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Are we only two people who have this problem with spell checking in French?
Do other people use the French dictionary without problems?
Maurice

I use version 1Beta 7.50 of TexnicCenter (English) with Windows XP (French).
I work in a "French environment": my documents begin with

\documentclass[10pt]{article}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage[frenchb]{babel}
\selectlanguage{frenchb}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{lmodern ...

Not yet !

Good day,
When I try to check the spelling in French all the words with accented characters are underlined. Anything to do to avoid that?
Maurice

Solved by Alain Delmotte

In French one needs to redefine the behavior of ":" and "!".
One solution is to put before the pictex code
\shorthandoff{:} and after \shorthandon{:}
to get back the normal management of ":" in French.
If there is till an error, try with \shorthandoff{:!} \shorthandon{:!}.

Good day,

I'm novice in LaTeX. I use MikTeX and TeXnicCenter.
I have to translate documents from English into French. Figures are drawn with pictex.
The original file compiles well, but as soon as I use the babel package (Frenchb) the compiler reports fatal errors concerning ellipticalarc.
Is that ...