I am having problems using LT (ver. 3.7) with OpenOffice (ver 4.1)
on Mac OS X 10.9.5. The input is the txt file with contents:
Jack went up up the hill. However Jane went down.
I choose LT to check the document. A pop-up window with “LT” appears
and catches the first error “up up”. I click “Ignore once”. Then
a small pop-up window (with no “LT”) appears with the message
“Spelling check is complete”. Thus the check skips the LT suggested
change to “However,”, and may go to only spell-check.
I have searched the LT forum, but could not find a relevant article.
I don’t have OpenOffice installed, but I cannot reproduce this with LibreOffice 5.1. It might be a bug in OpenOffice. Are you sure you don’t have disabled some rules?
I have installed both OpenOffice 4.1.3, LibreOffice 5.3.2.2
and LT 3.7 on both. The behavior is the same.
The basic problem seems to be that when I try to
do a LT grammer check by choosing
Tools/LanguageTool/Check Text
OO and LO both start their OO or LO grammar check pop-up
rather than the LT pop-up.
I tried reinstalling LanguageTool-3.7.oxt, reinstalling Java, and
the (often) sovereign cure of a reboot. These did not fix the
problem. Probably I should delete then reinstall everything
related to OpenOffice or LibreOffice.
Meanwhile, I have switched to using the browser/html version of LT. This
work well, although a pdf version would be even better since
my final output is in pdf.
LibreOffice comes with its own integrated grammar checker (LightProof) which disables LanguageTool for English and Russian. Use Options → Language Settings → Writing aids → Edit… to disable LightProof and enable LanguageTool for the language you are working with to make LanguageTool work.