Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 98867
"all languages" option disappeared
Last modified: 2012-06-17 08:43:14 UTC
I do not actually know if this has been voluntarily removed, but in OO 3.0.1, in the linguistic settings dialogs, among the "options" the flag for "all languages", which allowed the automatic spell checking to check words against all languages with installed dictionaries (in my case English and Italian) has DISAPPEARED. This is unfortunate since it was a VERY helpful option in the preparation of bilingual documents (almost the majority in my case). In the help files however, the "all languages" option is still present and explained. I would strongly favour its reinstallment.
Thi has been removed intentionally. See issue 91953 and specification http://specs.openoffice.org/appwide/linguistic/Spelling_and_Grammar.odt
Closed.
I looked into the document you indicated and saw that the elimination of the all languages option was intentional. Probably my limited understanding does not allow me to grasp how to obtain the same result with the new organization of linguistics. If so please could you let me know how to do it? Or otherwise, if this function is actually no more possible, I fail to understand why, since as I noticed before it was really useful. If the latter is the case, please consider if something of the kind would be worth reintroducing. Thanks a lot.
The option conflicts with grammar checking. See explanation at the end of issue 69451.
I have read the completely reasonable explanation of how grammar checking conflicts with the "all languages" option. Still, IMHO things should always be considered from different points of view. I do not doubt a lot of people will appreciate grammar checking functionality: those who write in languages they do not fully master, as well as those who write in a hurry and spend little time perfecting their texts. Personally, writing teaching texts and scientific works, triple proofreading is necessary in any case and no combination of grammar-spell checking can adequately take its place. On the contrary, I very often happen to deal with sentences or clauses where there is a mix of 2 languages: one is the main language there but the other is still necessary because it is commonplace to leave the name of a lot of things in the original language (e.g. institutions, medium sized town and regions, and so on). For these reasons, the ideal configuration would in my opinion be one where: - you can choose if you want grammar check together with spell check or not; - in the former case, the all languages option is not available; - in the latter case, you can choose to have your spell check in 2 or more languages with the all languages option. By the way, while I can see the "grammar" item in the list of check, there is no item of this kind in OO3.0.1 for English or Italian. So I suppose grammar check is coming along but not standard fare yet? Thanks for the attention.
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this was imho a very useful feature for scientific texts where you often have to deal with different languages, with quotations and citations!
I would like to have "in allen sprachen Prüfen" back in the German Oo. I'm teaching in bilingual classes.
I really would like it come back !!!!
*** Issue 107223 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
spell checking becomes semi-manual in mixed-language texts thus useless without "all languages", because each word without properly selected language is treated as misspelled. This issue becomes even worse: - when large part of document is prepared in another editor and pasted to OOo - when OS keyboard input switcher does not support switching locales (switches only layout) - with programs like X Neural Switcher (Linux,FreeBSD), {PuntoSwitcher,Keyboard Ninja,Key Switcher}(Win32) because they only change layout not switching language.
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