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
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected]
For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
