Bookstack: Spell checking in markdown editor

[backwardspy]

We would like to use spell checking, however it does not seem to work in the markdown editor. I have confirmed that the WYSIWYG editor works as intended.

Is it possible to add spell checking for markdown? I realise that this is probably non-trivial, given the formatting of markdown as compared to plain text.

[domainzero]

There is https://github.com/sparksuite/codemirror-spell-checker but I haven't tried to implement it. The Markdown editor uses CodeMirror for the editor portion so this should apply.

[Abijeet]

I spent some time looking into this.

So one problem with that spell checker linked by @domainzero is that it supports only English.

A PR was created to add support for multiple languages here but was never merged.

We could fork that repo, merge that PR and then use the dictionaries maintained here

@ssddanbrown - What do you think?

[Abijeet]

Note there is also another implementation of spellchecker for codemirror here.

Demo - https://codepen.io/anon/pen/veGzWN?editors=1000

[thomasjsn]

Ideally I'd like to use the browser spell checker, as it would support all languages and allow me to use my own added words. This however doesn't work with CodeMirror; discussion here: https://github.com/codemirror/CodeMirror/issues/1017

It's a pretty big drawback to have no spellchecking with the markdown editor, are there other editors can that be integrated which are more browser spellchecker friendly?

[sadger]

Any update on this? Would really like spell check in markdown mode or at least to use my browser spell checker.