[OS X TeX] Multi-languages typesetting

[Herbert Schulz]

> On Aug 27, 2015, at 7:15 AM, Berend Hasselman <bhh at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On 27 Aug 2015, at 13:43, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Aug 27, 2015, at 3:08 AM, Jean-Claude DE SOZA <jeanclaudedesoza at orange.fr> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Bonjour to all the members of the list,
>>> 
>>> I'am typesetting a book of recipes of my old aunt written in Vietnamese and French. 
>>> Accentuation is very important in Vietnamese and I want the file to be spellchecked in Vietnamese but also in French. I use CocoAspell.
>>> So I put at its beginning the classic :
>>> 
>>>> %!TEX TS-program = pdflatex
>>>> %!TeX spellcheck = French [80]
>>>> %!TeX spellcheck = Vietnamese
>>>> \documentclass[11pt]{book}
>>>> %========= encodages ==========%
>>>> \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
>>>> \usepackage[T1,T5]{fontenc}
>>>> \usepackage[french,vietnam]{babel}
>>> 
>>> I put French as my main language and Vietnamese as the second in the package babel as you note it.
>>> 
>>> But the text in French is spellchecked in Vietnamese and is obviously full of errors. It seems that only the second language in the preamble works.
>>> 
>>> My question is: "Is it possible to have two or more languages spellchecked with CocoAspell?"
>>> 
>>> Jean-Claude DE SOZA
>>> jeanclaudedesoza at orange.fr
>> 
>> Howdy,
>> 
>> I believe CocoAspell can only load one dictionary at a time. IT actually runs under the Apple Spell Check system and even that one may only load one Dictionary at a time.
>> 
> 
> I have English and Dutch as Preferred Languages in the Language&Region section of System Preferences.
> In Mail, TextEdit and BBEdit (and possibly more) Apple Spell Check does multilingual spellchecking.
> 
> Berend

Howdy,

Hmmm... then, maybe, it should work for CocoAspell too.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)