Can anyone tell me what is wrong with LibreOffice?

[Owen Thomas]

Hello Karl.

Your last paragraph provided the procedure that doesn't behave the same for
me. I can type "color" and I get no squiggly underline. I can type "colour"
and get no squiggly underline. I can type "aoeioioehhrgaege" and get no
squiggly underline.

I select Tools -> Language -> For all Text -> English (Australia). Nothing
happens. I try again and notice no tick mark beside what I had just
selected.

I go into Tools -> Spelling and Grammar, and the Spelling dialogue box
appears under another smaller dialogue box telling me that the spellcheck
is complete. I press return to close the smaller dialogue box; the title of
the Spelling dialogue box changes to Spelling: [None] and the Text language
selection box is populated with "[none]". At this point also I observe that
the Text language selection box and gets populated by a single entry:
English (USA). I try to select this entry, but when I try, the selection
does not change.

Something makes me wonder why, after I click Options... from the Spelling
dialogue, three entries appear in the list of User-defined dictionaries:
"standard [all]", "technical [all]", and "IgnoreAllList [all]". I didn't
create these entries, and I cannot make sense about why they are there;
their behaviour while deleting them seems inconsistent.

I hope that is giving you and others a sense of my problem.



On 6 October 2017 at 23:19, Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au> wrote:

> On Fri, 2017-10-06 at 21:50 +1100, Owen Thomas wrote:
> > libreoffice-writer:
> >   Installed: 1:5.1.6~rc2-0ubuntu1~xenial2
>
> I have the same version as you do. I live in Oz, I have several
> dictionaries installed including Australian English. If I open a clean
> document and type "color" it is flagged as a misspelling with a wiggly
> red line underneath it. Same for "humor", "sanitize" and a bunch of
> other americanisms. It also flags outright wrong stuff like "hgft". If
> I instead type "colour", "humour" and "sanitise", there is no wiggly
> red line.
>
> If I change the "Languages" option and make the locale and language
> "English (USA)", the americanisms versions lose the wiggly line and the
> correctly spelled versions :-) gain one. So to me it all seems to be
> working fine. I didn't try going through the Tools menu.
>
> Can you provide a  short procedure that will (on your system) reliably
> demonstrate the problem? And what specific indicator you are using for
> the problem? E.g., "I type 'humor', I expect the word to be flagged
> with a wiggly red underline when I type a space after the final letter
> of the word, but the word does not get flagged."
>
> Regards, K.
>
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