Hi Göran, Richard, all,
Richard/g schreef:
Can someone address this. It seems more a user problem but it is an
important one.
Richard.
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Subject: basic problems with the spellchecking
Date: Monday 13 February 2006 12:08
From: Göran Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello!
If this is the "wrong channel" to tell you something about
problems in OOo spell checking, please just tell me how to do it
right and excuse me disturbing you.
Otherwise here's a description of a - as I think - very basic
problem in your spelling-tool:
I'm from Germany, but write a lot of scientific essays in Swedish.
And my documents are packed with citations in German, English,
Danish, Norwegian, French, while the main text is Swedish.
Up to now I used StarOffice 5.1 and there every document had a
main language (let's say Swedish) and if the English, German etc.
paragraphs (or single words) were shown as misspelled, you could
click "paragraph is English/German/etc" in the spelling context
menu.
I now have installed all languages I need for OOo2.0.1 and found
out about two major problems:
first major problem seems to be about missing features of the
language packs in question: The only languages that give you the
possibility to change the spelling language of a paragraph in
context menu are English (USA) and German - not even French got
this feature.
In contrast to Star Office, OpenOffice.org contains only a few spell
checking word lists by default. The language packs only affect the
language of the GUI and they don't contain additional spell checking
word lists.
However, you can install additional spell checking word lists quite
easily! Try the menu: File - Wizards - Install new word lists.
second major problem seems to be a bug: If your documents main
language is - let's say - German, and you change the language of
the last typed paragraph to English (as this language features
this possibility). Then every following paragraph will be taken as
English, with the effect that every German word is marked as a
mistake. And now you can't change the paragraphs language back to
German, since the context menu doesn't provide that anymore (even
though German in other cases features this possibility).
The normal way to change the language of a section of text is not via
this context menu. It can be changed in the font tab of the character
format dialog (menu Format - Character...). You can also select the
text, right-click, and in the context menu select Character... to open
this dialog.
Also, once you have installed the word lists for the languages you use,
you should again be able to change the language of paragraphs in the way
that you described.
As this language management is really important to my work, I
think, I have to stay with the StarOffice until you publish a
version of OpenOffice that provides these options.
I have to say, that I'm otherwise really impressed by OpenOffice
and really would like to use it in future, because it really has
improved since StarOffice5.
Hope it's okay that I wrote this to you
and hope you think it's worth fixing these problems,
since I'm looking forward to working with OOo2.
Great! I hope that the above suggestions provide a sufficient solution
to the problem.
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Vriendelijke groet,
Simon Brouwer.
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