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• • February 7, 2017 at 10:52 am #92026
    Sarah Rankin

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    I am encountering a brand new and puzzling issue. I am revising a book that was copy/line edited AFTER production in ID (oy), resulting in many hundreds of changes and additions. I am revising in InCopy. Both are updated to the latest versions, and I am on a Mac, running OS X 10.11.6. (Not ready to take the 10.12 plunge quite yet.)

    The issue is this (for both ID and IC): when I run spell check, many words are flagged that shouldn’t be–like “We” or “had” or “mansion,” etc. When I check the dictionary in the spelling panel, the language for the inappropriately flagged words is usually Reform German. However, some say English US, but when I click Dictionary, it will indicate German Reform (or other random languages like Portuguese, Danish, or Italian.) All should be English US. In addition, I have dynamic spelling turned on, and most of these words are not red-underlined, though some are, and some that are underlined aren’t flagged when I run spell check. They are usually German: 2006 Reform. Obviously, this is rendering spell check virtually useless!

    I have checked and rechecked all my language defaults, in IC/ID and in my system preferences. I have checked and rechecked the paragraph style language. I have checked and rechecked the dictionary setting in ID/IC prefs. Everything is set to English US! I have changed the Hunspell dictionary setting to proximity and back. I have restarted my computer, done a “save as” with the file. The problem remains. I have copied some of the text into a new IC document, reset it in a different font–same issue.

    Any suggestions? I am at a total loss.

  • February 7, 2017 at 11:02 am #92027
    Sarah Rankin

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    Update: I decided to run a search/replace for any text in German: 2006 Reform, and for some reason, almost all opening quotation marks were in German. A search for Italian text is revealing randomly applied throughout the doc.

    ????

  • February 7, 2017 at 11:46 am #92033
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    Maybe select all the text and click the Remove Overrides button at the bottom of the Paragraph Styles panel? And make sure there are no character styles applied to those characters?

  • February 7, 2017 at 12:14 pm #92037
    Sarah Rankin

    Member

    Thanks for the response, David. I didn’t want to do that since there are some character styles applied for some words and phrases in Spanish (and some of those characters were affected as well).

    What finally worked was doing the search/replace for German, Portuguese, Italian, and Danish characters and replacing with English USA. I set the Spanish character style language to Spanish, and when those popped up, I could apply the style and get rid of the random languages.

    I still have no idea how or why it happened. At least I now know a very tedious fix for the problem.

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