Re: [libreoffice-users] Highlighting nouns in LibreOffice Writer?

On Sat, 29 Jul 2017 20:12:01 +0100
Brian Barker <b.m.barker@btinternet.com> dijo:

> At 11:21 29/07/2017 -0700, Csanyi Pál wrote:
> > is there a way to highlight in a text in Writer 
> > just nouns in an English text besides manually 
> > select nouns? I mean is there such a tool to 
> > highlight just nouns with one click? Or can I create a macro for this
> > job?
>
> This may be a more complicated task that you 
> imagine. Many words - in the sense of a 
> particular strings of letters - may exist as 
> words as more than one part of speech. If you 
> detected nouns by looking words up in a 
> dictionary of nouns, you would also catch many 
> occurrences of words that were spelled 
> identically to nouns but were actually serving 
> as, say, verbs or adjectives in your text. 

English speakers can verb anything.

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