Well, I must say, I'm a little puzzled myself...

I'm running LO 4.1.1.2, and after reading this mail, I just tried this
myself, thinking it should be easy. And for some reason, almost nothing
I did prevented LO Writer from automatically capitalizing the first
letter of the word "cat" when I typed the space (or enter) after the
word.

Things I tried:

* Turned off the "AutoSpellcheck" button on the toolbar
* Tools | Language | For Selection | None (Do not check spelling)
* Tools | Language | For Paragraph | None (Do not check spelling)
* Tools | Language | For all Text | None (Do not check spelling)
* Tools | Options | Language Settings | Writing Aids | Options | Check
  spelling as you type
* Tools | Options | Language Settings | Writing Aids | Options | Check
  grammar as you type
* Tools | Options | Language Settings | Writing Aids | Available
  language modules -> Unchecked all

What did finally work was:

* Tools | AutoCorrect Options | Options | Capitalize first letter of
  every sentence -> Unchecked [T]

Things this shows me (in no particular order):

* There are too many places that such options can be set. Not only all
  the places I found options to twiddle, but also all the other places
  where I didn't find any relevant options (but still had to look).
* Trying to find any given option is harder than it should be (as a
  consequence of the above).
* It is confusing to the user as to which set of options operates at
  any given time (as a consequence of the above).
* There is no easy way to toggle this behaviour on and off in its
  entirety, you can only do it for options individually.

I think the language settings need an overhaul and consolidation, and
at least a way to toggle it all off and on in one shot, for people that
occasionally need to enter some text that should stay verbatim and
uncorrected.


Just my thoughts.

Paul



On Sun, 17 Aug 2014 09:04:40 -0700 (PDT)
kajdna <[email protected]> wrote:

> *My*
> 
> My gripe with libreoffice are its "stupid" algorithims that
> constantly find false errors in what I type.
> 
> If I type *** as a break between sections I get a bold line
> 
> If I type cat --help
> 
> I get Cat --(dash)help
> 
> Is there ONE place where I can turn off ALL automatic overrides?
> 
> If I can't type what I want to type, libreoffice is a deal-breaker. I
> have carefully searched all menus.
> 
> 
> 
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> 


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