Can someone address this. It seems more a user problem but it is an important one.
Richard. ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- 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. 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). 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. Thanks & bye, Göran Schmidt -------------------------------------------------------
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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. 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). 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. Thanks & bye, Göran Schmidt |
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