Custom spelling dictionaries no longer possible in Textpad 9

[FanSince2001]

I am being a little bold with the subject I've put on this topic. I'd be very happy to be contradicted!... but I believe that custom dictionaries are no longer possible once you go to Textpad 9.

Probably "worth" the trouble it saves the developers, so that they can concentrate on more important things.

But I will miss them. Oh well. Progress.

(I've posted this to save the next person a long hunt to not find "you can't have custom dictionaries anymore")

By the way... when I was adding US "English" (oxymoron!) to my system, even after opting out of almost everything, I was force-fed the "Basic Typing" module in addition to the Language Pack. And it took about 25 minutes to download. On a system that downloaded all of LibreOffice (not just the .msi!) in minutes. Don't worry that the download has stalled just because it is going so slowly. Good news: You only have to restart Textpad after the install, not Windows.

[bbadmin]

I can't help you with your download speed, but this post may help with your custom dictionaries:

TextPad 9.8.2 User Dictionary

Essentially, you add words to this file, one per line:

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%APPDATA%\Microsoft\Spelling\en-US\default.dic

[FanSince2001]

Many thanks for the link to how to move words in old dictionaries to the new installation.

I write for two audiences... one in US, one in UK.

I had three user dictionaries... Both, US and UK

Thus I could get "colour" flagged as wrong if writing to US audience, and "color" flagged when writing to UK audience. (Can still achieve this in Textpad 9, of course.)

And I had the Both dictionary always active, so my website's URL (wywtk.com) wasn't flagged in either instance. Now I have to add such words to both of the country-specific dictionaries. Not the end of the world. Oh well. My post was mainly to save people hunting, and as a memorial to the old, nicer (I thought!) system.