> >> If this has run properly for you before, (and you have done nothing you
> know of to change your set up or permissions levels) you could just try
> updating your MiKteX installation (from within MiKTeX).
> >>
> >> If this is the very first time you are trying to compile a .tex to .pdf
> on your setup, then your problem may be that you installed MiKTeX (and
> TeXworks) as one "user" with its privledges and permissions, and are now
> trying to actually use TeXworks/MiKTeX as another "user" with its
> permissions/ priveldges level.
> >>
> >> There is an older discussion of this kind of problem here:
> >>
> >>
> https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/264396/error-with-log4cxx#270461
> >>
> >> And if the suggestions there do not help you, you may get more direct
> help working it through afresh on somewhere like
> >> https://tex.stackexchange.com
> >>
> >> Paul
> >>
> >> On Thursday, 1 July 2021, Julia Matos <julia.matos at gm.com> wrote:
> >>> Hello!
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> I am having trouble using Miktex 2.9, when I click to generate the
> PDF, there is a error message and no pdf is generated, this is the message
> that is shown:
> >>>
> >>> I click this green “play” button:
> >>>
> >>>
> </mail/u/0/s/?view=att&th=17a5ddd1f3be9c08&attid=0.1&disp=emb&zw&atsh=1>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> And these messages show below:
> >>>
> >>>
> </mail/u/0/s/?view=att&th=17a5ddd1f3be9c08&attid=0.2&disp=emb&zw&atsh=1>
> >>>
> >>> Can you help me please?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Thank you!
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> ----- configuration info -----
> >>> TeXworks version : 0.6.1r.3614278 (MiKTeX 2.9.6100 64-bit)
> >>> Install location :
> C:/apps/opentoolsuite/runtime/dos/miktex/2.9/miktex/bin/x64/texworks.exe
> >>> Library path     :
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> >>> pdfTeX location  :
> C:/apps/opentoolsuite/runtime/dos/miktex/2.9/miktex/bin/x64/pdftex.exe
> >>> Operating system : Windows 10 Enterprise, 64-bit, build 18363
> >>> Qt version      : 5.6.0 (build) / 5.6.0 (runtime)
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