Easier way to switch custom dictionaries?

[Offutticus]

I use several custom dictionaries, a different one for each project or series or stand alone. I also work on several projects at once so if each as its own dictionary, I have to remember to switch between them each time I open a document. Not really that big a deal but it causes me to say mean words.

I ask this every few years or so:

• is there a way to assign a document a dictionary and have that dictionary be the one active upon opening that document, despite whatever document is also open or was opened last?
• is there a way to make a toolbar shortcut to the dictionary selection so switching is easier than delving into the options?

[Warwick]

I’m adding my voice to this request as a way to, hopefully, bring it to attention!

As a fiction writer, I have created my own dictionary for the novel I am writing. If all Dictionaries are ticked (via Tools/Options/Language Settings-Writing Aids), the created dictionary is applied to all documents, as is the normal dictionaries to the fiction document.

Instead of having to go into Language Settings every time I open the fiction document, deselecting normal dictionaries so only created dictionary is active for fiction document, and then doing the same process vice versa when changing back, would it be possible to integrate a dictionary toggle in the toolbar as a drop-down menu similar to the font style and size toggles?

Either the above, or designate specific dictionaries to only be active with chosen documents.

If fonts can be selected or deselected at will for each document, then why can’t dictionaries be selected or deselected just as easily?

[robleyd]

Feature requests

[fpy]

@Warwick

voice

→ 90007 – associate a custom spell-check dictionary with some documents and not other docs

could be an extension to provide basic shortcuts → LibreOffice SDK Guide: Chapter 10. The Linguistics API - The Document Foundation Wiki