Is there a way to check other plain text files other than change lang mode?

[imaginariateatre]

Only Markdown and Latex are spellchecked by default, but is there a workaround to also check other plain-text files?

I write with VS Code in fountain syntax, which is plain text but formatted to read as a movie script. The file ends ".fountain" and its Language Mode is Fountain. I need that, so I can use BetterFountain, a really helpful extension.

When I want to check the file with ltex, I change the language mode to Markdown, review, and after, change the mode again to keep writing. But it would be great if I could spell check while writing, otherwise the combing over all the "hide false positives" gets really tedious.

Thanks!

[valentjn]

I guess you should be able to use the command LTeX: Check Current Document to trigger a manual check of unsupported documents.

LT_EX will soon have better support for documents of arbitrary file types (i.e., with automatic checking) as there's now also another issue (#277) regarding this.

[valentjn]

@imaginariateatre I noticed LT_EX already supports automatic checking of arbitrary file types. You just have to add the language identifiers (in your case probably "fountain") to ltex.enabled. I changed the description of that setting a bit to better reflect that activation events are not influenced. So in 10.0.0, there's a new command LTeX: Activate Extension, which you can run to activate the extension in case you work with unsupported file types.