ANN: LanguageTool 6.4

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Hi, LanguageTool 6.4 has been released and can now be downloaded here. It includes error detection rule updates for Asturian, Catalan, Dutch, English, French, German, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, and Ukrainian.

Checksums (sha256):

d5d517335d1ca33f33412920447fa0c742ef78d645521d650e0e22628fe0d3bd  LanguageTool-6.4.zip
0f1f39ff2438d322f15962f1d30a5c293bb121a7f709c7bbdc1099636b91625e  LanguageTool-6.4.oxt

Please note: The LibreOffice/OpenOffice add-on is now available here.

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Has anyone found any bugs in the LibreOffice extension?

For testing, I recommend the following procedure if the LibreOffice internal LanguageTool access via server was previously installed:

  1. Uninstall the old LibreOffice extension (if any) → restart LibreOffice.
  2. Disable internal LanguageTool access via server → restart LibreOffice.
  3. Install the extension → restart LibreOffice.

The extension should then work without errors.

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I’ve now renamed the LibreOffice add-on from beta to LanguageTool-6.4.oxt (it’s still the same file). @Fred.Kruse Please remind me in a few days to update the XML files that activates updating from within the LO extension manager (assuming no issues show up).

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I’ve just updated to oxt 6.4. One problem I found is hierarchical styles:
I have a style “base_uk” (lang: uk) and child style “base_none” (lang: none).
With ‘Automatic spell checking’ on I can see the wrong word is ignored properly. But when I press F7 the LT dialog suggests it’s a spelling error:

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When will be LT 6.4 published on mavencentral?

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Seems I made a mistake in the release process. But it should be available soon (i.e. in a few hours).

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This is a problem in the check dialog in LT 6.4. The language is set for the entire paragraph. For 6.5, the word-by-word consideration of the language is an improvement that I will include in my planning.

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The problem should be solved. Please test the snapshot tomorrow.

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I’ve installed oxt 6.5-SNAPSHOT, opened big document and pressed F7 - the check is taking a while, so I opened a new blank document and got an exception right away:
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Another issue:
I opened bit document (2500 pages) and waited for spell check to complete, then opened a small one (13 pages). And then changed the language on one of the styles in the small document.
Both windows got ‘busy’ for about 30 seconds. I wonder if on that style change in a small document the big one was rechecked as well.
UPDATE: never mind, it looks like even with just a small doc (13 pages, 6k words) it takes about 30 s for a check.

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That seems to be working properly now, thank you!!