Hi Maurice, did you download the language pack for en-GB? If not, you could download and install it. You'll find it here: http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/testing/3.3.0-beta3/rpm/x86/LibO_3.3.0_Linux_x86_langpack-rpm_en-GB.tar.gz
So it could then use the British English you're used to. :) 2010/11/30 Maurice Batey <[email protected]> > Many thanks for your response; much appreciated... > > On Tue, 30 Nov 2010 10:10:32 +0100, Sigrid Carrera wrote: > > > The wiggly line indicates the automatic spellcheck (if it is red) or the > > automatic grammar check (if it is blue). > > They are blue - so 'grammar check'. > > > Those checks are done automatically - you can switch it off, if you > > select "no language" for your text. (Mark all your text, go to > > Format Character and there is a drop down list, where you can > > choose "no language"). > > My observations on this: > > (1) Using OpenOffice Writer, these 'view' markings no not appear on > this document. > > (2) I don't understand why e.g. "walking tour" has been > underlined as a possible grammar error. (There is no error adjacent > to the phrase.) > (Perhaps because this LibreOffice is 'US English' rather than > the GB-English that I use? > How can that be a grammar error even in US English?) > I remember one remark from André Schnabel on the German users list, that Language Tool complains about missing articles. So it could be just something like this. > (3) Why is space(s)/tab before the first word of any paragraph > filled with the blue wiggly line? > > I don't want to turn grammar checking off, but the marker lines at > the beginning of every paragraph are distracting... > > Why is LibreOffice doing this when OpenOffice is not? > > OOo does not do it, because it does not come by default with LanguageTool. � > Here is an example (between the 2 "---" lines) representing > the blue marker line with the "~" character here: > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > ~~~~~~~Thanks to Force 8-9 winds in the Western Channel and > Bay of Biscay the first two days were somewhat bumpy > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Sigrid -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] List archive: http://www.libreoffice.org/lists/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
