Spell checker for FT

FoldingText
1

Taskpaper has spell checking. Why not FoldingText?

2

FoldingText does have spellcheck. See:

  • Edit > Spelling

But it’s true that FoldingText’s spell check (and some other text editing features) don’t match the OS X standard behavior. The reason for this is that FoldingText’s interface is implemented using HTML/DOM (web technologies) while TaskPaper’s UI is implemented using the OS X native text component (NSTextView).

There are a number of tradeoffs on both sides. Generally:

  • FoldingText’s text editor is more flexible and styleable, but much harder (or impossible in some cases to integrate with native OS X text features).

  • TaskPaper’s text editor is a bit less flexible and styleable, but we get all the native text features for free.

3

Thanks for the explanation.

4

therefore do you suggest to use TP even for writing long texts?

5

I think some people do use TaskPaper for writing long texts, so yes give it a try if you think TaskPaper’s organizational features will help you write. With that said TaskPaper isn’t designed as a long form writing tool, so I’m not sure that I would “suggest” people use it for that purpose, but you certainly could.