[Tex/LaTex] TexMaker is not detecting spelling errors for texts copied from another source

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I am using TexMaker on my Mac. I have been using it for years. But I always realize that when I copy texts from another source (e.g. Word documents), it doesn't check the spelling errors for these specific texts.

Any idea why this is happening, and how to fix this problem.
FYI: I have a spelling dictionary (en.GB) file already in my Preference.

Thanks in advance!

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Not sure if you have found the answer, but I had a similar problem.

I went to Tools > Options > Language Tab > and then checked Use background spell-checking and my spell check came to life within the document.

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[Tex/LaTex] texmaker 3.5 miktex portable 2.9 and epstopdf

After (re-)installation of MiKTeX portable and some try&error I found out, that the real answer is … RTFM:

Excerpt from the epstopdf manual:

Note: Usually the conversion program needs the exact location of the image ﬁle. Usually the current directory works. Also if the image ﬁle is found using \graphicspath, the location is known. However, if the image is somewhere in a directory of environment variable TEXINPUTS, then the package does not know the exact location and the conversion program will not ﬁnd the image ﬁle unless it implements a search using TEXINPUTS (program kpsewhich may be of help in this task).

So, you have the choice between following 3 possibilities:

To the call of pdflatex add the commandline switch --include-directory="G:\LaTeX\sandbox" (Attention! No closing backslash here, or, if the path is without white space, leave out the double quote marks), but included inside of TeXMaker it’s not portable.

Add the command \graphicspath to your TeX file. In a test I had to use slashes instead of the usually in Windows used backslashes. That’s also not portable, but you can easily change it, before you do a new compiling.

\documentclass[10pt,a4paper]{article} 
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} 
\usepackage{graphicx} 
\graphicspath={{G:/LaTeX/sandbox/}}
\usepackage{epstopdf} 
\begin{document} 
\includegraphics[scale=1]{test.eps} 
\end{document}

What I would favour:
Similar as I already pointed out in Using MikTex Portable, TexMaker, and Asymptote from a USB drive – edit the start file miktex-portable.cmd (make a safety copy first) and add the system variable TEXINPUTS. Note: The way it’s shown here, it works only, if the TEXINPUTS directory is on the same drive as the portable MiKTeX installation, and as far as I see, it’s the only portable way.

@echo off set MOBIDRIVE=%~d0 set TEXINPUTS=%MOBIDRIVE%\LaTeX\sandbox set PATH=%TEXINPUTS%;%PATH% miktex\bin\miktex-taskbar-icon.exe

Then you can (and should!) use the command line prompt, that you get with right click on the traybar icon. The command line compilation worked fine here in a test. Start TeXMaker from this command prompt or add a line

start /i /d%MOBIDRIVE%\<path-to-texmaker> texmaker.exe

before the above miktex\bin\miktex-taskbar-icon.exe or create an own startbatch file with the variable TEXINPUTS.

Remark: After I’ve done a test with TeXMaker portable (BTW: that’s actually not fully true!), that I had to download first, I must say, that obviously with TeXMaker this approach of point 3 didn’t work! Only with the \graphicspath version or, if the EPS file was in the same directory like the TEX file, I’ve got a result. (Remark 2: I used some example files of Ghostscript and the example folder as graphics path, everything was on the same drive.)

I leave the not functioning point here, because wieschoo’s answer refers to it.

[Tex/LaTex] TeXMaker shows errors after compilation for deleted lines

I think your issue is determined by your old auxiliary files.

In TeXMaker, go to the "Tools" menu and launch the command "Clean".

This deletes (more or less) all auxiliary files generated by the compiler (.aux, .bbl and so on).

Now try to compile your document again. You shouldn't get all those errors, but only the ones related to the document you are actually dealing with.

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