> I can see how to set the language to "[None]" in OpenOffice, but not
to "Unknown".
Indeed. I am not able to set it back to unknown now that I've changed it.
> I'm guessing that you originally pasted this text into an OpenOffice
document from some other application.
This is surely what happened. The original was either Notepad or Wordpad
- neither of which have language features.
>> A few usability issues there.
> But not, I suggest, when you have fully learned to use the product.
True. Although part of the definition of usability is that a product's
basic features should support new users.
D.
On 2019-09-18 12:38 p.m., Brian Barker wrote:
At 12:09 18/09/2019 -0400, Dave Collins wrote:
Thanks. The language was the problem. I didn't realize that it
defaulted to 'unknown' ...
I don't think it does. Indeed, I can see how to set the language to
"[None]" in OpenOffice, but not to "Unknown". So I'm guessing that you
originally pasted this text into an OpenOffice document from some
other application. As previously explained, this will, by default,
carry over some properties, including not only language but also font,
font size, font colour, etc. The designers must have thought that this
was generally useful; I think I agree. You can avoid it by using Paste
Special or by resetting the properties afterwards. (If you are not
familiar with Paste Special, I strongly recommend becoming so.)
If you type fresh text, it should - depending on context - take on
either the language marked for the surrounding text or else your
default language, as set at Tools | Options... | Language Settings |
Languages | Default languages for documents.
... (what does that do? Is it able to find some errors? Or none? <
rhetorical question).
The [None] language setting in OpenOffice disables spelling checking
(as well as thesaurus use) for that text. This can be useful to
prevent false positives if you have text that doesn't follow the
general language of your document - perhaps a quotation in another
language for which you do not have a spelling dictionary installed, or
from Shakespeare in the original spellings, mathematical formulae, or
whatever.
A few usability issues there.
But not, I suggest, when you have fully learned to use the product.
Once I set it to English it found them. Noted for future reference.
Good-oh!
Brian Barker
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