Spell check in Quanta

**cga** · 01-13-2002, 04:33 PM

Spell check is not working in Quanta. Is there some trick I need to know? It works in Kate and Advanced Editor (which is the editor Quanta uses). ??? ???

I am missing something?

01-13-2002, 04:35 PM

isn't Quanta for programming? and if so, why the hell would u need a spell checker in it?

**cga** · 01-13-2002, 04:55 PM

isn't Quanta for programming? *and if so, why the hell would u need a spell checker in it?

Its for HTML and web development. My web sites are almost 100% text and include essays. I was thinking that I might as well write the essay contents in the web editor as oppossed to writing them in a seperate text editor and then importing them into Quanta. I can do that, of course, but I figured since there is a spell check button on the toolbar in Quanta it might save a step.

01-13-2002, 04:58 PM

oh ok, i thought quanta was another C++ IDE like kdevelop

**Feztaa** · 01-13-2002, 06:47 PM

run your html docs through ispell, then tell it to ignore the HTML tags that it finds.

**cga** · 01-13-2002, 09:09 PM

Well, when I run spell check in Kate on an HTML doc it invokes ispell and automagicly knows to ignore the HTML tags.

Honestly, I think I prefer writing HTML by hand in a text editor. Quanta seems kind of clunky to me, though I've only fiddled with it a bit today. Guess, too, it depends on what kind of code you need to make. Mine is very, very simple HTML that is just faster to write by hand.

**Feztaa** · 01-13-2002, 11:36 PM

Trust me, all the best websites were written by hand. Nothing good ever came of a WYSIWYG HTML editor

**Compunuts** · 01-25-2002, 01:20 AM

Quanta is not really a WYSIWYG editor. It's mostly the text editor style but have form and CSS creation area. It greatly improved the designing of the web pages.

To answer original answer, I don't think you can do spell checking with Quanta. ( or at least that I havent' found them yet ). I will look for it when I have a chance.