I didn't notice that in the screenshot but perhaps I skimmed too quickly through your instructions to see that! My apologies if that's the case.

Lord willing, I though I might download a copy of MX-16 today and give a live session a whirl.

Regards...

Oh, that's right! But at the time, I didn't catch at all what you meant by that.

Regards...

Hi Aardvark.

I have 1.4.6 and see my dictionaries in /usr/share/myspell.

Hello

Please take a look at post #14, that should solve your problem.

Regards...

Thank you both for hanging in with me.

My dictionaries were pointing to /usr/share/myspell.

I deleted /usr/share/myspell and ~/.scribus.

I am on Fedora, so I used dnf to delete Scribus then reinstall it.

Opened Scribus and looked at Hyphenation/Spelling and found no dictionaries at all. Selected en_US from the downloadable list and it went into .scribus/dicts.

Created a new document and added a text frame filled with sample text. Checked my Default styles and ensured they were both using English.

So far, so good.

Now I chose Edit/Edit Text to bring up the Story Editor and hopefully clicked the Edit menu. As you can see from the attached image, there is no Check Spelling option.

Groan!

I can't imagine how I could have started with a cleaner system short of formatting my disk. Where to now?

"8-[

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Doug,

All I can think of is that it is possibly related to Fedora.

There are no problems with Spell Checker in Linux MInt 18 MATE.

I have these locations:

and

If you have a spare computer, install Linux Mint MATE 18.1.


Alternatively install VirtualBox on your existing computer and install LM inside that.

EDIT:

There is definitely something wrong here.

Immediately after installing Scribus 1.4.6 you should have this default location:

Hi...

Also, while using Story Editor, does pressing the "Shift + F7" keys bring anything up?

Regards...

Yes, I will try a virtual machine. Other than that, I give up! "8-[

Thanks for all the assistance anyway.

Doug,

Hopefully VirtualBox and LM 18 MATE will help solve your problem.

In addition, you can always email Martin Zaske.

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Take a look at my post above, you may not have noticed it.

Regards...

Sadly, no. "8-[

Hi...

Hmm, in that case, let us know how it works using a VM and/or what Martin Zaske has to say.

Regards...

I don't think I need to trouble Martin just yet. I downloaded a fresh Fedora 25 .iso and installed it in a virtual machine. I then installed Scribus. So far, a pristine installation. I then checked the spelling and style settings. I created a new document with a text frame containing standard text. I opened the story editor and selected the Edit menu. Surprise surprise, there was no Check Spelling option!

It looks as though the version in the Fedora repository has no spell checker installed, for reasons I cannot imagine.

I am now taking this problem to the Fedora forum. Hopefully someone there will be able to explain what is going on.

I am extremely grateful to you both for your advice and suggestions. The Linux community is a good place to be.

Kind regards,
Doug

Doug,

I thought that the whole point of installing VirtualBox was for you to then install Linux Mint 18.1 MATE, which has a functioning spell checker, not Fedora 25?

Fedora appears to be the cause of the missing spell checker.

Indeed it is.

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Your issue is a strange one as I would think software packages like Scribus would be uniform across the distributions, although I could be wrong.

Please let us know what you find out. I'd be curious to know what the issue is and what solution, if any, is successful at resolving it.

You're welcome, I hope you are able to get it resolved.

Regards...

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