G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
On Sat, 2005-10-22 at 12:34 +0100, Brian E. Blandford wrote:
G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 09:32 +0100, Brian E. Blandford wrote:
Brian E. Blandford wrote:
Daniel Kasak wrote:
Brian E. Blandford wrote:
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Something curious: although I cannot get any spell checker (even the
default US English) on 2.0 Writer, I have now discovered that in 2.0
Draw, Calc, and Impress, the UK English spell checker works perfectly.
So at least I know the dictionaries really are installed.
I cannot reproduce your problem even using the example from
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=40240
Have you checked your character settings? That is one place that is
language dependent and, if you have none, then I recall no checking is
done.
I've got a solution at last, though it's one I don't understand. My
chosen default font in Writer was Times. But if I change the font to,
say, one of the Bitstream Vera or Nimbus families, the spell checker
works. (The default font in the other components of OOo I had left at
Bitstream Vera) And that seems to be the answer. The spell checker does
not work with Times - which is no great loss as the print quality from
that font is so poor I was thinking of giving it up anyway.
I would be interested to know if there are other fonts the spell-checker
doesn't work with.
Brian B.
Fonts have a language associated with it. Please highlight a word or
character that exhibits the problem, right-click to open the context
menu, select character and have a look at the Font tab > Language
dropdown. What does this say?
It says "English (UK)" and displays the spellcheck icon. As far as I
remember Times is an imported font from a Windows application (aping
Times New Roman) - but it did work fine on 1.1.
I have just done a quick check and have discovered there are quite a
number (but not all) of imported fonts that the spell checker doesn't
work with.
Brian B.
