Head in the sand regarding spell checking not being a disaster. [closed]
LibreOffice is generally great.
LibreOffice spell checking is generally absolutely terrible and has been since day one in OpenOffice. Please throw it out and start from scratch.
These things happen on a regular basis.
It doesn't hold settings, once you close out of "Writing Aids" options it reverts.
It doesn't work at all out of the box 90% of the time.
It doesn't work unless locale is is what it considers "correct" (usually not actually correct.)
It stops working if language "Language Settings > Languages" is different than " Language Settings > Writing Aids" a lot of the time.
When it doesn't work it doesn't give errors or explain why it's not working.
It actually thinks it is working even when it isn't at all and in turn so does the user. It literally says "The spellcheck is complete". The user then thinks there is no spelling mistakes on there CV, they don't get the job and they die of starvation.
There are countless forum posts all over the internet on this, please stop getting defensive and please start from scratch and fix it.
I'm 32 and I've literally seen this since I was a child. It is the single most consistently semi-broken thing I have seen in computing.
- I like LibreOffice and advocate it to whoever will listen but the spell check system is a disaster, I often leave it on a less than ideal settings because it's the only thing that will work.
I've installed it on.
- Windows XP
- Windows 7
- Windows 8.1
- Windows 10
- Ubuntu
- Xubuntu
- OpenSuse
All have problems with spell checking.
Not being a native speaker of English I had to apply a sense checker to the subject "Head in the sand regarding spell checking not being a disaster." It didn't pass. When I asked translate.google to translate the phrase first to German and then to English again for me I got "Get in the sand, because the spell checker is not a disaster." "Why worry about the spelling then?" was my next thought.
I will continue to check my spelling myself. And stay cool if errors occur.
Lupp, You probably get the idea that burying one's head in the sand means ignoring something bad or dangerous. I think it came from ostriches appearing to bury their heads (it's a myth-they may look like their heads are buried but they are probably turning their eggs). Those translators can certainly get things wrong!
However, the topic is not about ostriches. Or is it? Using figures of speech instead of conveying a clear idea when discussing technical problems is utterly stupid. And it is not only my opinion.