Questions about any program that has some spell-checking functionality in any language.
Questions tagged [spell-checking]
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How to install a LibreOffice Language Tools (Spelling Check, Thesaurus...)
What are the steps to install the Spelling Check and other language supports for LibreOffice. For example spanish, french, italian, etc..
Luis Alvarado
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How to remove all that country-specific dictionaries (like En_AU, En_CA, de_CH, etc)?
After I've installed some language packs and spell checking dictionaries (I'd like to use with Firefox and OpenOffice) I've got tons of language variations installed. This makes very inconvenient to maintain dictionary additions, for example.…
Ivan
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Spellcheck for pdf files
Is there any utility or command on Ubuntu for checking spelling errors in a pdf file? Or a way to integrate spellcheck in Evince?
samarasa
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Change spell check language in WPS Office
I use latest version for Linux (Alpha16 Patch3).
According to official guide:
Installation 1) (from web) Download The Spellcheck Zip Install
Package, e.g.: en-US.zip 2) (from WPS) Review --> Set Spellcheck
Language --> Install, and choose…
janot
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Spell checker not working in Libre Office 5.2
Can anyone tell me how to get the spellchecker working in Libre Office 5.2? I would have thought that this was a basic installation!
duosayso
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What's Ubuntu's default terminal spell checker?
There's a program that comes with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS by default which is run totally in the terminal and will spell check a text file. But I have trouble remembering what the program is called. What is this program, and how do I run it on…
anonymous2
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Can't change libreoffice spell-check language
My system language is German but my text in libreoffice writer gets all underlined because the spell chechking language is set to English USA. Neither can I change it to German there which is also listed nor can I change it via Extras --> Language…
H3R3T1K
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gedit highlight misspelled words for every document by default
Every time I open documents and for every new documents I have to re-enable the spell-checker in gedit.
How can I toggle it to always be on for every document?
Daniel
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How to set new spellchecker language in Pidgin?
I'm using Pidgin and I'm using en_US as default Ubuntu language . But I want to use pt_PT as default spellchecker on Pidgin. How I do that?
Jorge B.
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Gedit "Highlight Misspelled Words" enabled by default
I'm using gedit 3.10.4 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS with the Spell checker enabled. At the moment, I have to enable the "Highlight Misspelled Words" option every time I open a file, even if it is the same file. I would like to have the "Highlight Misspelled…
Xirux Nefer
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Mozilla Thunderbird spellcheck has too many listed languages
When I write an email in Mozilla, the spellcheck shows:
21 entries for Spanish (Cuba, Ecuador, Spain ...)
3 entries for English (Australia, UK, US)
4 entries for French (modern, classic, reform, classic/reform)
Is there a way to make it show up…
gg-79
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How can I contribute to the LibreOffice dictionary?
I always add words to my LibreOffice dictionary (standard.dic), but I would love to make those words available to other users by contributing to the project's dictionaries.
Is there a way LibreOffice can produce statistics about how often a word is…
stragu
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Missing dictionaries for spell-checking with kate and kile
Spell-checking works in Kate and Kile, but only for English texts. It is not possible to select another language and dictionary.
The selection of the dict is available for Kate/Kile at:
Settings -> Configure Kate/Kile... -> Editor Component ->…
Christian
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Remove languages in translations?
I use spell-checker for 4 languages, en, de, fr, and lb.
If I enable Spellchecking and writing aids for en, de or fr in System -> Administration -> Language Support there will be multiple versions of each language available, e.g. en , en_CA, en_GB,…
Pit
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