https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143750
--- Comment #2 from Eek! A Bug. Kill it! <[email protected]> --- I did some more experimenting after reading your comments and discovered something very interesting, if not downright odd. I now realize that this issue is, at least in part, due to my unchecking the “Check spelling as you type” option in: Tools > Options… > Language Settings > Writing Aids > Options. NOTE: The same thing can be accomplished by simply turning off the “Toggle Automatic Spell Checking (Shift+F7)” feature in the Standard Menu Bar. (So, why have a duplicate feature with a different, albeit similar, name?) I did this because of the nagging issue LO Writer has of auto-correcting text that is in fact correct as typed; for example, computer code that is not capitalized. Now, one would NOT think that this setting, the “Check spelling as you type” setting, would have anything to do with the issue this bug report was referring to, which is the “Check grammar as you type” setting, but I have just tried numerous times and the grammar (e.g., incorrect capitalization, missing/unpaired quotation marks, and the missing/unpaired parentheses) functions do NOT work unless you also have the “Check spelling as you type” setting checked. That is counterintuitive behavior because spelling and grammar are two completely different subjects, which is why they presumably have two separate check-boxes. Additionally, it makes little sense because there is only a red squiggly underline associated with the “Toggle Automatic Spell Checking” icon in the Standard Menu Bar—not a blue squiggly underline paired with it. Example: I wrote the two sentences below with an extra, or missing, punctuation mark. Note: I had both “Toggle Automatic Spell Checking” and “Check spelling as you type” turned off and the “Check grammar as you type” turned on. LO Writer did NOT detect either grammatical error – not what one would expect after turning the grammar checker on. “Now is the time for all “good men and women” to come to the aid of their country. “Now is the time for all good men (and women)) to come to the aid of their country.” I then clicked the “Toggle Automatic Spell Checking” on the Standard Menu Bar to turn it on and it then instantly detected the missing quotation mark in the first sentence but failed to detect the extra, or unpaired, closing parentheses in the second sentence. That is bizarre because both grammar checking functions use the same checkbox (Parentheses) to invoke both functions (parentheses and quotation marks). On the other hand, if you then turn “Check grammar as you type” off, it does not detect either punctuation error – as expected. The following is a related side note. If you try to check the checkbox for “Check spelling as you type” when the “Toggle Automatic Spell Checking” is NOT selected in the Standard Tool Bar, then when you press “Apply”, the Standard Tool Bar will automatically switch to being selected – but the checkbox for “Check spelling as you type” you just checked will flip back to being unchecked. If you then either close the window, click the “Apply” button a second time, or press “OK”, the two settings will sync back up together. This rather odd behavior is counter-intuitive and unexpected. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
