Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Battle of the Office Suites: Microsoft Office and LibreOffice Compared

At 10:02 19/08/2013 +0200, Miroslaw Zalewski wrote:
> On 19/08/2013 at 02:04, Brian Barker wrote:
> > You seem to be disappointed that LibreOffice cannot do something 
> > which it actually achieves very well.
>
> Please do not confuse me with Urmas.

Oh, I didn't, I didn't!  I was answering the paragraph I quoted, 
which was entirely yours.

> > Or did you mean something else?
>
> *I* meant something else. Not sure about Urmas.

Can we forget him, please?

> What I was talking about, is simple use case: I write this sci-fi 
> novel in English. One of characters is named "Valtirix". Since 
> "Valtirix" is not English word (after all, he's from planet 
> "Betighyy"), spell-checker will underline it. But this is valid word 
> in my novel, so I do not want that. I can add it to custom 
> dictionary, fine. But again, I do not want to put "Valtirix" by 
> mistake anywhere in letter to my grandpa. So, in documents other 
> than my novel, I want this word to be underlined, because it is not correct.
>
> What I am talking about, is custom dictionary that might be laid on 
> top of language dictionary and enabled on the fly.

LibreOffice can do all of that, I think.

The quick way - if your novel is a single document - is simply to use 
Ignore All instead of Ignore.  Then all correct spellings of your 
character name will be unmarked anywhere in the document.

Otherwise, you can create a custom dictionary, as you ask:
o Go to Tools | Options... | Language Settings | Writing Aids | 
User-defined dictionaries.
o Click New... and give your new dictionary a name ("Novel"?).
o Tick the box next to your new dictionary to enable it.
Now, as you encounter words you want to be treated as acceptable, use 
right-click | Add > | Novel.dic.  When you write to your grandfather, 
remove the tick from this dictionary.

Note that the choices at Tools | Options... | Language Settings | 
Writing Aids | User-defined dictionaries apply to LibreOffice until 
they are changed.  What you may prefer is to have those settings 
saved *per document*, so your Novel dictionary would apply to your 
novel but not your grandparental correspondence without further 
action - but I don't see that this is possible in LibreOffice.  But 
the Ignore All technique saves the extra words in the document, so 
you do get that advantage with that method.

I trust this helps.

Brian Barker


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