LibreOffice – How to Install Language Tools (Spelling Check, Thesaurus)

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What are the steps to install the Spelling Check and other language supports for LibreOffice. For example spanish, french, italian, etc..

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This is apparently managed at the system level. Go to the Language Support menu in the System Settings menu and add the languages you want to support. After that restart LibreOffice and you will see that the spellchecker for example will give you the option of using the newly installed languages.

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Don't know about Libreoffice (it should be almost the same as OO) but I can suggest you a tool for global language autospelling. It is called Xneur - the same as PuntoSwitcher for windows.

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This is not a solution, but an attempt to bring some light on the topic.

There does not exist as many dictionaries for spellchecking as the number of options showed. If you for example run the command

ls /usr/share/hunspell

you see that the folder includes quite a few symlinks. Those symlinks have been installed by the various packages which install the dictionaries, and I suppose the reason is that the applications should be able to find a suitable dictionary based on the current locale (the value of the LANG variable).

It would be possible to limit the number of variants by deleting symlinks in the just mentioned folder and some other related folders. But it's indeed not a good idea, since they will be reinstalled next time respective package is updated.

I don't think there is an easy solution to this issue.

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