Libre Office Spell Check

[Colin23erk]

Having a problem with Spell Check in Writer opening but not able to see any errors even deliberate rubbish and reporting spell check  is OK .
Looking on the Web there appears to be an old problem - not loading a Dictionary - with it from Ubuntu and a reported fix that needs an update.
Looking at Synaptic there appears to be several components what is the best way to force an update . Re-installing Libre Writer had no affect
Anybody had the problem and fixed it 

Colin

[riser]

Easiest way is to install the dictionary from the command line

Code:

sudo apt-get install myspell-en-us

If that does not help, try setting the default language in Tools -> Options -> Language Settings -> Languages

riser

[Colin23erk]

Thank You for your suggestions -- Unfortunately they had no effect .
I feel it must be something like the file that stores my user setting that is not reset even if I remove Office completely.

I am setting up  a virgin installation of Lite on the same computer.  I checked that and the spell check works OK.

Colin

[Colin23erk]

Hi - I have fixed mine after reading this Forum

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http://en.libreofficeforum.org/node/3068

#19 Solved!  It is a bug with UI.

Clicked Tools > Language> For all text > Reset to Default.

After making sure all the dependencies were met for spell checking I found this forum and thread, and discovered Post #19 above which worked with the exception that after doing the following:

Step 1.) In the LibreOffice menu bar, select: Tools -> Language -> For All Text -> Reset to Default Language.
No joy. It still didn't work and I had to do the following.
Step 2.) In the
After that step everything worked as expected.

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I tried this solution with no success so I went the whole hog ---

LibreOffice menu bar > Tools -> Language -> For Selection -> Reset to Default Language.
LibreOffice menu bar > Tools -> Language -> For Selection -> English (USA)

LibreOffice menu bar > Tools -> Language -> For Paragraph -> Reset to Default Language.
LibreOffice menu bar > Tools -> Language -> For Paragraph -> English (USA)

LibreOffice menu bar > Tools -> Language -> For All Text -> Reset to Default Language.
LibreOffice menu bar > Tools -> Language -> For All Text -> English (USA)

That worked for me . I then tried messing with different language settings as I want English (UK) but the spell check only works with English (USA) but that's OK for most words . There is no prompt that I need a different dictionary loading
There is a similar problem when installing Lite 2 Final . -- We say setup we want the UK Keyboard but we still get the USA one. - I wonder if its due to to these setting being wrong

Colin

[valtam]

Try sudo apt-get install myspell-en-gb for GB language. Just curious, what is the difference between UK Keyboard and USA Keyboard?

[Colin23erk]

Hi
Thanks for that I tried
sudo apt-get install myspell-en-gb
and after I changed things to UK English spell check worked OK

I thought  I had already tried it but possibly it still needs the settings redoing afterwards

I am not sure of all the differences but the most annoying  for email users is the @ and " are reversed
I think there are some other minor ones that are not used much that are  in different places

Why are they different and also why do we use different spellings like Colour and Color ?
I assume its Historic but it would be helpful to most people who use computers if the powers-that-be could agree to use one common layout and spellings . The only users who would have a minor problem would be touch typists

Colin

[Colin23erk]

Hi again
It would appear that Libre Office needs some sort of error report. If the correct Dictionary loaded it should say so and not just report that Spell Check is Complete with no spelling errors . Ideally it should set up a download script to the correct dictionary .

Colin

[N4RPS]

Hello!

There are several differences between the two keyboards, thus making keyboard coding more important than most people think. For all of them, go here:

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http...=0&ndsp=12

I guess AU and NZ must use US keyboards, not UK, so I guess it IS true - we really HAVE 'Americanized' the world, haven't we? As for an explanation of the reasons for the differences in the two English dialects - all of the 'ors/ours', ters/tres, aluminum/aluminium, etc. - I'm sure there have been MANY books written about THAT...

73 DE N4RPS
Rob

[Colin23erk]

Hi Rob

Thanks for that  .
Just to confuse things even more I have 2 UK netbooks  that are different to each other .
One has the  \  key as in the one shown on the diagram on the page link you supplied and a Samsung that has the  \  to the right of the  / 

I had a look at who invented the typewriter and it was an american who came up with the qwerty layout and was made by Remington but only had 43 keys .
It must have been the addition of the other special keys that introduced the variation we get today which probably depended who manufactured them .

Colin

[N4RPS]

Hello!

Yes, different manufacturers 'play around' with the keyboard layout a bit - especially on laptops and netbooks.

I have a Gateway Tablet PC that switches the locations of the Fn and Ctrl keys, which drives me NUTS whenever I'm using it. As a result, I don't use it much. Additionally, it's as thick as a brick, and twice as heavy...

73 DE N4RPS
Rob