Bug 47848 - VIEWING: Spell & grammar check should highlight text just checking in the body of the document
Summary: VIEWING: Spell & grammar check should highlight text just checking in the bod...
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Linguistic (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
Inherited From OOo
Hardware: All All
: medium enhancement
Assignee: Not Assigned
URL:
Whiteboard: BSA
Keywords:
: 95684 (view as bug list)
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Blocks: Spell-Checking
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Reported: 2012-03-25 09:44 UTC by Wyndham Clampett
Modified: 2023-09-13 22:07 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Screenshot showing search failure (191.71 KB, image/jpeg)
2012-03-26 03:11 UTC, Wyndham Clampett
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Description Wyndham Clampett 2012-03-25 09:44:19 UTC
Problem description: 
The set of words shown in the spell check dialog are not highlighted in the document - this makes it difficult, and frustrating, when the rest of the affected sentence or paragraph needs to be reviewed to choose the appropriate correction

Steps to reproduce:
1. Start spell & grammar check
2. Dialog presents an error found with a suggestion
3. ....

Current behavior:
No indication in the body of the document being checked of the section (group of words or sentence) being  referred to in the dialog

Expected behavior:
Shading of the section (group of words or sentence) being  referred to in the dialog. Perhaps a light grey or other light coloured background

Platform (if different from the browser): 
Window 7 Pro 64-bit
              
Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/535.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/17.0.963.65 Safari/535.11
Comment 1 Wyndham Clampett 2012-03-26 03:11:22 UTC
Created attachment 59056 [details]
Screenshot showing search failure
Comment 2 Wyndham Clampett 2012-03-26 03:14:26 UTC
The attached screenshot illustrates a situation where a search for the words shown in the spell check dialog were not found.

I did this after I really needed to see the full context to decide how to correct the error.

A visual search of the visible part of the document was unsuccessful, so I tried to search and as you can see this failed...
Comment 3 Rainer Bielefeld Retired 2012-04-02 22:05:16 UTC
Indeed. Often the shown text contents in the spellcheck dialog is sufficient what correction might be the appropriate one, but sometimes you need more text contents, and its annoying to have to search for the text in the document.

@Wyndham Clampett:
I do not understand your screenshot and the related comment.
Comment 4 Kumāra 2013-09-23 09:57:24 UTC
(In reply to comment #3)
> Indeed. Often the shown text contents in the spellcheck dialog is sufficient
> what correction might be the appropriate one, but sometimes you need more
> text contents, and its annoying to have to search for the text in the
> document.

Yes, yes, yes! You have my vote!

Wonder if making the wavy lines thicker would make a simple good-enough solution. Then again, some people might complain about that!
Comment 5 Buovjaga 2021-04-19 15:11:00 UTC
Design team: I think this would be good to evaluate, how to implement, any other things to consider?
Comment 6 Heiko Tietze 2021-04-20 07:43:53 UTC
Find & Replace highlights results in blue equally to a selection. Probably the easiest solution to implement. A bit weird since you can just select something else and resume spellchecking. But grey doesn't work much better as this looks more like fields.

Scrolling ideally has an animation so the target wont pop-up suddenly. If the sentence goes over two pages it might be tricky to find a good position- would just ignore these corner cases.

LBNL, optionally? Don't see why; maybe if users get annoyed by the scrolling.
Comment 7 Kumāra 2021-04-21 01:09:51 UTC
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #6)
> If the sentence goes over two pages it might be tricky to find a good position-
> would just ignore these corner cases.

A sentence that goes over two pages? That probably needn't be considered.
Comment 8 Heiko Tietze 2021-04-21 08:36:00 UTC
(In reply to Kumāra from comment #7)
> A sentence that goes over two pages? That probably needn't be considered.

Don't mean that a sentence is as long as two pages but the widow part at the end of a page continued at the next. My take is to show the start of the sentence.
Comment 9 Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2023-03-07 21:27:11 UTC
*** Bug 95684 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***