Actually, the French spell-checker is also good for French (Canada).
I cannot check the files you want me to check because it seems that they
are not included with the email.
However, I did look deeper into the subject, and it appears that babel does
nothing special for French (Canada), and I can get the main adjustment
needed for French (Canada) by using \frenchbsetup{ThinColonSpace=true} in
the preamble. This way, I just set my language to French and everything is
ok.
I just guess that other French-Canadian will have the same problem as I got
if they choose French (Canada) as their language, so maybe you could do
what you suggest: " I can implement that the French spell-checker is also
used for French (Canada)." But note that there are also other variants of
the French language. See the table on pages 5 and 6 of the following
document : http://parokia.kre.hu/lelkesz/latex/babel.pdf
I believe that you could do the same fix for the acadian people, because
they normally write in standard French even though their spoken language is
different.
I notice that there are also variants for English, Greek... However, I
believe that these should be more concerned with text formatting than with
spelling, but I might be wrong.
Thanks a lot.
2013/4/9 LyX Ticket Tracker <t...@lyx.org>
> #8629: Impossible to spell check French-Canadian
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> Reporter: Steph | Owner: stwitt
> Type: defect | Status: new
> Priority: normal | Milestone:
> Component: spell | Version:
> Severity: normal | Resolution:
> Keywords: |
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>
> Comment (by uwestoehr):
>
> You absolutely need to use the document language "French (Canada)"? If so,
> yes, there is no special spell-check dictionary available for this
> language variant. What you can do is to temporarily set the document
> language of your document to French, spell-check and afterwards go back to
> French (Canada). But I guess the clue is that French (Canada) differs
> slightly from French so that the French spell-checker is not very helpful,
> right?
>
> If the French spell-checker is also helpful for French (Canada) I can
> implement that the French spell-checker is also used for French (Canada).
>
> To find this out, could you please use the attached 2 files, put them to
> the same folder where you have the French spell-checker dictionaries (e.g.
> the subfolder "C:\Program Files (x86)\LyX 2.0\Resources\dicts"), restart
> LyX and spell-check some files using the LyX document language French
> (Canada)?
>
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